“For me a journey is to return”, Hun Chung Lee often writes and emphasizes. I recall this as I return to the Azores to meet him yet again. We got to know each other in Lisbon when Lee was in residence and a close relationship...
“For me a journey is to retu...
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At the confluence of science, technology, art and poetry, the “Satellites” exhibition by the Brazilian photographer Márcio Vilela - curated by Adelaide Ginga - at the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, in Lisbon, appears as a sort of window on the starry sky...
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“We speak of houses like someone who speaks of soul itself”. This passage from the poem Prefácio, written by Herberto Helder in 1961 for the book A Colher na Boca, illustrates Ângela Ferreira’s work for the exhibition Dalaba: Sol d’Exil, through which she summons the house...
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A few years ago, an artist was only allowed to set an anthological exposition when they reached a reverential age. Fortunately, in this day and age, an anthology no longer means an elderly artist, but rather one that has a wide-ranging and significant body of...
A few years ago, an artist was...
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In the district of Santarém, the 2019 Coruche Biennial - Percursos com Arte returns, taking place from 28 September to 13 October, and wants “to provide some renovation and dynamism to the area”.Commissioned by the Municipal Museum of Coruche, the event, one that is been...
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Leonor Antunes is the selected artist to present Portugal at the Venice Biennale, a name whose work is of the upmost importance and quality to understand, both in the conceptual, technical and aesthetic point of view.a seam, a surface, a hinge, or a knot, a...
Leonor Antunes is the selected...
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After launching the international Absolut Creative Competition, on November last year, it was received more than 7500 applications at international level – 400 just in Portugal – in a total sum of 350 artists.The Portuguese works were evaluated by the jurors Joana Astolfi, Alexandre Melo...
After launching the internatio...
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“Painting begins where one can no longer speak of it, where words fail and drift away.” Júlio PomarPainters delving into painting, an open dialogue, that’s the proposal of the whole set of exhibitions of pairs of painters who are part of Sindicato dos Pintores, organized...
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Filipa Oliveira is the curator of the second edition of the Navigator Art on Paper Prize, which distinguishes the best international paper-made productions.Contemporary art has prompted the experimentation and hybridization of techniques and means, and the immediate association that paper is merely the support of...
Filipa Oliveira is the curator...
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"Museums are places where you welcome the world" Philippe Vergne On Monday, 29 April, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presented its new director, Philippe Vergne (1966, Troyes).With a career deeply associated with contemporary art, the man whose presence and character are unquestionably noteworthy began as a...
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