The Angra do Heroísmo Museum opens a retrospective exhibition of Santa Maria artist José Nuno da Câmara Pereira entitled "José Nuno da Câmara Pereira - A Happy Sisyphus," under the curatorship of art critic José Luís Porfírio, next Friday, February 10, at 6:30 PM.
 
The exhibition, which will be open to the public until April 16, develops into two spaces: Chapter Room and Dacosta Room.
 
This exhibition consists of 16 works belonging to private and institutional collections and the artist's own collection. They were all included in the major retrospective exhibition organised by the Regional Secretariat for Education and Culture, through the Regional Directorate for Culture and Arquipélago – Contemporary Arts Centre, at this centre between April 21 and July 3, 2016.
 
On this occasion, it presented 61 works produced from the 1960s until 2006, including painting, video, installation and sculpture.
 
The exhibition also featured the collaboration of Azorean painter Urbano Resendes, who recreated an installation of José Nuno da Câmara Pereira dating back to 1986 designated as "Landscape or Sea of Mud."
 
A work usually reserved for the public eye, the series of studies for the ceiling of Teatro Faialense, of which there are only three copies, was also in exhibition at Arquipélago.
 
José Nuno da Câmara Pereira was born on Santa Maria in April 1937. He graduated in painting from the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon. He has taught at António Arroio School, IADE - Creative University and Ar.Co. He has held solo and collective exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.
 
In 1987/88, he attended the Center for Advanced Visual Studies do M.I.T. – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as fellow of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1994, he returned to the Azores, where he settled in Angra do Heroísmo.
 
He was the recipient of numerous awards and his work is represented in several private and institutional collections.
 
The Regional Directorate for Culture informs that this and other events may be consulted in the Cultural Agenda of CulturAçores Portal at the following address: www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt.