Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology opens October 4th – Daily News – Lisbon

The project will be presented on Thursday during ARCOmadrid, a meeting for 150 guests
  

The new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, has opening scheduled for the 4th and 5th of October, the exhibition Utopia / Dystopia Part 1: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster , today announced the EDP Foundation

according to the foundation, the project will be presented internationally, on Thursday, in ArcoMadrid – Contemporary Art Fair,. the museum’s director, Peter Gadanho, a meeting for 150 guests from the world of arts and culture.

Situated on the banks of the Tagus river, in Belém, the MAAT was designed by AL_A workshop, led by architect Amanda Levete, and will have 7,000 square meters available to receive presentations on visual arts and multimedia, architecture and city, science and technology, society and thought.

An image showing the final aspect

| DR / Courtesy EDP Foundation

According to the EDP Foundation, the new museum will extend the program to the Central Tejo, the early twentieth century building, so far, has worked as the Electricity Museum.

the permanent and temporary exhibitions will take place in the new building and Central Tejo, according to the Foundation, noting that the goal is to create “a place of discovery, thought critical and international dialogue. “

Also according to that entity, the new building will have exhibition spaces under an undulating roof and the facade, 3D tiles will be placed” that produce a complex surface that includes water, electricity and shadow. “

last January, EDP reported Lusa the drawn schedule to take place in June this year to January 2017, which contained performances from artists such as Edgar Martins, Ana Jotta and Rui Calçada Bastos .

the exhibition that will inaugurate the MAAT in October, entitled Utopia / Dystopia, Part 1: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster , arises in the context of the 500th anniversary of the publication of the book Utopia , Thomas more (1480-1535), which launched at the time, the wider use of that word.

Previously, from June 21, will be inaugurated Lightopia , curated by the Vitra Design Museum and Peter Gadanho in Central showroom Tejo 1, which looks at how the electric light revolutionized society, with examples in the fields of design, architecture and other disciplines.

This show was shown in 2014 at the headquarters of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, later traveled to the Design Museum Gent, Belgium, and is now reflected in Mobel Museum, in Vienna, Austria.

from October to January 2017, the world will be presented of Charles and Ray Eames designers, considered the most influential and pioneering names in this area, in the twentieth century.

the World of Charles and Ray Eames is a retrospective of the work of two creators, which is now reflected in the arts center Barbican in London.

the show explores the variety of worlds in which the designers have lived and worked, from the creation of new products for the war effort, to adapt these experimental materials to home furniture and studio, in times of peace.