Exuvie, which derives from the Latin, means “shirt” or “empty skin”. This is the name given to the skin or shell dropped by insects, crustaceans, arachnids and reptiles during the moulting period. The need to release the exuvie follows the growth of each being, unlike...
Exuvie, which derives from the...
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Parasita is suspended in the vault of an old hermitage. It is an oil painting on paper, designed by Rita Ferreira for Projeto Travessa da Ermida. João Silvério is in the role of curator, although he claims that the work did not necessarily depend on...
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Papendrecht is Guido van der Werve’s solo exhibition at Monitor gallery in Lisbon, inaugurated on September 25.The Dutch artist’s career is unique. He began studying piano at the conservatory and gave up after just under a year. Then he studied classical archaeology, Russian and industrial...
Papendrecht is Guido van der W...
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Às Nove a Caminho is the title of Sara Mealha’s solo exhibition that opened on June 7 at Galeria Balcony in Lisbon. With a background in painting, the artist relies on several different supports, having in mind the unique traits of each approach. Às Nove...
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23 drawings by João Jacinto (Mafra, 1966) are gathered at the National Fine Arts Society in Lisbon, in the exhibition A chuva cai ao contrário, curated by Manuel Costa Cabral and Nuno Faria and organized by Fundação Carmona e Costa.Declining the invitation to hold a...
23 drawings by João Jacinto (...
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“We speak of houses like someone who speaks of soul itself”. This passage from the poem Prefácio, written by Herberto Helder in 1961 for the book A Colher na Boca, illustrates Ângela Ferreira’s work for the exhibition Dalaba: Sol d’Exil, through which she summons the house...
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“Painting begins where one can no longer speak of it, where words fail and drift away.” Júlio PomarPainters delving into painting, an open dialogue, that’s the proposal of the whole set of exhibitions of pairs of painters who are part of Sindicato dos Pintores, organized...
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“The act of considering the innovative architecture of the future is the unexpected equivalent of reflecting on primitive architecture.” The first sentence of the book entitled Primitive Future by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto introduces the proposed reflection through a set of 14 houses of his...
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Contemporary and sacred art, is this relationship (still) possible?In an attempt to answer this question, the exhibition Stray Gods | Deuses Extraviados, inaugurated on January 24 at Galeria Graça Brandão in Lisbon, extends and updates the dialogue between art and religion, distancing itself from the...
Contemporary and sacred art, i...
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Echo implies a repetition, in which the repeated element is not entirely loyal to its triggering event. It’s something slightly different, albeit never completely independent. It always resonates with what it was.Eco | Echo based on a true story entitles Luís Paulo Costa’s exhibition, curated...
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