The Private Colection of Acácio Nobre / A Colecção Privada de Acácio Nobre

In the basement of Patricia Portela's grandparents a box was found with fragments of texts and models of objects devised by Acácio Nobre, a portuguese reference from the early XX century, but now forgotten, but now forgotten, a man with a political, scientific and artistic discreet but eloquent career, and very innovative for its time.. Portuguese Lumière, an early Steve Jobs, a toy inventor, a science-fiction writer, a bio-engineer without peer in History, and a lover/staunch supporter of artists and art, Acácio Nobre was a toy maker that believed that teaching drawing to everyone would set up the basis for the revolution of the avant-garde and modernism in the 20th century.
In short: A Portuguese Leonardo da Vinci that a dictatorship silenced and eliminated from the records of Portuguese History.

Patricia Portela brings together the texts and models found in the forgotten chest, follows the clues to new and valuable documents lost in personal files and houses of friends. She rebuilds some of the works, political ideas and ambitious scientific and artistic projects of Acácio Nobre with the ultimate aim of reviving the work of one man, anonymous, like many others, and to question the collective memory of a country that if it had decided to give this man the immortality that he deserved, or had followed some of his principles, would have been a different country.

ABOUT THE SHOW
A vintage typewriter and a wireless keyboard perform a concert, and a silent film, and develop a partnership and dialogue about Acácio Nobre's archive, recreating the environment that surrounds an author as he thinks and writes.

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• patricia portela
• christoph de boeck
• andré teodósio
• pedro pires
• helena serra
• isabel garcez
• maria matos
• acácio nobre
• colecção
• privada
• daniel worm