When I visit exhibitions where I notice a minimalist aesthetic, I immediately recall Tony Smith’s peculiar story with his daughter when she was a child. She, upon seeing some of her father’s works - essentially cubes, concrete geometric shapes - asked him what he hid...
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Group exhibition with works by 35 artists, at Espaço Expositivo do Centro de Artes de Águeda, (IM)MATERIALITY is a tripartite approach to the notions of materiality and immateriality, seeking a state of apnoea, a grey zone between what is and what is not....
Group exhibition with works by...
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Curated by João Silvério, Tale About Urban Piracy opened on July 21 and will be at Museu Municipal de Coimbra - Edifício Chiado until September 4. This is an exhibition belonging to the 13th Festival das Artes QuebraJazz which brings to Coimbra works by 14...
Curated by João Silvério, Ta...
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With the presence of the Mayor of Coimbra City Hall José Manuel Silva; the Director-General for the Arts Américo Rodrigues; the Head of the Touristic Information and Animation Centre (NAIT) of Turismo Centro Portugal Carlos Figueiredo, and the Regional Director of the Central Region Culture...
With the presence of the Mayor...
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Field by Pedro Cabrita Reis, curated by Michael Short, is a sculpture in Venice’s Chiesa di San Fantin, in an action running alongside the Biennale’s current edition....
Field by Pedro Cabrita Reis, c...
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Our relation to the real is only a mental equation about what is laid out in front of us, something that is impossible to merely see. The wild eye, mentioned in the passage that I use as a preamble to this piece, is entirely utopian....
Our relation to the real is on...
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There is a non-transferable quality to submersion: ephemerality. The possibilities for resistance are endless, but a human body does not live underwater. It does not breathe. In the time of submersion, the literal body and the voice escape us. This is the warning of José...
There is a non-transferable qu...
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Part of the Ciclo Museu das Obsessões, curated by Ana Anacleto, No More Racing in Circles - Just Pacing within Lines of a Rectangle, by the artist Tris Vonna-Michell, is an exhibition that occupies the CAV, placing the viewers before countless references that take them...
Part of the Ciclo Museu das Ob...
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Inaugurated on July 4, 2020, the Coimbra Contemporary Art Centre (CACC) underlines the importance of this city in Portugal’s contemporary art, being part, according to José Maçãs de Carvalho, of the city’s cultural polygon. Corpo e Matéria is the first exhibition of a cycle of...
Inaugurated on July 4, 2020, t...
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Cães como nós [Dogs like us]At Círculo Sede of Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, until December 30, Looking at Animals reveals itself in the title. But the experience in situ, accompanied by the exhibition text by the curator João Silvério, elicits a reversal of...
Cães como nós [Dogs like us]...
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