Books are papers daubed with ink. The painting is ink scattered on the canvas. This is the basic principle of formalism which downsized art to its materiality: ink, canvas, iron, stone, graphite. The art was, therefore, the free exploration of physical and expressive thresholds of...
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Bela Silva is a Portuguese artist who is currently living and working in Belgium, with an outstanding work that is often associated with ceramics. Her resume includes globally and nationally renowned museums and institutions, having already conducted work in Asia, where ceramics are regarded as...
Bela Silva is a Portuguese art...
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The New Art Fest is an extremely recent art fest that has already managed to fuel contemporary art in Portugal and establish itself a legitimate project, capable of serving an audience that is interested to witness how art and technology are intertwined.The 2017 edition has...
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Geography has been an implicit and an ever-present representation in art and, if we want, in the art history. As an objective science, or one that aims to be that, geography measures the physical aspects – spatial and temporal – of places. But these places...
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Created by João Silvério, EMPTY CUBE is a curatorial project which is now about to reach its ten-year anniversary. Over this period, a vast array of things have changed in the world of art which, more or less, is in tune with the fluctuations and...
Created by João Silvério, EM...
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We are on a pilgrimage in the name of art. Or art is on pilgrimage in our name – this if we rely on the assumption that art is an active property that exists for us and to us. That lives in us. The title...
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Spaces of creation | Blurs of creationCapturing the creative process is a strenuous task, sometimes even inglorious. It is as if one wanted to hold something invisible, unutterable, solely perceived by some. It is a continued strength that shows itself on a continuum, measured in the remnants conceived...
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The contemporaneity blew the whistle on the ethnocentrism and patriarchy of the history of art and the art system. The cultural hegemony of the west was questioned with the continual revision of criteria, agents and models that prevailed until the 60s/70s. The feminist struggle was...
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Tiphaigne de la Roche predicted in 1760 a method “to fixate elusive images (…) with which a painting could open itself in a blink of an eye”, in a time when Talbot, Daguerre and Herschel had yet to start their revolutionary experiences and breakthroughs which...
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Pedro Valdez Cardoso has been enjoying a career filled with exhibitions and productions, having several of his endeavours as part of multiple national collections. His attention to the archaeology of the places and memories allows him to engage in exhibitions whose narratives and curatorial lines...
Pedro Valdez Cardoso has been ...
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