Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) simultaneously presents two exhibitions in Lisbon: Where I Am Free, at Fundação Carmona e Costa, and The Architecture of Life. Environments, Sculptures, Paintings and Films, at MAAT. These exhibitions are a partnership and complement each other. Where I Am Free is...
Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) sim...
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Contemporary and sacred art, is this relationship (still) possible?In an attempt to answer this question, the exhibition Stray Gods | Deuses Extraviados, inaugurated on January 24 at Galeria Graça Brandão in Lisbon, extends and updates the dialogue between art and religion, distancing itself from the...
Contemporary and sacred art, i...
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In Public, the Australian Gerry Bibby forces art to look outside. The whole area of Maumaus’ Lumiar Cité is somehow turned inside out and the exhibition is geared towards the exterior, taking advantage of the gallery’s glass walls.Since the space itself seems to have been...
In Public, the Australian Gerr...
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Fernando Lanhas and Álvaro Lapa are two pivotal and emblematic figures in Portuguese contemporary art, particularly from the second half of the 20th century. At first, reflecting about them can be a separate and distinct effort, taking into account the traits and particularities of each...
Fernando Lanhas and Álvaro La...
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Forget the sarcasm and think about beauty. In the context of art residencies promoted by ArtWorks, the expression ‘the fine flower of the rubble’ (the English translation of a well-known Portuguese saying) gets quite close to A Flor e o Espinho, a song by Nelson...
Forget the sarcasm and think a...
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A project for an exhibition-installation by Paulo MendesPaulo Mendes’s most recent exhibition is held in Campanhã, at Espaço Mira, which is simultaneously the artist’s photography, video, study and research outcome.The film-based depiction of that Porto area opens and closes the installation, using two projection panels...
A project for an exhibition-in...
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As a Portuguese, white and privileged woman, living in the postcolonial era, Rita GT, currently residing between Viana do Castelo and Luanda, theorizes and develops her artistic effort. A consistent and recognizable body of work that materializes itself in the simultaneous use of different media:...
As a Portuguese, white and pri...
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Diogo Evangelista works in the field of installation, relying on video or sculpture, but always using a pictorial basis as his starting point. In Organic Machinery, we can see the drawings, although, in this case, the homonymous video was the trigger of the whole set...
Diogo Evangelista works in the...
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Tanel Veenre is an Estonian jeweller and designer. He was born in Estonia to a family of musicians 1977 and studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts, where he graduated in 2005 after taking part in an exchange program with the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.This...
Tanel Veenre is an Estonian je...
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An exhibition trilogy that questions yet another trilogy: Art, Audience and GalleryMarguerite Dura’s poem Negative Hands entitles the collective exhibition of Hugo Canoilas, Vasco Costa and Filipe Feijão, at Galeria Quadrado Azul, in Alvalade, Lisbon. This exhibition intends to introduce the collective artistic project dubbed...
An exhibition trilogy that que...
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