I was already familiar with the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Venice. In 2019, the artist Joan Jonas had a didactic installation entitled Moving Off the Land II, with drawings and videos in a tribute to marine species and their great diversity. This venue and...
I was already familiar with th...
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My visit to the Venice Biennale started by the Giardini della Biennale. This public park houses most of the National Pavilions and one of the group exhibitions (The Milk of Dreams: o mesmo, diferente )....
My visit to the Venice Biennal...
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In mid-May, all over Italy, white pollen particles fluttered through the streets, accumulating in less windy areas as small, soft, fragile clouds. This phenomenon, which also swept through Venice, coincidentally framed the main idea of the curator Cecilia Alemani. Choosing to display a comprehensive view...
In mid-May, all over Italy, wh...
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While I was writing about For Laura by Jaime Welsh, I realised the daunting task of grading a visit to the exhibition at Galeria Madragoa. These three photographs are the consequence of a painstaking method of visual conception, but they also stem from a rather...
While I was writing about For ...
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With brilliant, mediocre, insensitive, or protesting ideas, artists insist on daily studio work, choosing to ignore the crisis that is brewing or contributing to its critique (depending on the point of view). From a historical standpoint, art reflects issues of contemporary social and political life....
With brilliant, mediocre, inse...
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Oscar Giaconia shows his work for the first time in Lisbon with the set CRYPTOZOOGODEMICHET at MONITOR Lisbon. There are seven bodies that emerge in a language of various layers and transparencies. These emphasize the artist’s knowledge and practice: to build a symbiosis between the...
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Casa da Cerca’s circular cistern serves as a shelter for Raposa, an installation by André Romão. The artist recovers a recurring object in his work: the reflection on the encounter between bodies and the synthesis of our existence. This materialisation is the expression of the...
Casa da Cerca’s circular cis...
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In modern utopia, the island is where the balance lies between nature and men thriving in social, political, ecological, and economic harmony. These ideals are presented from a universal and merely descriptive point of view in the following structure: the account of the space, its...
In modern utopia, the island i...
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Galeria Zé dos Bois opened three new exhibitions, propelled by the cultural venues’ reopening.The artists Patrícia Almeida, Fala Mariam and AnaMary Bilbao, with their aesthetics, create a set of dreams, with different protagonists, interpolating various sensorial impressions. The oneiric dimension is unique, a personal way...
Galeria Zé dos Bois opened th...
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server not found is a series of investigative interviews where the cultural paradigm is debated: a critical and collective archive on visual arts, performance, theatre, music and cinema. In the first issue of snf, I talk to the artistic director and curator of Casa da...
server not found is a series o...
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