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Ricardo Valentim: An exhibition in a business card page

Ricardo Valentim: An exhibition in a business card page

A couple weeks ago, the day before coming back to Lisbon from New York, João Mourão and Luís Silva, our co-directors, had brunch with New York based artist Ricardo Valentim. The food was great, as was the conversation. It had been a while since they last met and they wanted to make up for that.

 
Ricardo brought with him his most recent solo exhibition, titled “An exhibition in a business card page”, in cooperation with Aaron Flint Jamison, Alejandro Cesarco, Ana Jotta, David Horvitz and Sol Lewitt. He put it on the table, next to the food and drinks, and guided João and Luís through the different works in the show. The exhibition is on view by appointment only, you see, and their brunch had just turned into an impromptu appointment to visit the exhibition.

 
João and Luís were excited by it, by its rhetorical nature, by its performativity, by its portability. What to make of such a project? What to make of a business card page, a on-the-verge-of-obsolescence mode of archiving professional (and personal) information, as the locus for an ambivalent project that riffs on the tropes of exhibition making and artwork making? They asked if Kunsthalle Lissabon could get it on a loan so they could take it with them and have it on view, by appointment only, of course, at their office in Lisbon. Ricardo agreed and passed them the folder containing the business card page and all the additional documentation that comes with an exhibition, press release and artwork list included. They then payed the bill and once on the street went separate ways. A few days later, already in Lisbon, João and Luís received a letter containing the loan release form signed and dated by Ricardo.

 
Now that all the formalities have been taken care of, Kunsthalle Lissabon is happy to announce that “An exhibition in a business card page” by Ricardo Valentim will be available for viewing, during our regular opening hours. Friday, June 9th at 18:30, Ricardo will be at Kunsthalle Lissabon to give a special tour of the exhibition to anyone who is interested.
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