Dates / Schedules
10 September 2021 Starting at 5pm
11 September 2021 Starting at 3pm
Small Auditorium CCB Free admission
Documentary
Lecture
From 1992 to 1996, over four seasons, Portuguese architecture was a regular presence on the small screen and earned enthusiastic attention from the press – owing to architect Manuel Graça Dias (1953-2019), who brightened up our cultural landscape with his cheerful tone, enthusiasm, and irreverence. Throughout the four-year run of Ver Artes Graça Dias interviewed architects, showed all manner of buildings, discussed cities, brought veritable masterpieces to the public’s attention, and all in all threw ideas and concepts on the table at a time when Portuguese architecture was at a peak – Álvaro Siza already a household name, yet Chiado still a ruin. Graça Dias’s documentary-style show Ver Artes brought architecture to the small screen as an everyday-life topic, with aluminium framing, Lisbon nightlife, the minute specificities of stone-cutting, the garishness of neon, city traffic, and the three-dimensional language of buildings all tossed together in the same bag. In the intervening decades the world has changed, but more than a wistful look at the tail-end of the 20th century, Graça Dias’s short documentaries produced for TV offer us insight on how language and the skill to communicate are crucial to affect our ongoing perception of the world.
Programme
From the archives of RTP [the Portuguese public broadcasting corporation] Centro Cultural de Belém/Garagem Sul will now present twenty-one episodes of Graça Dias’s Ver Artes in a two-day screening divided in seven parts, featuring talks with guests who selected the episodes and will present them to the public. The screening will be held on the Small Auditorium of CCB and admission is free.
Friday, 10 de September 2021
5pm Alexandra Areia (architect)
— Manuel Vicente, 13 January 1993, 21’ 28’’
— AAP/Banhos de São Paulo, 29 June 1995, 27’ 56’’
— Um dia na feira, 18 July 1996, 22’ 59’’
7pm Susana Menezes (artistic director of LU.CA theatre)
— Qualquer semelhança é inevitável, 1 December 1994, 29’ 37’’
— Dois designers, 18 May 1994, 26’ 27’’
— Portugal dos Pequenitos, 9 May 1996, 27’ 26’’
9:30pm João Luís Carrilho da Graça (architect)
— Eduardo Souto de Moura, 16 June 1993, 24’ 56’’
— Hotel Ritz, 5 April 1995, 29’ 21’’
— Clandestinos Urbanos/1.ª parte, 6 June 1996, 25’ 11’’
Saturday 11 de September 2021
3pm Ana Vaz Milheiro (architect)
— Três Lugares da Noite, 3 November 1993, 24’ 42’’
— Mulheres na Arquitectura, 29 December 1993, 25’ 52’’
— Cova do Vapor; 6 April 1994, 24’ 30’’
5pm Ricardo Pedroso Lima (architect)
— Distinguir Arquitectura e Construção, 15 December 1992, 22’ 57’’
— O Desenho dos Pratos; 17 November 1993, 25’ 55’’
— Quinta da Malagueira, 22 February 1996, 26’ 18’’
7pm Mariana Salvador (architect)
— Sergio Fernandez, 31 March 1993, 25’
— Lisboa/1.ª parte, 22 September 1993, 24’ 18’’
— Palavras na Cidade, 1 June 1995, 24’ 25’’
9:30pm João Botelho (filmmaker)
— Mistérios da Cidade, 15 June 1995, 24’ 21’’
— A Cor na Arquitectura, 16 February 1994, 23’ 59’’
— Roulottes, 27 July 1995, 25’ 50’’
Production
CCB/Garagem Sul with the support of RTP
Contacts
garagemsul@ccb.pt
+351 213 612 614/5