“Fun is the display of my collection. I want it to be for everyone. I've seen enough of that”: the works of collector José Lima are an “amaze” in Porto

Art is part of Jose's “big family,” and like any father, he has no favorites. “Within this collection, I have no favorite children. That piece cost 500 euros and means to me the same value as a Vasareelli or Paola Rigo painting.says the shoemaker who had to come a long way in his life, at the age of eighty-four, to own what was around him 1600 works of contemporary art.

“All the money I had left was to buy works of art.”“, says the businessman to Expresso, during a conversation at Casa Comum, in the historic building of the University of Porto, open from Thursday to “Espanto”. This is the name of the exhibition that displays Nearly 60 works (some unpublished) from the collection of Norlinda and José Limaalong with rock art posters, ancient Greek vases, a Greco-Roman funerary mask, a bird trap, a pigeon skeleton, and beetles or clogs belong to the UP Museum of Natural History and Science.