Monforte Sacro
AzLab#97 Podcast | 31 June 2024 [PT]
Azulejos applied between 1748 and 1749 with an iconographic programme dedicated to Queen Isabel. A church demolished between 1945 and 1946, but whose tiles have been boxed up and stored ever since. A project to inventory, assemble and install the tiles began in 2012. In this AzLab podcast we'll learn about the different phases leading up to the opening of the Monforte Sacro space to the public in 2023.
[disponível no blogue AzLab ou no YouTube]
Centro de Estudos Querubim Lapa
AzLab#96 Podcast | 26 June 2024 [PT]
With Madalena Leaper, Rafaela Fonseca, Suzana Barros and Pedro Lapa
This month we gave interns Madalena Leaper and Rafaela Fonseca a free hand to design and produce AzLab#96. The only thing we asked was that the episode should reflect the work they have been doing at the Querubim Lapa Study Centre since February, under the supervision of Suzana Lapa and Rosário Salema de Carvalho.
[available at blogue AzLab or at YouTube]
Manuela Pimentel
AzLab#95 Podcast | 29 May 2024 [PT]
Manuela Pimentel is an artist who develops her work by collecting posters from the streets, which she then separates, organises and transforms, painting and writing on them while leaving some parts visible, in the process recreating or simulating tiles from different periods. We met Manuela during the preparation of the exhibition Poéticas Revolucionárias (Revolutionary Poetics) at the Museu Nacional do Azulejo (National Museum of Tiles).
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Miguel Januário
AzLab#94 Podcast | 24 April 2024 [PT]
Artist Miguel Januário shares his experience of designing and coordinating the two tile murals on the theme of Fulfilling April, which have been painted in collaborative workshops from September 2023, and will be installed in Lisbon and Porto, as part of the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April.
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Alfonso Pleguezuelo
AzLab#93 Podcast | 27 March 2024 [ES]
Alfonso Pleguezuelo, a professor at the University of Seville, is one of the most influential Spanish art historians in the field of ceramics and tiles. In this AzLab we're going to find out more about his career, his ideas, the work he's done, and many other aspects of his life.
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Françoise Schein
AzLab#92 Podcast | 28 February 2024 [EN]
Françoise Schein is an important contemporary artist working with azulejos on a global scale. She has devoted a significant part of her work to the promotion of Human Rights, by means of large-scale artistic creations in which azulejos play a crucial role. Since 1997 (nineteen ninety-seven), her projects have been devéloped in collaboration with the Inscrire Association, an NGO founded by the artist and committed to promoting different issues related to citizenship and Human Rights through participatory art works.
We met Françoise Schein at the international conference GlazeArt and asked her to talk to us about her artistic career, her future projects and the paper she presented at the conference.
[disponível no blogue AzLab ou no YouTube]
Graça Silva e Mariana Americano
AzLab#91 Podcast | 31 January 2024 [PT]
Our guests are starting their doctoral theses and the AzLab podcast wanted to record the beginning of this journey, finding out what they are up to, what they aim to achieve, what they expect… Graça Silva is studying the Constância Ceramics Factory, based on a vast collection of materials collected after its closure in 2001, by a team from the National Azulejo Museum. Mariana Americano is researching the ornamental compositions known as albarradas, from the 17th and 18th centuries. Both work at the National Azulejo Museum and are doctoral candidates at Lisbon University's School of Arts and Humanities.
[available at blogue AzLab or at YouTube]
ChromAz project
AzLab#890Podcast | 13 December 2023 [PT]
The AzLab#90 Podcast was recorded at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences while we accompanied the ChromAz project team, coordinated by Susana Coentro, on a mission to analytically characterise the cloister's tiles.
[available at blogue AzLab or at YouTube]
Andreas Stöcklein
AzLab#89 Podcast | 8 November 2023 [PT]
Andreas Stöcklein, one of the most important artists currently working with azulejos in Portugal, is the protagonist of this AzLab Podcast, but we have also invited Ana Maria Viegas and Tiago Montepegado, from Ratton Gallery. Be sure to join this lively conversation, which will address many different subjects – including the artist’s work and the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his career in Portugal, marked by the inauguration of an exhibition at Ratton Gallery, entitled “The Other Place. Inner Conversations”, and a second, anthological exhibition at the National Azulejo Museum, entitled “On the Horizon. Andreas Stöcklein in the Ratton Collection”.
After this podcast was recorded we learned that the SOS Azulejo “Life Work” Prize 2022 was awarded to Andreas Stöcklein. Congratulations!!!
[available at blogue AzLabor at YouTube]
Organized in partnership with the National Azulejo Museum, the AzLab’s goal is to uncover new analytical perspectives on issues related to azulejos, and particularly to the study, inventory, collecting, safeguard, creation and dissemination of azulejos.
Throughout more than 10 years, AzLab has taken on different forms. Starting with in-person sessions at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, we switched to Zoom sessions during the pandemic and to hybrid sessions afterwards. In the upcoming season (2023-2024), the seminar will take the form of a podcast. Our goal is to discuss azulejos and various related issues, through interviews that promote the dialogue between different protagonists.
[+ info | blogue AzLab or YouTube]
