Nadir Afonso Arts Center
Nadir Afonso Foundation
The Nadir Afonso Foundation publishes and promotes the work of Nadir Afonso nationally and internationally.
Nadir Afonso
(1920 - 2013)
Nadir Afonso - Painter, architect and philosopher, author of a singular work, structured in the international artistic context, is one of the most important artists of Portuguese art of the 20th century.
Nadir Afonso - Painter, architect and philosopher, author of a singular work, structured in the international artistic context, is one of the most important artists of Portuguese art of the 20th century.
The work of Nadir Afonso occupies an indispensable place in the history of contemporary art
It sediments his artistic work with a singular written production of a theorizing character about art, the artistic object and its foundations, making it nowadays recognized nationally and internationally, as evidenced by the presence of his work in the collections of numerous national and foreign institutions of recognized artistic and cultural merit.
Guided by several periods his work is classified by the following phases: modernity; surrealism; Geometrism; Baroque period; Egyptian period; Espacillimités; The cities; Perspetic Period; Organic Period and Fratal Period.
Nadir Afonso Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition Nadir Afonso - Chaves for a Work is an exhibition allusive to 35 of the painter's 70 years of work.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday: between 10am and 1pm and between 2pm and 7pm
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday: between 10am and 1pm and between 2pm and 7pm
Nadir Afonso Arts Center
Exhibition " EROS " that reveals one of the less publicized facets of the vast work of Nadir Afonso, partly unpublished: the representation or suggestion of the human figure.
Hours: Between 09h00 and 12h30 and the afternoon between 14h00 and 17h30
(Closed on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning)
Hours: Between 09h00 and 12h30 and the afternoon between 14h00 and 17h30
(Closed on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning)