Rosas, by Lea Managil
On Lea Managil's exhibition, Roses, currently on show at Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, in Lisbon, until March 16....
On Lea Managil's exhibition, R...
Read MoreOn Lea Managil's exhibition, Roses, currently on show at Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, in Lisbon, until March 16....
On Lea Managil's exhibition, R...
Read MoreDiscussing the Azores is akin to exploring a romanticised idea of nature: the lagoons, the lush green fields, the cows grazing over dazzling landscapes, the ocean, so close, so huge and profound, the geological legacy, the hot springs and luscious muds...
Discussing the Azores is akin ...
Read MoreA phonograph that is also a gas cooker; a bed that holds an upright piano underneath the mattress; a dining table with the crockery always displayed on top, transformed into a decorative wall piece after the meal....
A phonograph that is also a ga...
Read MoreTo be human is to be born aware of one's end. Faced with this certitude, we can nevertheless find solace from death in passion: through love we are eternal. In this spiralling encounter with the other, the deepest corners of our being surface. For to...
To be human is to be born awar...
Read MoreOn show at the Exhibition Hall of the Catholic University of Portugal's School of the Arts (Porto), the exhibition Expurgar Papel: Reconstruindo Narrativas do Colonialismo by artist Carla Filipe (1973) is part of the research project Não foi Cabral: revendo silêncios e omissões, which is...
On show at the Exhibition Hall...
Read MoreThe two exhibitions now showing at Appleton, in Alvalade, until March 7, draw, seemingly without any coordination, upon the same two concepts: faith as part of human nature and the surveillance technology....
The two exhibitions now showin...
Read MoreLike the sky, Teresa Murta's paintings are endless in their possibilities, tapping into something primal and innate, childlike. They are an ambiguous and perverse exercise in denial without ever stopping asserting themselves....
Like the sky, Teresa Murta's p...
Read MoreA Cadência de uma Chama could have been the prologue to Gaston Bachelard's The Flame of a Candle (La flamme d'une chandelle, 1961). Or it could be the name of an unseen sequel to Stanley Kubrick's film Barry Lyndon (1975). Nevertheless, Gonçalo Preto chose this...
A Cadência de uma Chama could...
Read MoreAre fifty years of democracy sufficient to gauge the democratic, social, cultural and economic well-being of a people? In a time when right-wing extremism, veering towards fascist, nostalgic, hostile and violent, is storming Western politics, snatching a stranglehold on parliaments and constitutions that stand in...
Are fifty years of democracy s...
Read MorePercepções e Movimentos, curated by Constança Babo and held at Galeria Presença, is based on Kinetic Art and Optical Art - mid-20th century modernist avant-garde currents -, introducing their notions and aesthetic principles to contemporary times in a dialogue between works by Angelika Huber, Diogo...
Percepções e Movimentos, cur...
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