First Stone 2016/2022
Lisboa
National Coach Museum
Jasper Morrison
Jonathan Olivares
R2
Ian Anderson
Julião Sarmento
Álvaro Siza
João Luís Carrilho da Graça
Claudia Moreira Salles
Marina Abramović
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Frith Kerr
Amanda Levete
Carsten Höller
Sagmeister & Walsh
Pedro Falcão
Fernando Brízio
Manuel Aires Mateus
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Michael Anastassiades
Vladimir Djurovic
Peter Saville
Estúdio Campana
Paulo David
Studio MK27
Miguel Vieira Baptista
Carla Juaçaba
Jorge Silva
Jonathan Barnbrook
Philippe Starck
Ai Weiwei
Vhils
Bijoy Jain
Mia Hägg
Michel Rojkind
ELEMENTAL
Álvaro Siza
Claudia Moreira Salles
Amanda Levete
Michael Anastassiades
The First Stone 2016/2022 exhibition presents 74 original works in Portuguese stone, designed by 36 authors from 15 countries and produced by the national industry and craftsmanship. The exhibited pieces are the result of a passionate collaboration between the authors and the multiple people and companies that produced them. In each and one of them a different look into this millennial resource, the stone. A challenge directed to the visual arts, architecture and design and their transforming power.
Architects, product designers and plastic artists, historically used to this material, here explore less usual paths related to their practices; graphic designers, more distant to stone as a communication material, here opened a new chapter at a time when the world is digitising and dematerialising.
After this unique series of innovative projects has been partially shown in London, Milan, New York, São Paulo, Venice, Weil am Rhein, Basel and Dubai, in some of the most interesting contemporary museums, institutions and events, First Stone is now presented for the first time in its entirety in Lisbon. It is revealed in what is one of the most important Portuguese museums and alongside the largest collection of coaches in the world. It interacts with the museum complex both in the exterior spaces, mainly the large square, as well as its interior, allowing a multiplicity of dialogues between past, present and future.
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The First Stone 2016/2022 exhibition is open to the public between June 24 and January 15, Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 am to 6 pm. To visit the 24 projects inside the museum it is necessary to purchase a ticket at the entrance. The 17 projects presented in the exterior square can be visited anytime and without a ticket. Download the exhibition map to find out more about the location of these 41 projects and 74 pieces, as well as their dialogues and concepts behind them.
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The First Stone 2016/2022 exhibition opened with the presence of more than two thirds of the 36 authors in Lisbon and a series of debates at the Tivoli BBVA Theatre. The inauguration, open to the general public, receiving around 700 people, started at 10pm with a performance in the exterior square associated with the piece “Pedra do Tempo”, designed by the brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba. There was also a DJ & Light Design set, part of the piece designed by the graphic designer Frith Kerr “This dance ain’t for everybody, Only the sexy people (Dance Floor)”, and the performance with a work-in-progress framework of the piece “El Lissitzky” by the graphic designer Pedro Falcão, both in the first floor of the museum.
Credits
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Director and Curator: Guta Moura Guedes
Head of Production and Curatorial Assistant: Joana Morais
Senior Production: Mariana Ferreira, Marta Frade
Production and Design Assistance: Francisco Bonifácio
Communication and Editing: Santiago Simões
Graphic Design: Margarida Vilhena
Web Design and Development: Mariana Rosa
Exhibition Design: Guta Moura Guedes, Joana Morais
Press: JLM & Associados
Public Relations: Alex Sousa, Merícia Camacho
Financial Manager: Teresa Oliveira
Financial Assistant: Madalena Madeira
Assembly and Project Production Support: Revitiles (Edgar Ricardo, Lurdes Ferreira)
Exhibition Layout Construction: Artworks, Corticeira Amorim, Dirk Müller, Fravisel, Lindo Serviço, Manuel Barreto Madeiras, Origami Produções, Ribeiro & Espadinha, Serralharia & Arte, Tomaz Viana
Machinery: Transgrua, 4×4 Multi-Trabalhos
Sound and Lighting: Rui Tinoco
Transport: Ornofe
Travel Agency: Personal Travel
Graphic Production and Printing: Conceição Barbosa, Afterboom
Photography: Ricardo Gonçalves
Video Footage: Hugo Folgado, Miguel Manso
Assimagra
Project Coordination and Financial Management: Miguel Goulão, Célia Marques
Liaison to Stone Producing Companies: Nelson Cristo, Carla Gomes, Anabela Magalhães, Catarina Santos
Executive Assistance: Susana Pires
Photography and Video: Slideshow
Press: Madde
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Stone Suppliers and Production
AGF – António Galego & Filhos Mármores, SA; Airelimestones, Extração e Transformação de Pedra Natural, Lda; Ardósias Valério & Figueiredo, Lda; Comármore – Comércio e Extração de Mármore, Lda; Dimpomar – Rochas Portuguesas, Lda; ETMA – Empresa Transformadora de Mármores do Alentejo, SA; Ezequiel Francisco Alves, Lda; Fátima Stones by Marsefal, Lda; Formas de Pedra, Lda; Gárgula Gótica, Lda; Grupo Ferrar; Joaquim Duarte Urmal & Filhos, Lda; Julipedra – Indústria de Transformação de Mármores, Lda; LSI Stone; Lda; Marfilpe – Mármores e Granitos, SA; Marmocazi – Indústria de Mármores, Lda, Mármores da Granja, Lda; Mármores Galrão, SA; Mocapor – Comércio e Indústria de Mármores, SA; Moca Stone, SA; MVC – Mármores de Alcobaça, Lda, Pedra Secular, SA; Polimagra – Granitos, SA; Roufimar – Indústria de Mármores, SA; Solancis – Sociedade Exploradora de Pedreiras; Solicel – Sociedade do Centro Industrial de Esteios de Lousa, Lda; Solubema – Sociedade Luso-Belga de Mármores, SA; Transgranitos – Mármores e Granitos do Alto Tâmega, Lda
Co-production: República Portuguesa + Ministério da Cultura, DGPC, Museu Nacional dos Coches
Support: Stone By Portugal, Câmara Municipal Lisboa, Câmara Municipal de Porto de Mós, Câmara Municipal de Cascais, JLM & Associados, VCA – Valadas Coriel & Associados, Palácio Ludovice, Artworks, Fravisel, Central de Cervejas, Quinta da Boa Esperança,
Atelier Daciano da Costa, Revitiles, Fedrigoni, Slideshow, Pastéis de Belém, Amorim
Collaboration: ALTA_International Creative Alliance, RTP
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