Anthropomorphism is perhaps one of the oldest artistic manifestations of mankind, immediately after cave paintings. We have the fables in literature and, although Paulo Brighenti doesn’t rely on this stylistic approach, his sculptures seem to be ready to tell stories of long-gone times.Paulo Brighenti has...
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Handicrafts, including weaving and tapestry, have, for a long time, been associated with artistic efforts. The so-called manual labours have always been a domestic and feminine activity. Homer described it in Odyssey: Penelope was expecting Ulysses’ arrival and, as a way to avoid the horde...
Handicrafts, including weaving...
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Dialogues: Pirgo de Chaves, an object obtained from an archaeological excavation lends the title to Francisco Tropa’s exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. However, it’s the dialogues that are the true dynamo of the exhibition. Not only the dialogue that Tropa perennially establishes between the...
Dialogues: Pirgo de Chaves, an...
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A few years ago, an artist was only allowed to set an anthological exposition when they reached a reverential age. Fortunately, in this day and age, an anthology no longer means an elderly artist, but rather one that has a wide-ranging and significant body of...
A few years ago, an artist was...
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Drawing is the beginning. Before we learn how to write, we draw, even if rudimentarily. It is the recurring stepping stone of every artistic journey, it is the auxiliary method of artistic creation, it often is the support of the work of art behind the...
Drawing is the beginning. Befo...
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The Project Space – Modern Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum has worked as a lab for works or artists under a critical dialogue with contemporaneity or history. In this case, there is a story, several stories actually, all by women, which have motivated the...
The Project Space – Modern C...
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The Curatorial Award Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar/EGEAC has reached its third edition and honours a curatorial project of contemporary art. The winner, Marta Rema, presented a proposal for a collective exposition on the willingness to think about silence in its body, artistic, visual, temporal, political, real...
The Curatorial Award Atelier-M...
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Nuclear energy has countless positive applications but whenever we think about it, we remember two events: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Little Boy was the name of the first atomic bomb of all History, which razed with the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.The exhibition...
Nuclear energy has countless p...
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There are common characteristics that cross Pauliana Valente Pimentel’s artwork. The mise-en-scène, the thought composition. This notion of staging and scenography is transversal to all her works and is one of the formal characteristics that define her as an artist.In A Vida é Feita de...
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Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) simultaneously presents two exhibitions in Lisbon: Where I Am Free, at Fundação Carmona e Costa, and The Architecture of Life. Environments, Sculptures, Paintings and Films, at MAAT. These exhibitions are a partnership and complement each other. Where I Am Free is...
Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) sim...
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