Jorge Barradas (1894 -1971) was a Portuguese painter, ceramist, illustrator, caricaturist and graphic artist.One could open any biographical essay on Jorge Barradas with a similar sentence. But, according to the current narrative, it would make more sense to talk about the artist as an artist:...
Jorge Barradas (1894 -1971) wa...
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Two diverging stairways separate Vera Mota’s Haze from João Penalva’s Primos. Appleton Associação Cultural is known for the simultaneous duality between what is on the ground floor (SQUARE) and what is in the basement (BOX)....
Two diverging stairways separa...
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By creating language, we have set ourselves apart from other living beings by developing unique methods and means of communication. We created a language that substituted gestures and silence with a lexicon. Humans started describing and representing reality using words and intricate semantic structures. These...
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We are somewhere between the year of our birth and demise. We enter an irregular room, with jagged corners and nooks. The light is low and focused, just like the ceiling. In the background, amidst the intoxicating tobacco smoke, Isabella Rossilini wears a blue velvet...
We are somewhere between the y...
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Perhaps this is the first gesture for the geodesic reference of a place. I dare say that the second is the one that José Pedro Croft pursues in Et sic in infinitum: the circle....
Perhaps this is the first gest...
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The jamb is one of the furnishing parts of a doorway. In this doorway, the lintel is the ceiling and the sill is the floor. This composition of elements, together with the depth, recall the romantic idea of the doorway as a threshold (the threshold...
The jamb is one of the furnish...
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There is an experimentation lab in Maat’s oval room. It could be the stage sitting for a NASA test programme or perhaps the scene of a sci-fi plot, but it is a retrospective of Didier Fiúza Faustino’s (France, 1968) work over the last three decades....
There is an experimentation la...
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Earth is the ground we tread and excavate to know and create the memory, find the ruin, extract, and subtract. Earth is the place where we belong; where we come from. Earth is a circumscribed territory. Earth is the third planet from the sun and...
Earth is the ground we tread a...
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An independent space is managed as an alternative, a space outside the institutional system....
An independent space is manage...
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"The portuguese language abounds in words for gardens; besides quinta, a garden behind a dwelling house is called quintal, a garden for any particular object jardim, for instance jardim botânico, and a kitchen-garden, whether open or inclosed with hedges, horta"[ii] Hortus Conclusus is by definition a...
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