The work of painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992) will be exhibited at the Guggenheim museums in Venice, Italy, and Bilbao, Spain, in 2025, the president of the Arpad Szenes Foundation revealed to Lusa yesterday - Vieira da Silva.
These exhibitions are part of an internationalization program that is underway for the next three years, and which involves several partnerships with cultural institutions and experts in the painter's work, from Portugal, Brazil, France, the United States and Morocco, among others.
"These are exhibitions being prepared for the coming years, which will represent a great effort to internationalize the artist's work and Portuguese culture", highlighted the president of the Arpad Szenes Foundation - Vieira da Silva (FASVS), António Gomes de Pinho.
"We are also preparing a presence of Vieira da Silva in the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Galeria Jean Boucher, in Paris, the artist's gallery for more than 50 years, collaborating with the Luso-American Foundation for Development on a project in New York, and, with a Brazilian specialist in the painter's work, we are preparing a project in Brazil", for an exhibition in a museum yet to be defined.
In Lisbon, the exhibition "A Nós a Liberdade", inspired by the designation of a series of paintings from 1934, "À Nous la Liberté", with 31 works by the artist, continues until July 26th, at the parliament in Lisbon. some never or rarely seen in Portugal, held to mark the 50th anniversary of April 25, 1974.