UMBIGO is in solidarity with people who are quarantined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, we provide, on the link below, Umbigo Magazine # 71 (free pdf download of the printed edition) to encourage reading at home. #stayhomestaysafe [elfsight_file_embed id="3"] ...
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JUST BEFORE WE BEGIN as a show and title points to the pre-discursive, sensation-based domain which precedes the consolidation of concept. Concept is constructed through justification. Just before we begin there may be a void, where the materials are provided from which a discourse can...
JUST BEFORE WE BEGIN as a show...
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The silence has been a cause for reflection among many authors and artists. Able to summon a creative and meditative spirit, silence is synonymous with interiority, peace, consolation, but also melancholy and solitude. Also, it is a vote, a political position, a manifestation that, albeit...
The silence has been a cause f...
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The language and form of stone is a language of time, a form of time. The cells of the land, an elemental composite of rock, stone is also a testimony of labour, of utility, of community, of settlement. It is the polished stone and the...
The language and form of stone...
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With the participation of 50 exhibition spaces and galleries from eight different countries, helmed by artistic director, Semíramis González, JUSTMAD, now in its eleventh edition, sets itself upon the themes of sustainability, the environment and feminism. The theme of Feminism is central to this year´s...
With the participation of 50 e...
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Now for the third consecutive year, Umbigo once again shall be present at ARCOmadrid with its own booth.Following suit of the previous two years, in which the booth was host to works by artists Jorge Santos, Rita Gaspar Vieira, and Nuno Sousa Vieira, this year...
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The digital field is a labyrinth of texts, contexts, hypertexts, images and myths which construct and deconstruct fairly often, full of references, hyperlinks and different characters. It’s a labyrinth as dense as the labyrinth of the cosmos, as complex as the Daedalus labyrinth. Within this...
The digital field is a labyrin...
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José de Guimarães is one of the most accomplished Portuguese artists with a fruitful and envied career. At 80, with 60 years of work, Guimarães is a worldly artist, packed with stories and histories, always changing and turbulent, surely, but no less rich for the...
José de Guimarães is one of ...
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Until January 6, it is possible to visit some of the exhibitions of the I International Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery. Divided into several well-known spaces in the city, such as Museu de Tapeçaria, Convento de São Francisco/Fundação Robinson and Biblioteca Municipal, this exhibition presents pieces by...
Until January 6, it is possibl...
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The History of Art is also the history of colour. For centuries, blue was the colour that was most prone to regulation. Expensive, always in small amounts since lapis lazuli was scarce and had to travel a whole sea to be reduced into dust, blue...
The History of Art is also the...
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