Whether it is a workstation or a materials lab, Fernanda Fragateiro, in Appleton’s square, stages relationships between different working tools, usually found in art studios: books, sketches; a small drawing of a pattern provokes repetitions and attempts; we encounter variations of previous works and references...
Whether it is a workstation or...
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Adriana Proganó, Alice dos Reis, Eduardo Fonseca e Silva + Francisca Valador, Jaime Welsh, Lea Managil, and Sara Graça are the artists in this group exhibition, which the Madragoa Gallery presents as a result of a homework.Despite the similarities of the title with the school...
Adriana Proganó, Alice dos Re...
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The timelessness of art is related to the ability of some works to remain current – “contemporary” – as they distance themselves from the moment of creation. Some works only respond, or have that ambition, to an immediate need of their time. Others, remaining the...
The timelessness of art is rel...
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Pedro Valdez Cardoso presents at Appleton’s box an installation that tests the elasticity of a genre whose definition is comprehensive and imprecise, just like the very concept of “contemporary art”. P.V. Cardoso’s project is a deactivated scenography, a play where the audience will always arrive...
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Pauline Foessel is the director and co-founder of the Underdogs gallery in Marvila, Lisbon. The project, originally associated with urban art, has increased its reputation in this scene, filling a space they identified in the Portuguese artistic reality. During the pandemic, we did a retrospective...
Pauline Foessel is the directo...
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Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca are showing in Lisbon, at the Galeria de Boavista, two video installations. On the lower floor, RISE (2018) and, on the upper floor, the piece that shares the exhibition’s title, You are seeing things (2016). The duo’s growth, and...
Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin d...
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Art in strange timesIt’s strange to write about art in this dark moment. To write and think about the global threat of a pandemic that has suddenly put millions of lives and the health of us all at risk.I must say that, for better or...
Art in strange timesIt’s...
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Curated by Emília Ferreira and Hugo Dinis, in Encontro às Cegas we should not expect expectations to match reality. If we do, we may feel misled in the end. After all, if a meeting is based on the present and a presence, inside the MNAC...
Curated by Emília Ferreira an...
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This text is the consequence of two first encounters: one with the work of the artist Túlia Saldanha. Until her retrospective in 2014 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, she was practically unknown in the Portuguese artistic and cultural milieu; and the second encounter in a...
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If a work of art is timeless, can a permanent collection (without new acquisitions) have no end; be infinite?This seems to be one of the most debated questions by museum institutions in recent years. It is also discussed by Ana Rito and Hugo Barata, curators...
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