Robert de Niro at the Lisbon Village Festival

Robert de Niro will be in Portugal in the beginning of June in order to inaugurate the Lisbon Village Festival 2007's first event: his father's - Robert de Niro Sr. - painting exhibit. This event is part of the Village Art program and will be at Palácio Galveias for about one month.

Besides an abstract expressionist painter, Robert de Niro Senior (1922- 1993) was a sculptor and a poet as well. He met Virginia Admiral - Robert de Niro''s mother - at Hans Hofmann painting classes in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Being a self proclaimed perfectionist, the artist painted and repainted his canvases again and again. He did hundred of studies before beginning to paint any piece. After the marriage in 1942, Robert de Niro Sr. and Virginia Admiral moved into a loft in New York''s Greenwich Village, where they were also able to paint. Among their illustrious circle of friends were names such as Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller and Tennessee Williams.
The first time the actor presented this exhibit from his father in Europe was in Rome, in December 2004. Then, it went to Roubaix, in France, and in 2007 it will be in Portugal by the hand of the Lisbon Village Festival. This exhibit's curator is Maria Nobre Franco, the Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo's Director.
The Lisbon Village Festival's second edition couldn't start better!