Azul no Azul

Azul no Azul (English title: Blue in Blue) is a short Portuguese experimental film created by Italian filmmaker Gianmarco Donaggio and Portuguese painter Nelson Ferreira. The film was produced and distributed in collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal, and it premiered at the museum on the 28th of July 2022, after which it was exhibited in the cinema of the museum from the 29th of July until the 15th of September 2022.[1][2] A second version was created for Soares dos Reis National Museum to celebrate the 150 years of the sculpture ‘The Exiled’ by António Soares dos Reis and screened at the museum from the 10th of December 2022 until 19 March 2023.[3][4][5][6]

Azul no Azul
Azul no Azul
Directed byGianmarco Donaggio
Produced byGianmarco Donaggio Nelson Ferreira
CinematographyGianmarco Donaggio
Edited byGianmarco Donaggio
Release date
28 July 2022
Running time
6 min
CountryPortugal
Languagesilent

Description

Azul no Azul was ideated by the two artists as an experiment in which Donaggio was translating in cinematic form the painting process of Ferreira's blue series, a collection of paintings that the artist completed over his stay as an artist in residency at MNAC in Lisbon.[7] As the museum curator stated: "In this cycle of contemporary works Nelson's reverence for the great classical masters and academic tradition is attested."[7] As a consequence, in the make of Azul no Azul, Donaggio was called to the task of adapting the act of filming to both the effect and the process of challenging painting techniques such as of alla prima - painted directly looking at the subject, and the classic statuary tradition of the subjects depicted. The result is a film experience of blue shapes taking the form of the classical sculptures of the museum sculpture garden, and vice versa, the sculptures melting into blue informal elements.[2][8][9]

See also

References
  1. "short film 'Azul no Azul' (Blue in Blue)". MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA DO CHIADO. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  2. Bordino, Margherita (2022-08-11). "Azul no Azul: il corto dedicato al Museo MNAC di Lisbona" (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  3. "Exposição" Azul no Azul - Estudos sobre os 150 anos do Desterrado" e filme O Desterrado de Gianmarco Donaggio". Património Cultural.
  4. "Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis assinala 150 anos de "O Desterrado"". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  5. "Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis on Instagram: "O MNSR assinala em 2022 os 150 anos da obra-prima do escultor António Soares dos Reis com a exposição 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐥 𝐧𝐨 𝐀𝐳𝐮𝐥 - 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐛𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐬 𝟏𝟓𝟎 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨, que junta aguarelas do artista @nelson.ferreira.visual.artist e um filme do cineasta italiano @gm_donaggio . A mostra, que traz outros olhares sobre 𝐎 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨, abre no próximo sábado, às 15h30, com uma visita orientada, e fica até 19 de março de 2023. In 2022, the Museum marks the 150th anniversary of the masterpiece by sculptor António Soares dos Reis with the exhibition 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 - 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟓𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝, which brings together watercolors by @nelson.ferreira.visual.artist and a film by the Italian filmmaker @gm_donaggio . The exhibition, which brings other perspectives on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝, opens next Saturday at 3:30 pm with a guided tour and runs until March 19, 2023. #museunacionalsoaresdosreis #museusoaresdosreis #odesterrado #escultura #sculpture #soaresdosreis #odesterrado150anos #theexiled #watercolors"". Instagram. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  6. "Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis assinala 150 anos de "O Desterrado"". Jornal Expresso (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  7. "Painting rarefied the spirit". MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA DO CHIADO. Archived from the original on 2022-10-16. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  8. "Azul no Azul, a Lisbona il nuovo lavoro del regista varesino Gianmarco Donaggio". VareseNews (in Italian). 2022-07-19. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  9. "Jovem da Maceira convidado a pintar quadros para príncipe saudita". Jornal de Leiria (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
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