Book Launch: Para Chegar ao Branco da Última Palavra
2025-05-21 | 18:30
MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia
A conversation between Rui Nunes, João Pinharanda and Catarina Pombo Nabais on the occasion of the book launch by our curator Catarina Pombo Nabais.
Para Chegar ao Branco da Última Palavra (Porto: Officium Lectionis, 2025) is born from the rare encounter between two intense and seemingly opposite artistic universes: the writing of Rui Nunes and the painting of Sérgio Pombo. Based on a conversation between both, led by Catarina Pombo Nabais, the book explores the tensions and affinities between literature and painting, in a desire to understand the processes of artistic experimentation of these two monuments of Portuguese art.
The session at MAAT acquires special significance: the exhibition currently on display, "Turn around. Um olhar sobre a Coleção de Arte Fundação EDP", includes works by Sérgio Pombo, whose last major exhibition at the Fundação Carmona e Costa was curated by João Pinharanda. This launch is therefore also a posthumous tribute to the artist, celebrating the vitality of his work and his continued presence in Portuguese art.
Rui Nunes, João Pinharanda and Catarina Pombo Nabais revisit the conversation that gave rise to the book and propose a moment of shared thinking between literature, painting and philosophy, where memory is transformed into a living gesture and where creation affirms itself as a space of freedom.
