Essentially documentary, the exhibition Main Entrance. Quinta do Monte (1983-88), at Fundação Carmona e Costa until November 9, displays part of Lourdes Castro’s (Funchal, 1930) life and artistic career. The focus is on her return to the island of Madeira in the 1980s, after 25...
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Umbigo Magazine spoke with Ilaria Bonacossa, Director of Artissima 2019, to discuss the fair, its intentions and how this year's theme is reflective of the times in which we live.Now in its 26th edition, the fair posits itself on the dichotomy of desire/censorship to explore...
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Ilhéstico celebrates the 30th anniversary of Porta 33 in Madeira, curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez. It brings together 45 young artists of Madeiran origin, in an exhibition that establishes a dialogue with Funchal. All the artists are related to Porta 33, which is not...
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Those who are familiar with the work of João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira (JPV&NAF) know that it questions the mechanisms of control and codification of the individual, based on their social stratification – codes that protect them, but, on the other hand, contribute...
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Nora Turato (Zagreb, 1991) returns to the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art after having presented last year, to the Portuguese institution and audience, the performance I’m happy to own my implicit biases, in the fourth edition of the programme O Museu como Performance [The Museum...
Nora Turato (Zagreb, 1991) ret...
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Madragoa opened the September season with two individual exhibitions. Kate Newby and Anna Schachinger occupy two exhibition spaces in the gallery: Loved like a sunbeam (Kate Newby, New Zealand, 1979) and Desta maneira não (Anna Schachinger, Austria, 1990) are the first solo exhibitions of the...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York reopens a new wing in Manhattan on October 21, 2019, adding more than 3.700 square meters of exhibition space. This expansion of the Museum, which has taken place over the past four months, with an investment...
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Papendrecht is Guido van der Werve’s solo exhibition at Monitor gallery in Lisbon, inaugurated on September 25.The Dutch artist’s career is unique. He began studying piano at the conservatory and gave up after just under a year. Then he studied classical archaeology, Russian and industrial...
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Biennials are the most important and interesting phenomenon in contemporary art. After the Venice Biennale, many other similar models were revised with new geographies, concepts and ways of working the art, history, politics. Many biennials have become institutions, and as a consequence of their subsequent...
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The studio is a space of uninterrupted constructions and the exercise of art is an extended autopsychography, where the artist builds himself through practice. The result is often a product composed of memories, frustrations, successes and failures, sorrows and joys. It is a silent process,...
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