Philippe Parreno presents his first exhibition in Portugal, A Time Coloured Space, at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. Curated by the director of the museum, Suzanne Cotter, the exhibition will span thirteen rooms, across two floors, occupying the museum’s entire building.
The exhibition is structured on the mathematical model of the fugue, and conceived around the idea of the counterpoint, or ritournelle, a principle whereby a particular passage is repeated at regular interludes within a musical arrangement to create compositional meaning. Governed by a similar method, A Time Coloured Space is determined not by its ‘objects’, but by the regularity and rhythm of their appearance, featuring some of Parreno’s most emblematic work dating back to the 1990s.
Among the works included are Parreno’s Speech Bubbles (1997 and ongoing) and Fraught Times: For Eleven Months of the Year it’s an Artwork and then December it’s Christmas (2008-2016). Also, more than 180 of Parreno’s ink drawings, created between 2012 and 2015, will be on display.
A Time Coloured Space
3 February – 1 May 2017
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
Rua D. João de Castro, 210
4150-417 Porto Portugal