Madeira Exhibition by Francisco Simoes

3. This complex went through several changes and enlargements throughout the 19th and 20th century, but the decision of installing the Madeira Legislative Assembly in this building was not made before 1982

5. The Legislative Assembly of Madeira, in Funchal, hosts the exhibition LIAISONS by the sculptor Francisco Simoes, a Portuguese postwar & contemporary artist who was born in 1946. The artist uses sculpture, painting, drawing and ceramics as forms of art that seem simple to the eye, but quite profound and complex in terms of technique and message. He received the 2018 Lusofonia Prize in Paris, in the Sculpture category and next year, some works by Francisco Simoes will become part of the collection of the Louvre Museum

6. The ‘Liaisons' exhibition is composed of works by the sculptor and others by several renowned artists who are part of his private collection, in a kind of 'connection' between themselves and with the spaces where the works are open to the public

10. Rafael Canogar Painting untitled The exhibition, which can be seen in different spaces of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira, can be visited, free of charge, during the opening hours of the Madeiran parliament, until the next 30th of September 2023.

28. The old Manueline nucleus of the building was restored and adapted to the new needs

30. Pablo Picasso Ceramic

34. Inside the Legislative Assembly, you have the opportunity to visit several rooms

35. TheMeeting Room with its 19th-century tapestries

36. TheMeeting Room with its 19th-century tapestries

38. TheMeeting Room

39. TheMeeting Room

42. TheNoble Room

43. TheNoble Room with its Mudejar ceiling

44. TheNoble Room with its ceilings in the Hispano-Moorish tradition, in polychrome cedar wood