In ‘As Mulheres Que Não Veremos Duas Vezes – um ensaio sobre Minetti, retrato do artista quando velho’, Mónica Calle once again creates a cartography of the city, just as she did 10 years ago after leaving Casa Conveniente in Cais Sodré. Without a creative space since 2014, Calle and Casa Conveniente continue to explore the relationship between performance and artistic work and the different contexts of a city.
Using the same materials: Thomas Bernhard’s Minetti, Shakespeare’s King Lear and classical music, and with performances by Laura Garcia, Mafalda Jara and Marta Felix, Calle reflects on the loneliness and sacrifice of the artist without a place, recovering a strong characteristic of his artistic discourse that confronts the interior space and the theatre with the exterior and the street – art and everyday reality.
‘The artist is only a true artist if he is mad from head to toe, if he gives himself over completely to madness, transforming it into his radical method. And let the world think and write what it wants. He can’t be a chicken. The artist can’t be a chicken, that’s obvious. Society cut off my legs by taking me off stage, they put a lawsuit on me and ruined my life. But my nature as an artist didn’t suffer at all as a result, on the contrary. But what an effort it is: being an artist in my sister’s attic.’ Minetti, portrait of the artist as an old man.
