Menez in the Manuel de Brito Collection

Menez na Coleção Manuel de Brito

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Wednesday 23 September · until 2 Jan

CAMB presents an exhibition dedicated to Portuguese artist Menez, tracing her production from abstraction to figuration, including luminous interiors and intimate themes.

CAMB, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, presents Menez in the Manuel de Brito Collection, an exhibition dedicated to one of the most singular Portuguese artists of the 20th century. Self-taught, Menez (1926, 1995) began painting at the age of 26, developing a deeply personal language, free from schools and conventions. She refused to give titles to her works and believed that painting should communicate on its own, without need for explanations. The exhibition covers different moments of her artistic production, from the abstraction of her early years to the turn to figuration, marked by the loss of her two eldest children and by the representation of biblical themes and the human condition. In the last years of her life, the artist devoted herself to painting luminous interiors, studios, female figures, books and gardens, revealing a universe of great sensitivity and intimacy. On view at CAMB until January 2 of next year, the show invites visitors to rediscover the work of an essential artist of Portuguese art. ARV. Tuesday to Saturday, 10am–1pm/2pm–7pm. Painting.