Contemporary Song is the title of the exhibition dedicated to the first presentation at Serralves of the contemporary art collection created by the gallerist and collector Mário Teixeira da Silva (Porto, 1947—2023, Lisbon), recently deposited at the Foundation.

Mário Teixeira da Silva began assembling this Collection in the 1970s guided by his personal taste and reflecting his rigorous and organic way of working. The result is much more than a simple collection of artworks. Mário Teixeira da Silva also began his professional activity in the 1970s, oscillating between working as a museologist, helping organise exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Centre of the Soares dos Reis National Museum, and managing his own gallery project: Módulo — Centro Difusor de Arte. Despite the obvious overlapping of various areas of interest in the field of contemporary art, Mário Teixeira da Silva always succeeded in separating his roles as a gallerist and collector and acquired works that wouldn’t necessarily be included in his programme for Módulo.

This book, with the same title, brings together an essay by Adelaide Duarte, a researcher at the Art History Institute of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, and Marta Moreira de Almeida, deputy director of the Serralves Museum and curator of the exhibition, along with a display of more than 200 works on display at the Serralves Museum, including a complete list of the 756 works in the collection.