programme cycle 01 / Dedicated to Natália de Andrade
Tiago Madaleno (1992, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal). Visual artist whose approach to artmaking is multimodal. His creative process transfers images between different mediums as a strategy to develop narratives and to reflect about performance. Madaleno studied at the Department of Fine Arts, University of Porto, where he was awarded a Masters degree in Painting (2016). He has exhibited his artwork since 2013, in the solo shows Smoke Room (2023), Museu Guerra Junqueiro, Porto; Light of September (2022), Galeria do Paço, Braga; A Garden at Night (2020), RAMPA, Porto, Criatório 2019 grant; and Clepsydra (2017-2018), Serralves, Porto, after winning Novo Banco Revelation Prize; among others. In 2022, he made the mural painting A Leaf in the Pocket, Porto Penitentiary Institution (Custóias), commissioned by the Serralves Foundation (project ‘Windows to the World’).
1982, sparkles and beams of light with multiple colors, a glossy lamp shining crystal, a televised gaze that approaches slowly, in crescendo, a host, Júlio Isidro, who announces what is next, a slight mistake in the title that ensures that everything that is happening is coherent and justified, an audience of tintins and milus blooming in black applauding enthusiastically, a piano waiting in anticipation, arms close to the body, preparing a shaky tango. Suddenly, you begin to feel the imaginary roll of drums, in crescendo. The host leaves the scene, the camera shot fills up and approaches, the first confident piano chords are heard, inviting, a hand stretched out in the air, waiting. There she is. In the center. Natália de Andrade. Emerging from the golden haze of the spotlights, throwing her arms in the air. Singing as the rain of petals fall into her mouth. The constant rain of petals that fall into her mouth.
