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The museum of contemporary art will display over 400 works by Portuguese and foreign artists, shown from Armando Martins' collection, which he has been building for several decades. Located in the Palácio Dos Condes da Ribeira Grande, in Rua da Junqueira, Lisbon, the museum is set to open in the latter half of 2021.

The collection brings together works by Portuguese and foreign artists including Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Paula Rego, José Malhoa, Amadeo Souza-Cardoso, Almada Negreiros, Eduardo Viana, Paula Rego, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Julião Sarmento, Rui Chafes, José Pedro Croft and Lourdes Castro, among others.

International artists represented in the collection inlcude Gilberto Zorio, John Baldessari, Albert Oehlen, Olafur Eliasson, Marina Abramovic, Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Ballester Moreno, Juan Muñoz, Santiago Sierra, Carlos Aires, Pedro Reyes, Carlos Garaicoa, Ernesto Neto, Rosângela Rennó, Vik Muniz and Isa Genzken.

The new museum will also feature a five-star hotel, a conference room, a restaurant, a bar, a shop and a space to present cultural events in the area of ​​performing arts. The building itself was built in the 18th century by the second marquis of Niza, it was then expanded and remodelled by the first marquis of Ribeira Grande in the 19th century, and has undergone several modifications since, with the creation of Martins’ new museum being the buildings next lease of life.

This autumn, Tate Liverpool will present a new film installation by artist Emily Speed, as the inaugural Art North West commission, which will be shown alongside a painting by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. 

The Corridor, a 1950 work by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, is part of Tate Collection and forms part of a series of paintings made by Vieira da Silva after she moved to Paris in 1948. Despite appearing largely monochromatic, The Corridor contains violet, blue, green, yellow, red, black, grey and white – a palette similar to that used by post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne (1839–1906).

Vieira da Silva’s depictions of allegorical space and representations of internal architectural structure have influenced Speed’s practice. The Corridor depicts a claustrophobic grey interior or corridor with a low ceiling, close walls and a sharp vanishing point, to which the eye is led by multiple and conflicting perspectival lines.