If a work of art is timeless, can a permanent collection (without new acquisitions) have no end; be infinite?This seems to be one of the most debated questions by museum institutions in recent years. It is also discussed by Ana Rito and Hugo Barata, curators...
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In Mariana Barrote’s first solo exhibition at Sala 117, drawings, paintings, video and small objects articulate themselves, literally, in the construction of visual narratives and poetry. The different media used contribute to make drawing, first as a matrix, expand trans-disciplinarily, expanding the heterogeneous nature of...
In Mariana Barrote’s first s...
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Following last year´s section on Latin America, Art Paris' Southern Stars is set to present the art scenes of the Iberian cities Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Porto. Curating this section is independent exhibition curator, Carolina Grau. Carolina has worked as a curator for the last...
Following last year´s section...
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Dora Maar (1907-1997), an artist who is best known for her surrealist photography, was forgotten in life. Only after her death was she remembered and appreciated.The retrospective of her work, until March 15 at the Tate Modern in London, shows much of this surrealist photography,...
Dora Maar (1907-1997), an arti...
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ENDIVESMOKE / PINK ORCHID / ENDIVESEAFOAM / YELLOW / YELLOWOFF WHITE / CELERYCELERY / SEAFOAMSTEEL / SLATE / SLATESTEEL What is this? An arbitrary sequence of words, a coded message or an odd poem...
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The sculpture was born public, between architecture and ornament: "the smaller the object the closer one approaches it and, therefore, it has correspondingly less of a spatial field in which to exist for the viewer."[i] At Galeria 3+1, Mode of use, by Claire de Santa...
The sculpture was born public,...
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Mariana Gomes has been one of the Portuguese painters with the most exciting work. The humorous (and constant) fluctuations between figuration and abstraction, through drawing or three-dimensional modelling, always lead us to the central subject of her work: making something out of painting.Perhaps this is...
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation arrives in the south of the country, at the Palácio da Galeria/Museu Municipal de Tavira, in an exhibition dedicated to the sea – something extremely important for the region. It runs until 23 February 2020, in a special year for Tavira:...
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In her most recent exhibition, Carla Filipe transports the city into the gallery. Using codes that reveal the common idea of the urban centre, Filipe’s fictitious scenery is chaotic, uncomfortable and fascinating.This game between the scenic side and the context in which it is inserted...
In her most recent exhibition,...
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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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