CkS artport

Por António Cerveira Pinto (a.k.a. António Maria) Quando hoje pensamos no militarismo prussiano de Bismarck, no que foram as devastadoras I Guerra Mundial e Revolução Russa, nos primeiros anos (1919-1923) e últimos (1929-1933) da República de Weimar (1919-1933), anos de hiperinflação, caos, falências, bichas para o pão, vagabundagem e casinos abarrotados de porcos capitalistas, prostitutas [...]

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By António Cerveira Pinto (a.k.a. António Maria) This belongs to my modified genetic code Twist and Shout I Saw Her Standing There Love Me Do A Hard Day’s Night Help Yesterday Michelle Girl Eleanor Rigby Yellow Submarine Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band With a Little Help From My Friends Lucy in the Sky with [...]

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By António Cerveira Pinto (a.k.a. António Maria) NEW MUSEUM / NEW COMMISSIONS Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq As part of the Three Museum Project, the New Museum and Creative Time present It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, a new commission by British artist Jeremy Deller. In an effort [...]

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By Nuno Sacramento Shadow Curator ACP: I think your text is good but what I am missing is a pragmatic approach (proposed below) and a more structured manifesto. I think we should start by describing the current situation in artistic and economical terms, then propose what we think is the way forward, through quite practical [...]

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António Cerveira Pinto (a.k.a. António Maria) Art must evolve to a new collaborative and responsive “techne”. Museums should be more socially oriented to local and global communities. The present financial and economic meltdown arrived a bit earlier than I could foretell back to November 2005 (1), when I first mentioned the idea of transforming so-called [...]

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António Cerveira Pinto (a.k.a. António Maria) Notas para uma mesa redonda no Museu do Neorealismo, Vila Franca de Xira I Um dos principais espinhos de uma abordagem das relações entre arte e política deriva da complexidade crescente de ambos os termos da relação. A arte tornou-se um universo distante, especulativo (leia-se corrupto) e complexo. A [...]

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T. Behrens The decision to write this piece in Spanish, not in English, has shown me a way to begin it. I’ve got no memory of having drawn or painted as a little boy, but I do remember my first Latin lessons. My parents sent me – I can’t think why, since I was only [...]

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A CONVERSATION WITH T. BEHRENS [1] 1. António Cerveira Pinto (ACP) – what does the following list [2] means to you? SCHOOL OF LONDON ARTISTS Michael Andrews (1928-1995) Frank Auerbach (1931) Francis Bacon (1909-1992) Lucian Freud (1922) R. B. Kitaj (1932) Leon Kossoff (1926) T. Behrens (TB) – It means friends I don’t see any [...]

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António Cerveira Pinto (a.k.a. António Maria) Sobre uma retrospectiva necessária (1) I Ninguém é obrigado a ficar na História. Mas também não é fácil excluir alguém dessa mesma História, só porque a historiografia e aquilo a que se convencionou chamar curadoria, se deixaram distrair ou foram distraídas pela lógica do dia a dia. Sabemos que [...]

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António Cerveira Pinto (a.k.a. António Maria) I Nobody is forced to remain in “history”. But nor is it easy to exclude someone from that same “history”, only because historiography and what has conventionally become known as ‘curatorship’ have allowed themselves to be distracted, or were in fact distracted, by the logic of everyday life. We [...]

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