In Lisbon, when walking up to 30 Rua do Monte Olivete, the storefront shows us a painting that actually resembles a relic. The relic is a metal plate (later we find that it is actually a working die) with a reversed inscription that requires some...
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“Perhaps the most important creative activity in my life was not pictorial”, these are the words of Manuel Costa Cabral, who in 1963 graduated in painting from the Superior School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. His professional career was not merely confined to working in...
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The work of the German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta stands out due to its impactful portraits of female protagonists, with a political and social charged environment. The Leaden Time (1981) and Rosa Luxemburg (1986) are examples of this reality.Produced in 2012, Hannah Arendt, portrayed by...
The work of the German filmmak...
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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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