The massive Museu Colecção Berardo exterior in blocks with offices and museums to created agarden within a garden feeling to the space.
The presentation of the Berardo Collection Museum offers an overview, a panorama of the creation of plastic arts in the twentieth century and the beginning of the XXI century, particularly in European and American art. Reflecting all the richness of the history, styles, origins mediums and techniques of the works from the collection, and provides a journey through the modern and contemporary Portuguese artistic creation, focusing on its originality and the place it occupies on the international scene.
The Berardo Collection Museum offers visitors not only the richness of its permanent collection through a route regularly renewed, but also a wide range of temporary exhibitions that allow, a broadening of the scope of the collection and deepen certain problematic topics or approaches.
In 2009 the Museum carrys on this mission by presenting a series of temporary exhibitions, of which are highlighted in the second trimester, the Universal File - Document and Photographic Utopia, the first exhibition in Portugal of the Austrian artist Peter Kogler, a retrospective of the Portuguese architect Amâncio "Pancho" Guedes, another edition of PHotoEspaña and two shows of the Berardo Collection - a new path for modern and contemporary art, and an exhibition dedicated to the Art-Deco Collection.
Until the end of the year, the exibition Amália, will be Highlighted, the first major show devoted to one of the greatest players of Portuguese culture, in the year that will mark ten years since her death.
The Berardo Collection Museum offers visitors not only the richness of its permanent collection through a route regularly renewed, but also a wide range of temporary exhibitions that allow, a broadening of the scope of the collection and deepen certain problematic topics or approaches.
In 2009 the Museum carrys on this mission by presenting a series of temporary exhibitions, of which are highlighted in the second trimester, the Universal File - Document and Photographic Utopia, the first exhibition in Portugal of the Austrian artist Peter Kogler, a retrospective of the Portuguese architect Amâncio "Pancho" Guedes, another edition of PHotoEspaña and two shows of the Berardo Collection - a new path for modern and contemporary art, and an exhibition dedicated to the Art-Deco Collection.
Until the end of the year, the exibition Amália, will be Highlighted, the first major show devoted to one of the greatest players of Portuguese culture, in the year that will mark ten years since her death.
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If it is curiosity that stimulates the mind and induces the collector, the object of art he chooses out of his passion cannot be isolated from the expectations of a certain time, or of other people. In a way, the collector searches and brings together works of art that others would like to find and gather. Most of the time without knowing it, the collector turns other people’s dreams into reality. It is the relationship between one’s dreams and those of others that determines the destiny of any collection and ensures its place in the community.
The Berardo Collection is the result of an exercise in open-mindedness. We have made an effort to acquire works, which would illustrate, through their quality, the creative imagination of the artists. We do not accept any kind of limitation regarding movements, techniques or nationalities. On the contrary, we wish to keep these Collections open to the future and open to the public. Nevertheless visiting this site does not replace true contact with the work of art.
The site is an approximate illustration of the Collections - new artworks are being added - to remind people, and also myself that artistic creation is the human condition in its freer form. In the last three decades, friends, collaborators, consultants and writers have helped me collect these works of art following rigorous criteria.
I hope this Collection will inspire other Institutions and individuals to create and broaden collections, so that the coming generations may keep alive our days, our concerns, and our hopes through Art.
Joe Berardo
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