"Within the scope of the Universal Exhibition of Seville 92, the Pavilhão das Artes intends to be the space that elucidates the evolution and situation of the international artistic avant-garde, represented by several of its masters and with a temporal amplitude that extends to the recent aesthetic trends of modernity."

"Technology, ethnicity, tradition and avant-garde are, in fact, the basic coordinates that are often defined in a thesis - antithesis relationship, highlighted here, for a viable overview of the art of our century."