programme cycle 01 / Dedicado a 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, glimmers and beams of light in multiple colors, a glossy lamp shining crystal, a television gaze slowly approaching, gradually intensifying, a host, Júlio Isidro, announcing what’s next, a slight slip in the title that ensures everything happening is coherent and justified, an audience of tintins and milus dressed in black, enthusiastically applauding, a piano waiting in anticipation, arms by the side, preparing for a stumbling tango. Suddenly, you begin to feel the imaginary drumroll, growing louder. The host exits the scene, the camera zooms in closer, the first confident piano chords are heard, inviting, hand extended in the air waiting. There she is. In the center. Natália de Andrade. Emerging from the golden mist of the spotlights, throwing her arms up high. Singing as a rain of petals falls into her mouth. The constant rain of petals falling into her mouth.
