
António Bolota
On first glance, “Labor,” António Bolota’s first survey exhibition, presents a straightforward selection of the Sintra-based artist’s previous monumental outdoor and indoor projects (all works Untitled), imported to Culturgest in a museum-scale catalogue of his engineering prowess. Over time, however, each piece appears to grow in situ with the adaptivity of an invasive plant, made to last by the skilled hands of traditional master-builders.
Installed disorientingly low to the ground in the first room is a massive fragment of a Mediterranean roof (2006/2021). It cuts the rectangular space