Portugal has a long history in what concerns ceramics. The countless tiles that cover homes and patrimony in Lisbon, as well as the decorative arts which reveal what was the main taste of the Portuguese nobles and elite, are a testimony to that. A taste...
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The current local election campaign prompts a period of reflection to reckon, among other things, the sort of image that parties and political candidates rely on to establish communication with citizens. Political billboards emerge one after the other, with worn-out slogans, a barely tolerable printing...
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Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (The National Museum of Ancient Art – MNAA) has been welcoming in recent times a series of temporary exhibitions celebrated through partnerships with foreign museums. It happened in the past with Prado Museum, which materialized the wonderful exhibition: Rubens, Brueghel,...
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We are living the hypermodernity. Or, alternatively, we are living the post-contemporary era. The fluidity of time and space takes us through an automatic vortex, one that the bodies try to follow in an uncritical way, all to no avail.Gilles Lipovetsky coined the expression The...
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Portugal occasionally holds that sort of exhibitions which fall into the realm of interculturalism and migrate from one side of the world to be displayed right here. Fundação Oriente has gone the extra mile to bring a fair share of eastern culture so that the...
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Photos: António Jorge Silva.The exhibition of Fernanda Fragateiro is both an exercise of art and architecture, an ambiguity which can be admired with the same degree of admiration in names like Gordon Matta-Clark or Donald Judd.Space has always been the artist’s main concern and medium:...
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Photos: Francisco Ferreira.The exhibition Tudo o que é profundo ama a máscara [Whatever is profound loves the mask] aims to question the viewer about the ontic trait of the mask. And studying this ontology of the mask is to, necessarily, understand its bewildering essence, of...
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“How much weight can the memory stand?” This is the starting point of the room’s brochure authored by Miguel von Hafe Pérez, available at the exhibition Nasci num dia curto de inverno (I was born on a short day of winter), conceived by the artist...
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Absolute Duration, the brand new exhibition held by Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, is an essay focused on a place now in shambles. Upon entering Palácio Pombal in Lisbon, the weight of time is thoroughly mirrored in its interior. Time is the element in charge...
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Photos: Nuno Vieira /Fundação Oriente.The exhibition O Olhar da Sibila - Corporalidade e Transfiguração is based on the concept of metamorphosis developed by Ovid: bodies transmute themselves into things, things into animals, animals into being; the perennial transformation of the cosmos, from its dawn to its...
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