LUMIAR CITÉ

Waldemar d’Orey
Something is missing
21.07. – 10.10.2021

Curator: Manuel Costa Cabral

11.09 | 17h Catalogue launch

Image, from left to right: Waldemar d’Orey, Phillip King and Lord Snowdon

Image, from left to right: Waldemar d’Orey, Phillip King and Lord Snowdon

After his first solo show in 1966 at the AXIOM Gallery in London, Waldemar d´Orey’s second solo show takes place after 55 years at Lumiar Cité in Lisbon. A resurrection of a work of art, which was mysteriously lost during the artist’s 1960s swingeing days in London, constitutes the core of d’Orey’s show ‘Something is missing’. The kinetic cantilevering sculpture Mobile appeared on the cover of the prestigious Whitechapel Gallery catalogue "New Generation 1965", photographed by the no less prestigious photographer Lord Snowdon. At the time, Mobile was notably absent in the exhibition itself, the cover image of the catalogue together with some other washed-out shots, as well as the artist’s meticulous memory were all that was left.

Opposite the gallery in Alta de Lisboa, a wall text from Lumiar Cité’s first exhibition in 2005 states: When something is missing it can be added. Sixteen years later, this public artwork by Teolinda Varela echoes and seems to fulfill itself in d’Orey’s project for Lumiar Cité. Dedicating the residency at Maumaus and the exhibition budget to the reconstruction of Mobile, the artwork is no longer missing. It will forever remain missing in the 1965 Whitechapel gallery exhibition though – we wonder how many visitors, having the catalogue in hand, were searching for the rather photogenic work on the cover. The object’s missing has been undone at Lumiar Cité, so the ‘original’ forever lost is now evoked by its substitute, by a new ‘original’, which is only possible because of the first original having been lost, which in turn constitutes the conceptual punchline of d’Orey’s 2021 exhibition.

The title of the sculpture, Mobile, suggests a reading of the word as an adjective instead of a noun: looking at this object as a carrier of a modern promise, it conveys an energy today often evoked as lost. Here the exhibition title may be accurate – with synonyms such as loose, agile, versatile, flexible, speedy or changeable coming to mind. D’Orey’s Mobile is restrainedly colourful, not intrusive but playful, advocating a choreography of modern sculpture that brings alive the energetic prospects from another time: no nostalgia and archaeology, something is missing.


Waldemar d’Orey (Lisbon, 1940) lives and works in Lisbon. He studied architecture and painting at Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa (Lisbon, 1958-1960) and sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art (London, 1960-1964) with the artists Anthony Caro and Phillip King. He was a grant recipient from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (1962-1964) and taught at The Oxford School of Architecture, Birmingham School of Art, Coventry School of Art and Design and Saint Martin's School of Art (1964-1968). Besides a solo exhibition at the prestigious AXIOM Gallery (London, 1966), he participated in the group exhibitions ‘Young Contemporaries’ (London – 1961, 1962, 1963), ‘New Generation’, catalogue cover, Whitechapel Gallery (London, 1965), ‘Forma Viva, International Sculpture Symposium’ (Ravne na Koroškem, Slovenia, 1966), ‘New Sculpture’, The Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, 1966) and ‘Sculpture in Leicester’ (1967).

















































































































































































































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Current:

Independent Study Programme
Call 2024
Until 03.09.2023

Upcoming:

Manthia Diawara
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
30.09.2023, 19h00

Commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project.

Upcoming:

Maumaus

Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal

The discussion will be in English.
Entry is free and limited to the number
of seats available.

PROBLEMATISING REALITY
Encounters between art and philosophy

Programme 4
Shot, counter-shot

Here and Elsewhere
(Ici et ailleurs, 1976)
by Jean-Luc Godard
and Anne-Marie Miéville

with Marwa Arsanios
and Ghalya Saadawi,
moderated by Stefanie Baumann

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Auditorium 2
16.02.2024, 18h30

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Sala 2, Zona de Congressos
14.–15.02.2024, 11h–13h,14h–17h

Upcoming:

Programme 4

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
16.02.2024

Programme 2:
(de)framing the frame

Meeting the Man:
James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
by Terence Dixon

with Sarah Lewis-Cappellari
and Kerstin Stakemeier

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Auditorium 2
23.11.2023, 18h30

Programme 1:
space, place and memory

with Billy Woodberry
and Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Auditorium 3
13.10.2023, 18h30

Manthia Diawara
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom
Sharjah Biennial 15
07.02. – 11.06.2023

Manthia Diawara
A Letter from Yene
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto
14.03.2023

Current:

Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.


Lumiar Cité

Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
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Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021

24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth

Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock


Current:

Anna Schachinger
Allover
08.10. – 11.12.2022

07.10 | 18h00 Circulating Salt, Ayami Awazuhara
08.10 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition


Current:

Cosima von Bonin
Boy at Work
15.04. – 23.07.2023

15.04 | 17h00 Opening of the exhibition

20.07 | 19h00 Talk by Diedrich Diederichsen

Dozie Kanu
PREENCHENDO VAZIOS
20.01. – 14.04.2024

20.01 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition

16.03 | 17h00 Talk between Dozie Kanu

and Simon Thompson

Upcoming:

D(O)UBLE ACT
a conversation between
Dozie Kanu and Simon Thompson
16.03.2024, 17h00


Upcoming:

Sid Iandovka & Anya Tsyrlina with Leslie Thornton & Thomas Zummer
once in a hundred years

27.04. – 28.07.2024 | Lumiar Cité

18.05. – 28.07.2024 | Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

A combined exhibition between
Lumiar Cité and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg.

A co-production by Lumiar Cité
and Artium Museum

14.10 | 17h00 Book launch with talk between

Alejandro Cesarco and
Miguel Wandschneider

| 18h00 Opening of the exhibition

Current:

Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz
24.03. – 24.09.2023

Upcoming:

Lumiar Cité
14.10.2023 – 14.01.2024


Collaboration:

The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
01.04. – 06.08.2023

Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January

Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock


In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:

Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019

Johann Jacobs Museum

In co-production with Lumiar Cité:

Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
24.03. - 24.09.2023

Artium Museum

The Educational Web
31.03. - 06.08.2023

Kunstverein in Hamburg



Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar.

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