Não vá o diabo tecê-las!

Offering a seductive and surprising journey through the universe of Portuguese tapestry, there are 86 works, 27 artists and more than 50 documents in an unprecedented exhibition approach that aims to highlight leading figures, institutions and events that constitute important milestones in the history of Portuguese tapestry, from 1946 onwards.

The Millennium bcp Collection will be on display, with a remarkable collection of tapestries produced by the Portalegre Tapestry Manufactory. Visitors will be able to see the quality of the manufacture’s work, with tapestries produced from originals by artists António da Costa Pinheiro, Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas, Graça Morais, Lourdes Castro, Luís Pinto-Coelho, Manuel Cargaleiro, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, José de Almada Negreiros, José de Guimarães, Júlio Resende and Júlio Pomar.

Tapestry has been asserting itself along another path, using works from institutions, private collections and artists’ collections, one can see it is no longer exclusively a transposition of a painting, but is moving towards an author’s tapestry in which the artist is both the one who conceives and executes. From the late 1940s to the present day, this history is anchored in works by Altina Martins, Alves Dias, Amândio Silva, Charters de Almeida, Eduardo Nery, Flávia Monsaraz, Gisella Santi, Helena Lapas, Isabel Laginhas, João Abel Manta, Júlio Pomar, Margarida Reis, Maria Isabel Barreno, Mário Dionísio, Paula Rego and Teresa Segurado Pavão.

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