Porto, the European Capital of Culture in 2001, does not disappoint those who visit it. The cultural offers are wide and diverse, the result of an increasingly strong artistic dynamic. Young talents and creators have emerged in recent years and have contributed to the affirmation of a Porto of the arts.
ROSA ET AL Townhouse shares this spirit since the early days and has taken an active role in promoting young talents side by side with know local, and international artists. ROSA ET AL Townhouse Exhibitions  are our contribution to the enrichment of the city's artistic panorama. The private suites and the common spaces of the Townhouse are transformed into a galleryin its own right.

For more information on current and past exhibitions, please contact our Front Office.


MARIA VITTORIA TROVATO
2021 — 2022 
CHIMNEYS WERE THE FIRST
SKYSCRAPERS OF KRANJ
curadoria de
JOÃO VILELA GERALDO
ZALA VIDALI OREL

instalação de
EMANUEL DE SOUSA
‘Chimneys Were The First Skyscrapers Of Kranj’ by Italian photographer Maria Vittoria Trovato is a photographic project developed over four days in the Slovenian city of Kranj, which was born in the coincidence of a road accident.
Leaning against the magnificent plateau of the Julian Alps, Kranj would never be a primary goal of study, a priority. It was always just a place of passage, a border in between no-man's lands, which does not meet Slovenia's natural beauty standards. This is Kranj, an industrial city in the outskirts, wedged between Ljubljana's decision centers and the perfect tourist ‘postcard’ reality of lake Bled, where people do not exist as a reality to portray.
developed with 
Layerjeva Hiša Kranj
MARIA VITTORIA TROVATO (1982, Gela) is one of the most important European documentary photographers, having developed several internationally awarded editorial works from Miami to Lima, from Buenos Aires to Stockholm.
After a few years in Milan, New York City and Berlin, Trovato recently returned to discover Sicily, where she was born and grew up, and where Gela's petrochemical chimneys continue to be seen from the window of her nursery.

 

see past exhibitions

Isabel Quaresma Take-over
Vernissage, 30 May 2020
Exhibition from 14 March to 20 September 2020
Everyday, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

 

 
On Saturday, 30 May 2020, ROSA ET AL Townhouse welcomes Porto-based artist ISABEL QUARESMA on a special take-over of the townhouse, installing a collection of past and current artworks throughout the common spaces and private suites of the nineteenth-century townhouse, between 4.00 pm and 8.00 pm. Join us! And do not miss the vernissages at EARLYMADE, next door!
About the Artist
ISABEL QUARESMA was born in Lamego and lives and works in Porto. Quaresma started her training in Fashion Design at the Professional Training Center for Textiles and Clothing, CITEX. She continued her studies with a Degree in Fine Arts, Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, FBAUP. In the same university, she completed a Master's in Design and Printing Techniques, Textiles, with the thesis, Por um Fio, Intersecção entre Desenho Têxtil e Corpo numa Prática Artística. She has also completed a post-grad in Weaving at the Fashion Academy in Florence, Italy. She has been Assistant Coordinator of the Fashion Design Course at CITEX. And a professor at the Soares dos Reis Artistic School where he taught the Textile Technology Discipline. Currently, she is a guest professor for the Têxteis Construídos Unit at FBAUP and a trainer in Continuing Education at the same institution. Quaresma artistic practice has been reflecting her interest in the intersection of textile with other fields of Fine Arts such as painting, sculpture, drawing and video, combining artistic practice with research.
Her work is developed in areas that influence and contaminate each other. With a natural extension to the field of design with her Wearable Things and to the field of education and training where she has developed projects both with institutions and independently with her most recent project, CLIMA. She was part of the Collective of Artists and Designers, We Came From Space. She is currently the director and founder of CLIMA.STUDIO. She has been exhibiting since 2002 having been selected for CONTEXTILE 2014 and a Guest Artist at CONTEXTILE 2016 conceiving a solo exhibition entitled Territórios Imprudentes at CAAA in Guimarães supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2019, she was invited by the Museu de Lamego for a solo exhibition entitled Ensaio Tropical.
About the pieces
RECEPTION
WEAVING LINES #1 / #2, DYPTIC (2), 2014 
75000 / EACH Oil bar on cotton fabric, 120 x 110

BRUNCH ROOM
WEAVING LINES #3 / #4 / #5, TRYPTIC (3), 2014 
75000 / EACH Oil bar on cotton fabric, 120 x 110

STAIRCASE LEVEL -1
I PAINT THEREFORE TO WEAVE III , 2019
115000 Acrylic and plaster on cut and intertwined cotton, 114 x 90
STAIRCASE LEVEL 1
I PAINT THEREFORE TO WEAVE II, 2019
100000 Acrylic and plaster on cut and intertwined cotton, 114 x 90

STAIRCASE LEVEL 2
I PAINT THEREFORE TO WEAVE I, 2019
100000 Acrylic and plaster on cut and intertwined cotton, 114 x 90 

SKYLIGHT
PAISAGEM DE SANGUÍNEA, 2013
225000 Sanguine on cut and intertwined cotton, variable dimensions 
All pieces exhibited in the townhouse are for sale. If you are an artist and want your work to be displayed in our hotel, please contact us.

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