The Siza Baroque Programme opens with a lecture given by Eduardo Souto de Moura and will run throughout the year, with the participation of the project’s researchers and consultants. The programme also includes an exhibition at Soares dos Reis National Museum and a closing concert, with a ‘baroque-contemporary’ composition (like Siza’s work), at Nasoni’s Church of Clérigos.
The Siza Barroco research project is in its final phase.
The results of the research were intended to be disseminated to a wide audience through a diversified programme open to the granite city, according to Siza, “of ‘old gold’ or ‘blue’.”
The connections between Álvaro Siza’s architecture and the Baroque are present in various authors who have written about Siza, as well as when referring to Porto and Nasoni, in his written texts, Siza announces his interest and commitment to learning from the Baroque architecture and city.
The research followed a natural path, conscious that placing the idea of the Baroque and Álvaro Siza’s architecture side by side would bring gains in knowledge to both parts.
If, on the one hand, Siza’s architecture is better understood in the light of the Baroque (ideological), the Baroque (chronological) is also more intelligible with Siza’s work.
This programme includes a series of events that cross and intersect Siza’s architecture, Nasoni’s architecture, the gilded wood carving, Baroque-contemporary music, etc.
On 20 April, at the National Museum Soares dos Reis, Eduardo Souto de Moura will talk about “A Actualidade do Barroco” (The Actuality of the Baroque), a repetition (which, as Siza warns, is never a repeat) of a lecture given in May 2015, closing the Clérigos Conference cycle.
This will be followed by talks by Ángel Garcia-Posada, Juan José Lahuerta, and Maria Filomena Molder, consultants for the Siza Baroque research project, with contributions from other disciplines.
The Siza Baroque exhibition opens on 12 September and runs until 31 December at the National Museum Soares dos Reis, side by side with its Collection and Fernando Távora’s project for the museum.
In addition to the second series of conferences and the colloquium, which brings together the project’s researchers, to mark its conclusion, in December, the programme also offers us a concert – a celebratory event in a symbolic architectural site such as the Clérigos Church – based on the ‘baroque-contemporary’ work, Magnificat em talha dourada, by Eurico Carrapatoso.
This contemporary author, like Siza, composes by establishing strong links with history, particularly the Baroque (Bach!), a common creative process that we endeavour to bring to light and pursue in our idea of architectural research and, in particular, in this project.
It will take place on 14th December at the Clérigos Church.
“The tower of the Clérigos will erupt against the almost illuminated penumbra of the sky, a dove-colored straw,” anticipates Siza.
CONFERENCES I
20th April (saturday), 16h00, Eduardo Souto de Moura
A Actualidade do Barroco
04 de Maio (sábado), 16h00, Ángel Garcia-Posada
O Projecto Contínuo. Fundos e Figuras
18th May (saturday), 16h00, Juan José Lahuerta
A Arte na Época do inferno
22nd Juin (saturday), 16h00, Maria Filomena Molder
Sem título
SIZA BAROQUE EXHIBITION
Soares dos Reis National Museum, 12th September to 31st December
12th September (thursday), 18h00
Opening
CONFERENCES II
28th September (saturday), 11h00-18h00
11h00 | Siza e o Barroco
José Miguel Rodrigues e Joana Couceiro
14h30 | Siza e o Moderno
Ana Tostões
16h00 | Siza e o Pós-moderno
Jorge Figueira
17h00 | Final debate
José Miguel Rodrigues, Joana Couceiro, Ana Tostões e Jorge Figueira
Sílvia Ramos (Moderation)
COLLOQUIUM
7th December (saturday), 10h00-18h00
Betão, Branco, Dourado
Presentations by:
Sílvia Ramos
Miguel Araújo
Mariana Sá
Ricardo Leitão
Inês Sanz Pinto
Mafalda Lucas
Graça Correia
Hélder Casal Ribeiro
João Pedro Serôdio
Luís Urbano
Marco Ginoulhiac
Nuno Brandão Costa
João Pedro Xavier
Susana Ventura
(Titles to be announced)
CONCERT
14th December (saturday), 21h30, Clérigos Church
Magnificat em Talha Dourada (Ó meu menino)
For Álvaro Siza
and in memoriam to José Quintão and Juan Luis Trillo
Composition by Eurico Carrapatoso
(URTEXT version)
Soprano Angélica Neto
Grupo Vocal Olisipo
Art Direction by Armando Possante
This programme may be subject to eventual changes.
Scientific Research and Technological Development Project on the Architecture of Álvaro Siza Vieira FCT: SIZA/CPT/0021/2019
Funded by:
FCT, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education; Ministry of Culture; FAUP; CEAU.
Supported by:
Soares dos Reis National Museum; Serralves Foundation; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; CCA; Drawing Matter; Casa da Arquitectura; Irmandade dos Clérigos and Conservatório de Música do Porto.