Over 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...
Archive of Destruction is a co...
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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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By the end of 2018, the first news appeared: a few hundred Hondurans had left their country for the United States of America. They walked slowly, as they could, with the few belongings on their backs and the children on their lap. In the usual...
By the end of 2018, the first ...
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Biennials are the most important and interesting phenomenon in contemporary art. After the Venice Biennale, many other similar models were revised with new geographies, concepts and ways of working the art, history, politics. Many biennials have become institutions, and as a consequence of their subsequent...
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The studio is a space of uninterrupted constructions and the exercise of art is an extended autopsychography, where the artist builds himself through practice. The result is often a product composed of memories, frustrations, successes and failures, sorrows and joys. It is a silent process,...
The studio is a space of unint...
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“It's all there—all through history we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth.” Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart (1985) The most neglected aspect of...
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