Description: The acclaimed architectural geniuses of the Portuguese world, AIRES MATEUS, have been invited to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale five times since 2010. This publication introduces the five breathtakingly poetic installations that they have contributed to the world's most renowned architectural event.
Brief description:
Delfim Sardo is a professor at the University of Coimbra and responsible for the visual arts program at Culturgest, Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos. He also works as consultant of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and director of the Center of Exhibitions of the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. His curatorial work includes the curatorship of the Portuguese Representation at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and co-curatorship of the same in 2010. He was also chief curator of the Architecture Triennale of Lisbon 2010 and of the Biennial Anozero in 2017.
Further pursuits include his founding and directing the Pangloss contemporary art magazine and working as president of the Portuguese section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). He writes regularly on art and architecture and is the author of several books, including A Visão em Apneia published by Babel in 2013, and O Exercício Experimental da Liberdade by Black Orpheus in 2017.