JustLX 2018 has ended and it is time now for an audit, even if prematurely. Either way, and according to the organization, the art fair had a positive outcome, with the galleries declaring a “pleasant” number of sales.At the extreme side of ARCOlisboa, this was...
JustLX 2018 has ended and it i...
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Re Cordum. Voltar ao Coração 5 (2014) is an artwork by the Portuguese artist Vasco Araújo, exhibited at ARCOlisboa 2018, in the Galeria Horrach Moya’s booth.Five African busts represent the collective voice of a forgotten continent, delivered to its insignificance by the West. At the...
Re Cordum. Voltar ao Coração...
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Largo Residências docked in Largo do Intendente in 2011. That year, on July 1, even with its doors turned into a construction site, they occupied the former Pensão Pereira. They did not have a solid plan, rather an idea felt in the body of what could...
Largo Residências docked in L...
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The choice is important right from the beginning. Even when, because it is banal and inconsequential, we fail to realize that. Picking the queue on the right or the left to enter the “free room” of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II would mean, even before the start...
The choice is important righ...
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Hanns Schimansky is a German artist whose practice is rooted on drawing. The exhibition The Sound of Drawing, at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jeager, is the absolute synthesis of a language and expression that the author has been developing throughout decades which make the drawing –...
Hanns Schimansky is a German a...
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Filipe Cortez is an artist whose plastic abilities are unusual and unique. The reinterpretation of the canvases and the plethora of material that he uses implies a boundless, enlarged and plural understating of the artistic creation. He explores the fields of painting, drawing, sculpture and, especially, installation, through experimental forms before...
Filipe Cortez is an artist wh...
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Our social behaviour and interaction are developed according to very specific languages, within the landscapes in which we grow or live. This was the greatest discovery of gender studies which, in turn, forced a review of the canons of that time and a dilation of...
Our social behaviour and inter...
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Art fairs are ruled by specific, mostly inscrutable criteria and surely inaccessible to the majority of people. The rules to that selection are frequently shadowed and unrevealed in press notes or regulations, even though a greater transparency has been pursued lately. There’s no better nor...
Art fairs are ruled by specifi...
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Paterson, a quiet town in New Jersey, is the scenario picked by Jarmusch to portray the story of one man, Paterson (Adam Driver), who shares his name with the city, where time ticks slowly, with a sort of peacefulness and a calmness ever so typical of...
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Contemporary art has made its most acute path outside the big institutions. Independent movements and initiatives were of the utmost importance in the development of the artists’ works, but, above all, in the affirmation of the critic verve inherent to those works: the critic of...
Contemporary art has made its ...
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