Agenda Detail

This exhibition marks the Centenary of the Birth of Fernando Lemos (Lisbon, 3 May 1926 – São Paulo, 17 December 2019), a key figure in 20^th-century Portuguese art, whose work transcends geographical borders, artistic languages, and fields of thought.
Just another Portuguese man in search of something better was the wry and lucid way in which he himself summed up his personal and artistic path: I was a student, locksmith, carpenter, upholsterer, lithographic printer, draughtsman, advertising professional, teacher, painter, photographer, harmonica player, emigrant, exile, museum director, adviser to ministers, researcher, journalist, poet, jury member, art galleries adviser, curator of international events, designer of industrial trade fairs, set designer, father of several children, grant recipient, and I have two homelands: one that made me and another that I’m helping to make. As you can see, I am just another Portuguese man in search of something better.
In the year of Fernando Lemos’s Centenary, the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation — an institution with which the artist maintained a deep and continuous relationship — presents this exhibition as a gesture of homage and active remembrance. As we know, “to live is to be remembered”, and these images continue to stare at us with the same intensity and urgency.