Estarreja will host the exhibition Coletiva de Fotografia de Autores Portugueses [Photography Collective from Portuguese Authors] at the Art Gallery of the House of Culture. This is a show conceived for the 21st AVANCA Festival and tries to display what has been done and explored...
Estarreja will host the exhibi...
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We are living the hypermodernity. Or, alternatively, we are living the post-contemporary era. The fluidity of time and space takes us through an automatic vortex, one that the bodies try to follow in an uncritical way, all to no avail.Gilles Lipovetsky coined the expression The...
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Between secrets, pig head-shaped cakes and some other delicacies, the 11th edition of MOTELX was presented. Three red devils from Vinhais were the guests of honour, who will surely be a recurring presence at Cinema São Jorge, from September 5th to September 10th. After having...
Between secrets, pig head-shap...
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Portugal occasionally holds that sort of exhibitions which fall into the realm of interculturalism and migrate from one side of the world to be displayed right here. Fundação Oriente has gone the extra mile to bring a fair share of eastern culture so that the...
Portugal occasionally holds th...
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The Biennial of Contemporary Art of Maia (now just Biennial of Maia) is reaching adulthood and brings with it a proposal focused on “Art in Connection”. The city turns itself into a connection platform between several realities, several contexts.The guidelines which steered the curatorial choices...
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Photos: António Jorge Silva.The exhibition of Fernanda Fragateiro is both an exercise of art and architecture, an ambiguity which can be admired with the same degree of admiration in names like Gordon Matta-Clark or Donald Judd.Space has always been the artist’s main concern and medium:...
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Rich and poor are only aware of each other's lives by the distorted prism of novels and social media. A miner will never sleep in a hotel, handwork for a playboy boils down to holding a racket, and the greatest task of the wealthy housewives...
Rich and poor are only aware o...
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Photos: Vera Marmelo.Two platters and vinyl, tonnes of it. On one side, Evan Parker, and David Toop stands on the other. A dim auditorium generates a strong contrast with the heat wave felt throughout the weekend and an audience full of gleaners. The first session...
Photos: Vera Marmelo.Two p...
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Photos: Francisco Ferreira.The exhibition Tudo o que é profundo ama a máscara [Whatever is profound loves the mask] aims to question the viewer about the ontic trait of the mask. And studying this ontology of the mask is to, necessarily, understand its bewildering essence, of...
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Photos: Lais Pereira.The exhibition Lua Cão [Moondog] by the artists Alexandre Estrela e João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva ends next 15 July and represents a rather interesting model of exhibiting not only because of its location – an old, dusty warehouse – but also because...
Photos: Lais Pereira.The e...
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