Perspectiva: colecionador : da coleção privada à exposição pública

• Autor(a) principal: Salgueiro, Mariana, 1992-
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/30855
• topic: Objecto; Coleccionismo; Coleção Paulo Lopo; Colecções privadas; Curadoria; Crítica, Curadoria e Teorias da Arte

This dissertation focused on a practical context study of private collections of art and the possibility of their public exhibition. This paper aims to discuss some of the essential issues regarding this activity that, even if essentially private, may have objectives such as public exposure. To fulfill such an aim, a first moment of theoretical study of collections will approach the notion of object which, in turn, will lead to an initial and basic definition of collection as a set of objects. By extending on this definition, one can reach the defining and limiting ideas of concept of collection such as the valuation of the collectible object and the selection criterion. The reasons for collecting will be approached through the collector’s perspective and under the notions of private and public dimension of a collection. Reflecting upon the relationship between museums and collectors will lead to the analysis of some examples of private collection that were publicly exhibited, in Portugal. The second part of this dissertation will be devoted to the theme of publicly exhibiting private collections and the presentation of Paulo Lopo’s collection. After a detailed examination of his collection and a characterization of Paulo Lopo as a collector (based on the theoretical knowledge introduced in the first part and exploited in further detail on the second part of the paper), the practical study of the exhibiting of a private collection will start. In order to do so, the three exhibitions that exhibited the collection of Paulo Lopo and which comprised the ‘Perspetiva: Colecionador’s’ exhibition cycle will be described. The exhibition of this collection allowed the creation of various narratives, ranging from a narrative concern with a temporal notion of the collector’s selection to the migrations theme – and all of this based on the artworks Paulo Lopo and his wife collected of the years. Most of the set of artworks presented were examples of Portuguese art. Nevertheless, it also included artists with a special relationship to the Portuguese art scene and which, for that reason, are relevant to Portugal’s Art History. The exhibition cycle was shown in Idanha-a-Nova’s municipality (Portugal) and Strasbourg (France). The practical side of this project and its curatorial plan highlighted how the collection’s narrative – narrative that is essential for a collection’s definition – may be different in a private, domestic, and quotidian setting and in a public situation. A public context which always implies being in exhibition, open to another’s opinion, such as the curator, the critic or the public itself