An exhibition assembled against the artists and the space they advocate for their work is doomed to failure.An exhibition that expands itself to encompass more than one hundred authors, not far from two hundred, is doomed to failure.An exhibition that articulates a never-ending array of...
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Handicrafts, including weaving and tapestry, have, for a long time, been associated with artistic efforts. The so-called manual labours have always been a domestic and feminine activity. Homer described it in Odyssey: Penelope was expecting Ulysses’ arrival and, as a way to avoid the horde...
Handicrafts, including weaving...
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Pedro Tudela (Viseu, 1962) entitles his most recent project >e(c(o<, an unusual and exquisitely graphic one, with several letters and characters that assemble, open and enclose the word eco. The artist says it is about summoning the repetition, the replica, while simultaneously exploring the prefix...
Pedro Tudela (Viseu, 1962) ent...
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I first discovered Adrián Balseca at the 2018 edition of ARCOlisboa art where the gallery Madragoa exhibited his 8:28 minute loop video El Cóndor pasa. Produced in 2015, the digital work sets a dusty and spectral diurnal scenery for the tribulations of a black AYMESA...
I first discovered Adrián Bal...
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Full of stories and colours, this Theatre Circus makes us want to enter in a unique, surreal and burlesque environment. The breath-taking façade, with a mixture of toughness and seduction, is a fine line between elegance and roughness. The outcome is a charming and rather...
Full of stories and colours, t...
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Nocturno is the site-specific installation that marks the return of the Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto to our country, shown at Appleton Square until June 22, curated by David Barro. Sharing the title of the exhibition held last May at the Casa Triângulo gallery, in São...
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Dialogues: Pirgo de Chaves, an object obtained from an archaeological excavation lends the title to Francisco Tropa’s exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. However, it’s the dialogues that are the true dynamo of the exhibition. Not only the dialogue that Tropa perennially establishes between the...
Dialogues: Pirgo de Chaves, an...
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Gonçalo Conde has been feeling the urge to be connected to the art realm since he was 13. His greatest passion is fashion, but the gateway to this world has been the antiquities he has collected since his twenties. Life led him to opt for...
Gonçalo Conde has been feelin...
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J. Mascis runs the risk of looking like an adult who refuses to leave his teen years behind, but is that actually a bad thing? His long white hair, often topped by trucker hats, thick and round-framed glasses, t-shirts with odd drawings, not that far...
J. Mascis runs the risk of loo...
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Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn is an exhibition assembled by Pedro Gadanho and Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues, whose leitmotif is the evocation of Photoshop’s thirtieth anniversary and the consequent banalization of digital tools in photography, it is found at MAAT’s Main...
Fiction and Fabrication. Photo...
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