Between the scale and weight of maritime borders in global political daily life, and the evidence of a sovereign element that sweeps everything in its different flows and currents, Entre Deux Eaux, by Adrien Missika, presents a geological era that calls for political and scientific...
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Founded by Bento Jesus Caraca, in collaboration with Manuel Rodrigues de Oliveira, Biblioteca COSMOS is a milestone in the Portuguese publishing landscape, in a period when knowledge was not democratised and illiteracy was dominant in Portugal. From this perspective, publishing a hundred books on general...
Founded by Bento Jesus Caraca,...
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The And Yet You Go On exhibition is an essay on humour and deviation. If we have to characterise it, then it belongs to the ambiguous but stimulating category of post-irony: humour can be a resource for a return to sincerity – the elementary purpose...
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The death of the gods starts with the birth of the sciences as founding, factual and fundamental disciplines of the being.Meanwhile, the death of magical thought bifurcated in the death of the gods and an approach to the poetic and phenomenological thought – here, no...
The death of the gods starts w...
Read MoreOver the last few months, on the occasion of the presentation of The Peepshow – Artists from the EDP Foundation Portuguese Art Collection, and of the B-Side series of talks, the maat and the Umbigo magazine had the privilege of talking to some of the...
Over the last few months, on t...
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Archive of Destruction is a constellation of images, excerpts, documents and files that portrays the paradox of archiving that which supposedly goes against its mnemonic and cultural, perennial and inalienable mission. In this digital and cumulative archive, Pedro Lagoa goes through the different metaphors and...
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Art works on a continuum. It is not just the space that matters; it is not just the filled canvas, the scratched paper, the sculpted block in the construction and deconstruction. Time is also fundamental; it is the record of a passage, of a gesture,...
Art works on a continuum. It i...
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Wanting to know the formula of art is as prepotent as wanting to know the formula of life. This does not mean that there are no patterns, behaviours or unknowns capable of being revealed by calculation and logic – a poetic and comprehensive logic, capable...
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The most extraordinary journey in the history of the arts took place in the imagination of a writer: at the age of 36, Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth, without ever having visited the site of the story, Iceland. In relation...
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The plant growing through the concrete cracks is a triumph of the cosmos. As time advances, the inert gives way to wear; the wind adds the dust needed for germination; chance, carried by a bird, kicked by the foot, pushed by water, places the seed...
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