Directed by the Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev, Loveless portrays the disruptive relationship between a middle-class couple, Boris (Alexey Rozin) and Zhenya (Maryana Spivak), who have in divorce the only way out. They still have a common link, their son, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov). Named for the Academy’s Best Foreign Film in 2018, Zvyagintsev had already made a name for himself in...
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“My conscience is perfectly aligned with the horizon and is borne from oil.” Nikolai NekhMy conscience is oil – perhaps the most concise statement of Nikolai Nekh’s work – is the acknowledgement of a turning point of an ontological perspective on the man. Before this...
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An artistic manifestation, in the strict sense of the term, requires many names; many voices. It requires diversity and multiplicity; number and gender; and, above all, a variety of expressions, techniques and means used by those names, voices, artists. The unambiguous or convergent overtone of...
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Contemporaneity has given more independence and autonomy to the creation of artistic projects and platforms. The bond between exhibitions and the institutional constraints of museums and galleries is no longer dominant, opening up space for dialogs between other venues and works of art. In this...
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The Jardins Efémeros project is about to reach its eighth edition, an example of resilience in the contemporary art of Viseu. Over the years, this project/platform has tried to solidify relations between artists, curators, researchers and citizens, using at the same time the city’s iconic spaces...
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Text by Felipe Raizer*According to the Czech philosopher Vilém Flusser in The Philosophy of the Black Box photographs are not objective documents about the world but yet visual surfaces that express codified concepts. The device that produces them is programmed to interpret the world according...
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Casa Pau-Brasil welcomes the exhibition Disciplina de Ver [Discipline of Seeing], by Paula Clerman and curated by Thiago Verardi.Clerman works the space and time, specifically the space that have been relinquished to time. Alternatively, she works the architecture of spaces in their lonely or eager dimensions, spaces that are waiting to be...
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When we visit Manuel Rosa’s anthological exhibition at the National Society of Fine Arts, we are at first affected, impressed, impregnated by the transparent silent curtain of the 66 exhibited works.Albeit the profusion of materials used – limestone, clay, plaster, bronze, iron, moulding sand, glass, etc. – and despite their thematic and formal diversity, these sculptures coexist harmoniously in...
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"The child, when a child, asked questions like these:Why am I myself and not you?Why am I here and not there?When did time start and where does space end?Is life under the sun not just a dream?Is this not just the appearance of a world...
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Text by Sebnem SoherTwo weeks ago, as a part of the group exhibition ECO (DA IDEIA À OBRA DE ARTE)[1] in Galeria Liminare, Diogo Bolota, one of the participating artists repeated a former performance of him. Three years ago, he was invited to do the...
Text by Sebnem SoherTwo we...
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