{1} Here is my attempt to keep hold of the turmoil that took root inside me and to record what it meant, in my tender twenties, to abandon the cerebral structures of Brazilian Concretism championed by my teacher, in favour of the putrefaction of Francis Bacon....
{1} Here is my attempt to keep...
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I question myself, and try to engage the world not only through symbols, literature and the possibilities of my body, but also through my art — in them, I seek not the ultimate truth, but a truth I could live with....
I question myself, and try to ...
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When writing, towards the end of a personal letter, the quote that gives its name to the exhibition at Fidelidade Arte curated by Marquise, Blaise Pascal elicits perhaps the most pearly artistic instinct - if time is bound up with entropy, would art not be...
When writing, towards the end ...
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Sabine Hornig explores the plastic and political implications of transparency in The Matter of the Glazed Fence. Not for nothing, matter in the title of the show means question as well: in a scenario of social unrest gripped by conservative, anti-migrant and hygienic policies, what...
Sabine Hornig explores the pla...
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The exhibition Don't Take It Too Seriously endeavours to understand how art not only explores the ironic temperament, but above all finds existential alternatives within irony. Despite their different backgrounds and temperaments, the six artists featured here have the same interest in the implicit and...
The exhibition Don't Take It T...
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In Perpetual Motion Machine, Pedro Moreira also rehearses similar relationships. His apocalyptic mythopoetry, in which four tripplesapiens creatures - embodying the ideals of Truth, Neutrality, Chaos, and Order - inhabit the parallel reality Domain, is worked on here as both literature and fine art....
In Perpetual Motion Machine, P...
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According to Tolkien's cosmogony in The Silmarillion, the world went forth into existence by the choir of the Ainur spirits, manifesting all things. ‘And the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void’....
According to Tolkien's cosmogo...
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Fundação Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva, now run by Nuno Faria, is striving to achieve a balance between preserving what is and welcoming what can be. The exhibition 331 Mulberry Trees in Metamorphosis merges new readings of past works and historical interpretations of current ones....
Fundação Arpad Szenes-Vieira...
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If the dawn of science is often regarded as the great thrust of modernity, the instruments it has spawned are the ones that have allowed us to test and manifest its precepts. Roger Bacon praised armillary spheres, magnets and narcotic cures in the thirteenth century...
If the dawn of science is ofte...
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By first displaying tapestries made as copies of paintings, and then showing works whose plastic elements are intrinsic to the tapestry itself, Não Vá o Diablo Tecê-las! combines and expands on these tensions. The first floor features tapestries from the well-known Manufactura de Portalegre alongside...
By first displaying tapestries...
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