*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...
The New Art Fest is an extreme...
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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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Geography has been an implicit and an ever-present representation in art and, if we want, in the art history. As an objective science, or one that aims to be that, geography measures the physical aspects – spatial and temporal – of places. But these places...
Geography has been an implicit...
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Umbigo online invites you to show your architecture project to the whole world. From a personal standpoint, without the lenses of a curator or a critic, how would you like to make your work known?The Architecture section of our magazine wants to give voice to...
Umbigo online invites you to s...
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The French-Argentinian artist was the winner of the 12th edition of Prémios Novos Artistas Fundação EDP (New Artists Award of Fundação EDP), for the first time awarded to a non-Portuguese youngster, with the installation Composição Eterna.Claire arrived in Portugal in 2009, when she was just...
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“(…) Canada as a state of mind, as the space you inhabit not just with your body but with your head. It's that kind of space in which we find ourselves lost.” Margaret Atwood, Survival (1972) In the kernel of edification of a country’s national identity are found both...
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The first time I sat down to talk with Vera Marmelo was more than three years ago. I thought it had been longer than that, because, in the meantime, Vera seems to have photographed a whole life already; she thinks that a lot can fit...
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Created by João Silvério, EMPTY CUBE is a curatorial project which is now about to reach its ten-year anniversary. Over this period, a vast array of things have changed in the world of art which, more or less, is in tune with the fluctuations and...
Created by João Silvério, EM...
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Sin digerir is a collection that juxtaposes both jobs of Elena Moreno, restorer and jeweller. Both are guided by criteria and standards. In this case, walls are shattered, creating jewellery that is an outcome of material experimentation, and this is the axis of such professional...
Sin digerir is a collection th...
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