After an extensive period dedicated to the studying of contemporary art, one may think that there are a certain gesture and formula that might turn the works and exhibitions into something repetitive and obvious. The same subjects, the same forms of spatial occupation, the same...
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Returning to the Azores is something equally natural and mandatory, once you are acquainted with the island. I have already written (Umbigo # 65) that there is something in that atmosphere that makes us get attached to it. More: it shakes our core. Of paramount...
Returning to the Azores is som...
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By Maria FernandesThrough which perspective can one see a new geographical reality and what are the eyes looking for, in the newly captured surroundings, when an endless torrent of odours and sounds take control of the senses of the stranger in the parish of Prazeres,...
By Maria FernandesThrough ...
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After Rui Chafes, Julião Sarmento and Pedro Cabrita Reis, the work of Luísa Cunha is now dialoguing with the one of Júlio Pomar, in the exhibition O Material Não Aguenta, curated by Sara Antónia Matos. The exhibition is the continuation of the annual exhibition programme...
After Rui Chafes, Julião Sarm...
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There are countless exhibitions whose curators are crucial for their inception and some may even be considered curator exhibitions, such is their relevance, either by choice or because the exhibition came to fruition after the artist has accepted the curator’s invitation.Al Cartio and Constance Ruth...
There are countless exhibition...
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With the curatorship of Luísa Sampaio and Rune Frederiksen, the sculpture exhibition in the main gallery of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is currently the most important show at this institution. It cannot simply be missed and it will be open until the end of February.Structured on the similarities...
With the curatorship of Luís...
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Andreia Santana presents, at Galeria Filomena Soares, The Outcast manufacturers, an exhibition that gathers a group of iron sculptures made by the artist.Curved rods with sinuous filaments are contorted and evolve throughout the gallery, constituting linear structures in black and summoning the essential element of...
Andreia Santana presents, at G...
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Imbéciles, je vous pardonne; mais ressouvenez-vous que sans les sens il n’y a point de mémoire, et que sans la mémoire il n’y a point d’esprit. Aventure de la Mémoire (1773), Voltaire The first step toward oblivion is the tiny erasure gestures. The second step is to do...
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Aim, shoot, capture, take. Words with a double meaning that are related to two seemingly different universes but whose movements and actions, when seen, are formidably similar. Hunting and photography share the same lexicon which flows into two different discourses. As Wittgenstein noted, there are...
Aim, shoot, capture, take. Wor...
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Sculpture materializes the artist's thinking through a handmade effort. It is a deeply physical form of art and the one who exercises it has to have much more than just an idea’s conception and projection. Chuva, currently on exhibition at Appleton Associação Cultural, is an installation made of pieces...
Sculpture materializes the art...
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