"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...
"The child, when a child, aske...
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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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Zéro de conduite is the first exhibition commissioned by João Ribas as director of Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, where he has held exhibitions since 2014. This one displays his in-depth knowledge, not only of contemporary art and its several shapes, at national and international...
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Teatro do Mar [Theatre of the Sea] – a name that mirrors its own condition.And its origin as well.It was born in Sines.By the sea that forces us to embrace the horizon. The immensity. The distance.It grew in Sines.In a land as violent as the waves,welcoming and capturing...
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Go to Culturgest and get marvelled by this anthological exhibition of the Swiss artist Michael Biberstein, on display until September, curated by Delfim Sardo. This exhibition’s objective is to present the works of long-gone decades, but also to reveal some unpublished pieces, barely seen up...
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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 (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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Death in Venice, a Thomas Mann’s novel, was adapted to film by director Luchino Visconti in 1971. One of the most intoxicating works ever, much due to the filmmaker’s vision and mastery, who seems to have been touched by something ethereal, reaching the unattainable.Luchino Visconti had a...
Death in Venice, a Thomas Mann...
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The work of Margarida Sardinha is constantly evolving. The medium can range from digital projection to animation, light-box and installation. Margarida's latest works involve holographic techniques. As an artist, the driving force behind all these devices is an uncompromising quest for understanding and making sense...
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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...
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