The inaugural exhibition of the new António Carneiro Atelier in Porto, designed by the architect Camilo Rebelo, is an important artistic and cultural moment, allowing the public to come into renewed contact with one of Portugal's greatest painters, and certainly the one who best helped make the transition from Symbolism to the fin-de-siècle.

Consisting of thematic sections, the exhibition also includes a relationship with contemporaneity, by showing a series of sculptural works by Miguel Branco, as if in a wide-ranging dialogue over time. Of the different sections that make up the exhibition, the following stand out: ‘The Landscape’ favours the artist's perhaps lesser-known works on the theme of the landscape, with a series of Marinhas and Noturnos, of delicate plastic invention and complex execution, highlighting the sense of dissolution of forms. The ‘Symbolist Key’ is concerned with highlighting how Carneiro's art first opened up to Symbolism. ‘The Family’ brings together some of the intimate images in which Carneiro portrayed his family in truly fascinating sensitive approaches.

The presence of the artist's works by Miguel Branco, with three sculptural centres, also seeks to show how a Symbolist echo still reverberates in contemporary times, which must be taken into account in terms of its ethical and aesthetic significance.