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The subway stations of big cities are the biggest and most authentic anthropological, sociological and performative laboratories of modernity. Places of passage, places of diverse fluxes, the subway synthetises the urban experience in what it has of solitary, aggregative, frenetic, delirious and ambiguous. (Even its...

The subway stations of big cit...

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Estudos do Labirinto

Estudos do Labirinto (Labyrinth-Studien) is a four-point composite installation. Casinfância, more specifically Cláudia Ramos, the project’s curator, invited eight artists to create pieces for four museological spaces in Belém-Lisboa, in an artistic residence, to edify an intrinsic relationship between “the art of today”, the so-called...

Estudos do Labirinto (Labyrint...

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Carlos Mensil

A solo exhibition born out of nothingness was inaugurated on June 9 at Galeria Presença. Carlos Mensil thinks about the future to develop a work which frees himself from the present-day moment, something which contemporary creators are often shackled to.The artist believes that belonging to a particular culture and society does not constitute an...

A solo exhibition born out of ...

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After the image and the word, the music

João Louro is an artist whose work feeds off signs and meanings and what lies between the image and the word. The definition of both is variable, interchangeable, resulting in deviations, errors or redefinitions from a conceptual and plastic standpoint. A word in a dictionary...

João Louro is an artist whose...

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Open Work

Mariana Dias Coutinho is exhibiting, until 11 June, in the gallery of Livraria Sá da Costa, eleven pieces gathered under the unusual title Oh si cariño.Eleven floor-and-wall sculptures with a blatant procedural independence, grouped under the title’s erotizing metaphor, address conditions related with the body,...

Mariana Dias Coutinho is exhib...

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