It had been mentioned in this platform that drawing is usually considered the underdog of the arts. Considered as a means to an end – often painting or sculpture; in other cases, a document for the construction of buildings –, drawing seldom achieves the status...
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Pedro Morais is one of the most relevant Portuguese contemporary artists with a last during career. The artist is now opening his new exhibition at Pavilhão Branco of Galerias Municipais, with both original and old works, now adapted into this space.Nudez – uma Invariante [Nudity...
Pedro Morais is one of the mos...
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Pedro Sousa Loureiro, aka Pato Bravo, opens on February 1st the exhibition Rebuild, at Galeria FOCO, in Lisbon.The artist shows a collection of drawings, collages and portraits whose access to the identities of the portrayed figures needs to be rebuilt through an introspective and relational...
Pedro Sousa Loureiro, aka Pato...
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José Pedro Cortes is opening a new exhibition on 27 January, at Galeria Francisco Fino. Planta Espelho [Mirror Plant] shows 25 photos that reveal the modernity and the uncertainties and contradictions of a volatile, always changing time, and of an infinite progress.The big themes of...
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In this second part of the narrative about the activities of ateliermob, we talk about the work developed in the neighborhood Terras da Costa, and the issues that people face in Lisbon on a daily basis – from gentrification to gender-based violence. (First part here.) Terras da...
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The ateliermob was born in 2005 with the intent of enabling their founders to autonomously embrace the projects in which their work and knowledge could be more useful. Thirteen years after that, we realize that such intent, more than a desire, was a necessity, because it has...
The ateliermob was born in 2...
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The French gallery Jeanne Bucher Jeager is opening on 19 January, in Lisbon.Created in 1925, the Galerie Jeanne Bucher is considered a well-known place in the exhibition of modern art in Paris and is now extending its business into Lisbon with shows from that artistic...
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*Transcription from the gate to the Garden of Epicurus according to Seneca. Translated as “Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure”, by Richard Mott Gummere. The garden always had an important yet discreet place in the culture of civilizations...
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The New Art Fest is an extremely recent art fest that has already managed to fuel contemporary art in Portugal and establish itself a legitimate project, capable of serving an audience that is interested to witness how art and technology are intertwined.The 2017 edition has...
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Geography is the conceptual core of the Lebanese Charbel-joseph H. Boutros’ work. But talking about his work in this sentence may be a simplistic task if we’re not to say that this geography entails political, historical, social, cultural, economic and even psychological connotations which are...
Geography is the conceptual co...
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