João Penalva (1949) has a consistent body of work, endeavouring on memorabilia in an almost anthropological manner. There is a stubborn and thorough research methodology in João Penalva, with no stone left unturned: each show of his is a whole compendium, a unique realm between reality and fiction, empowering the visitor's...
João Penalva (1949) has a ...
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(poems by Maria Fernandes after the photos and titles by Fedra Espiga Pinto)—11 months healinguntil deafness is curdleduntil curds are broken in all the measure of a blurred shadowuntil the gush of boiling lava – cervical witness – of the existence of—strange bodyat the centre inverse of a revealed essence:– flash and a...
(poems by Maria Fernandes afte...
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The exhibition Penumbra: textured shadow, coloured light curated by Eva MacGraw and Tatiana Palinkasev opened on the 3rd of October at Saatchi Gallery, London, and presents the Bahraini artist’s, Rashid Al Khalifa, most recent tridimensional work.On painted aluminium surfaces the artist creates small openings revealing...
The exhibition Penumbra: textu...
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Lisbon, 15.02.2018 Maria Terreira has soft hands and a nose that looks like a ski ramp into love. Maria Terreira speaks little English and lives in a heavy building with young plaster, which looks old beside the lively main street. The floor of her apartment is...
Lisbon, 15.02.2018 ...
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Contemporary art has multiple aspects, it is plural, heterogeneous and perennially innovative. While it moves forward at the same pace of present-day time and modernity, much of the ramifications of artistic creation still lie in the past, particularly the very first ones, and therefore, they...
Contemporary art has multiple ...
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Marcius Galan exhibits Galeria Francisco Fino in Exercício de Divisão. Or is it the other way around? The Brazilian artist works in the limits of perception and his most recent installation in Lisbon, curated by Inês Grosso, takes cues from the gallery space to fictionalize...
Marcius Galan exhibits Galeria...
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When he lectured on the conference Conflito e Unidade na Arte, Mário Dionísio opened a caesura in the artistic expression of the 50s. If, until that point, it was believed that art, according to the communist and neorealist conception, would have to abstain from abstract and...
When he lectured on the confer...
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Matt Mullican returns to Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art after 5 years, presenting a survey show that embraces the gallery’s space with the question WHAT DO THEY FEEL?, through colors, human being, life and dead. What do you want to transmit with the series Language and Sign,...
Matt Mullican returns to Crist...
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Sit down and watch the time go by in the living room, in the bedroom, in the office, in the studio – an attentive stone by the side of a window.Wait for the twilight and the low, golden, orange light.Watch the sunrays drawn on the wall,...
Sit down and watch the time go...
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The 3rd edition of Poster Mostra happens From September 29 to October 29, once again in Marvila. Before that, Umbigo accomplished something we wanted to do since the first edition: follow one of the Mini Poster workshops with children and young people of social institutions, perceiving,...
The 3rd edition of Poster Most...
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