El arte público y sus especificidades

Abreu, José Guilherme

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Abreu, José Guilherme

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Based on the assumption that Public Art is a principle for enhancing and improving collective environment (Lorraine Cox, 1996), our communication is focused on the problem of the distinction between Public Art and Contemporary Art practices and aims. Thought as a principle for enhancing the collective environment, Public Art engages an opportunity and a stimulus for the advance and the expansion of the public sphere, by allowing citizen participation and increasing social interaction. Because it functions as device for the registration of passed memories or prospecting utopias. Because it attempts to impart a more human sense of collective life. Because it expands the present communication media in the public space beyond advertising or signage that visually pollutes it (J. Maderuelo, 2001), the implementation of public art programs designed for and within a given community, improves community life and allows that our cities become spaces of conviviality and socio- cultural interaction (M. Miles, 1997). This paper intents to point out and to critically analyze different forms and processes of intervention and citizen interaction that are strictly specific to Public Art, both in historical periods and in more recent times, which help to distinguish its conceptual models (S. Armajani, 1999) and its production processes and means (A. Remesar, 1997). First of all, we shall point out some historical forms of civic participation, such as public subscriptions. Secondly, we will refer to, and discuss, some recent public art programs in Portugal, in which different forms of collective and community interaction endorsed by specific cases will be considered, as for instance the International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture of Santo Tirso, in the field of pedagogical approach aiming to help artistic perception and aesthetical awareness, and Paredes Public Art Circuit, in the field of creating community involvement programs, implemented during its programming period.