Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Camjap)

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Since the end of the 1950s the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, namely through its Fine Arts Department, acquired, either through purchase or donations from the many artists it has supported or awarded grants to, numerous works of Portuguese art. The Foundation also organized three major fine arts exhibitions, the first of which was held at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in December 1957. According to José Sommer Ribeiro this exhibition was instrumental to the changes felt in the Portuguese artistic milieu: finally Portugal opened its doors to modern art. Besides the obvious goals - introducing, promoting and awarding the works done to date -, the exhibition allowed the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's directors and their staff to obtain a panoramic picture of the state of the arts in Portugal. The second exhibition was held in December 1961, architecture was included and the scope was widened to include "all forms and means of expression in Art". This caused a significant increase in the number of works to be selected. Finally the third and last exhibition was held in July 1986, on occasion of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's 30th Anniversary. The hiatus from one exhibition to the other was explained by the increase, from the end of the 60s, in the amount of national initiatives promoted by other institutions, this explained why the Foundation had decided to make foreign art its priority. The third exhibition embraced new genres in the field of the arts, such as "Objects" and Installations, "Photography" and "Video"; and the artworks had to be dated post-1980, a "date internationally recognised as a significant turning point in Painting and Sculpture". It is important to note that a considerable number of the artworks presented at this exhibition were integrated into the Modern Art Centre's collection.

represented artists

Ivor Abrahams      Norman Ackroyd      Norman Adams      Craigie Aitchison      Helena Almeida      Michael Andrews      David Annesley      António Areal      Frank Auerbach      Gillian Ayres      Rui Calçada Bastos      Eduardo Batarda      John Beard      John Bellany      Adrian Berg      Michael Biberstein      André Bicât      Daniel Blaufuks      Sandra Blow      Michael Bolus      Derek Boshier      Manuel Botelho      Frank Bowling      Pedro Calapez      Jeffery Camp      Steven Campbell      Lourdes Castro      Patrick Caulfield      Mário Cesariny      Rui Chafes      Christo & Jeanne-Claude      Prunella Clough      Harold Cohen      Patrick Collins      Barrie Cook      Thomas Joshua Cooper      Austin Cooper      Tony Cragg      Michael Craig-Martin      José Pedro Croft      Ken Currie      Hubert Dalwood      Alan Davie      Adriano de Sousa Lopes      Robert Delaunay      Robyn Denny      Antony Donaldson      Jeffrey Edwards      Alexandre Estrela      Richard Eurich      Garth Evans      João Paulo Feliciano      Brian Fielding      Ian Hamilton Finlay      Rose Finn-Kelcey      Barry Flanagan      Hamish Fulton      Gaëtan      John Gibbons      Gilbert & George      Pamela Golden      Andy Goldsworthy      Pedro Gomes      Arshile Gorky      Antony Gormley      Henryk Gotlib      Alan Gouk      Alistair Grant      Alan Green      Anthony Green      Peter Greenham

Joséde Guimarães      David Hall      Maggi Hambling      Richard Hamilton      Patrick Hayman      Tim Head      Adrian Heath      Paul Henry      Barbara Hepworth      Patrick Heron      Anthony Hill      Susan Hiller      Roger Hilton      Derek Hirst      David Hockney      Howard Hodgkin      Craigie Horsfield      Callum Innes      João Jacinto      Allen Jones      Ana Jotta      John Kelly      Michael Kidner      Leon Kossoff      Fernando Lanhas      Álvaro Lapa      Anne Madden      Tim Mara      Bernardo Marques      Kenneth Martin      Jorge Martins      Colin Middleton      Lisa Milroy      Jorge Molder      Jeremy Moon      Henry Moore      Rui Moreira      Julian Opie      António Palolo      Eduardo Paolozzi      Peter Phillips      Jorge Pinheiro      John Piper      Alex Pollard      Júlio Pomar      João Queiroz      Paula Rego      Pedro Cabrita Reis      Zandra Rhodes      Bridget Riley      Joaquim Rodrigo      Julião Sarmento      Patrick Scott      António Sena      Isabel Simões      Jeffrey Steele      Susanne Themlitz      Joe Tilson      Rui Valério      Keith Vaughan      Marc Vaux      Ana Vieira      João Vieira      Mark Wallinger      Boyd Webb      Richard Wentworth      Rachel Whiteread      Tom Wood