(Português) Para a Europa, o exotismo (oriental) é lugar de uma abrangência tão mais total quanto mais incompreendida. Procurar domá-la, na figura dessa “boca de Krishna”, parece ser um dos ímpetos que dirigem a pulsão criativa da dupla catalã Albarrán Cabrera, cujo trabalho se mostra...
(Português) Para a Europa, o ...
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Plato founded a school of thought in the middle of the 4th century BC. He did not come up with the name he assigned it - he called it the "Academy" since it existed in a place owned by Academus....
Plato founded a school of thou...
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In 2023, fifty-five years will have passed since the PhD study that the then young anthropologist José Cutileiro finished at Oxford and published in England in 1971 under the title A Portuguese Rural Society (Clarendon Press). Illustrated with photographs by Gérard Castelo-Lopes and João Cutileiro...
In 2023, fifty-five years will...
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There is something joyful about reuniting people with their places. Even if a man disappears - either because he dies or goes away -, even if places fall apart (even more than we are used to accepting; we will still say "That place will always...
There is something joyful abou...
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The color is powerful: yellow, even if in an apparently inconspicuous detail, dominates an atmosphere and propagates into the sensations of contact with art. (It can even be, Proust’s narrative suggests, fatal.) It symbolizes the challenge and the acceptance of the game – the same...
The color is powerful: yellow,...
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The starting point of the exhibition O Dia Soturno was a reflection on notions of inspiration and artistic creation....
The starting point of the exhi...
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In 2011, the publisher Dafne issued a volume of studies by Vítor Silva on the 19th-century painter Henrique Pousão. The book - a gorgeous item -, besides the essays, includes inside the back cover a fold-out “Atlas of images”. When we open it, it shows...
In 2011, the publisher Dafne i...
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In Atmosfera, Ambiência, Stimmung, Hans Gumbrecht addresses a “hidden power” of the arts to overcome the tension between cultural studies and a deconstructivist approach to the artistic phenomenon....
In Atmosfera, Ambiência, Stim...
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To orient ourselves in a new building requires us to master the space as if we were performing a kind of cartographic movement. Whether mental, printed, digital, more materialized or intangible, the map is a fundamental instrument - an auxiliary piece to build foundations of...
To orient ourselves in a new b...
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Digital arts are the main target of Museu Zer0; the very name of the Museum projects the idea of a reflexive nullity on non-existence, absence, non-presence, non-materiality. One of the consequences of thinking of a museological locus as a non-space may be the atomization of...
Digital arts are the main targ...
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