Fernando Lemos e o surrealismo

O Menino Imperativo do Vespeira, 1949/52-05
(© Fernando Lemos)

Andava de um lado para outro a compilar informação sobre Fernando Lemos e dei de caras com um filme sobre o artista, captado por ocasião da exposição Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo, no antigo Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sintra.
Não era preciso dizer, mas garanto-vos que vale bem a pena esperar uns minutos até as imagens carregarem até ao fim. O filme foi feito por Pedro Aguilar e Pedro Almeida.

Sérgio B. Gomes

Para ver o filme clique aqui.

Pôr do Sol e Alvorada, 1949/52-05
(© Fernando Lemos)

Fernando Lemos and Surrealism exhibition held at the Sintra Museum of Modern Art - Berardo Collection in November of 2005.


The exhibition, Fernando Lemos and Surrealism, included an important selection of works from international Surrealism, as well as a series of pieces by major Portuguese artists, thus accomplishing the collector’s main objective.

When José Berardo began this collection of modern art, he was full of intention and desires. His passion for art and the possibility of sharing its enjoyment with the public at large joined his founding dream of giving Portuguese artists the opportunity of exhibiting their works side by side with major international masters.

Fernando Lemos, an active participant of the surrealist movement in Portugal, is author of a series of photographs, created between 1949 and 1952, before his Brazilian exile, which have since gained a place in Art History as major examples of the surrealist aesthetics. The recent incorporation of these pieces in the Berardo Collection aims at complementing our overview of Surrealism with the work of this extraordinary artist, who is fully the equal, in terms of quality and innovation, of the great names of universal art.

This led to two exhibitions, shown for the first at the Sintra Museum of Modern Art – Berardo Collection in November of 2005, which combined several strands of surrealist thought to divulge the history of this movement and its protagonists. Then later exhibited at the colossal Centro das Casa das Mudas, recently built on Madeira Island.

These exhibitions were an opportunity to bring the work of Fernando Lemos into dialogue with other Portuguese and foreign artists, one of the main objectives of the Berardo Collection. Thus presented for the first time were some of the most famous Surrealist artists – Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miró, André Masson, Matta, in “open conversation” with Portuguese Surrealists like Mário Cesariny, Cruzeiro Seixas, Mário-Henrique Leiria and many others.