When I visit exhibitions where I notice a minimalist aesthetic, I immediately recall Tony Smith’s peculiar story with his daughter when she was a child. She, upon seeing some of her father’s works - essentially cubes, concrete geometric shapes - asked him what he hid...
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At some point in our lives, we all went through the ritual of choosing objects that belong to houses and spaces that, for some reason, we had to abandon, sell or destroy. During this process, there is always one object more special than others. Our...
At some point in our lives, we...
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This is a demanding essay in two parts, where the expectations of those who think they will find mostly photographic pieces are shattered and then reconstructed. The support criterion becomes insufficient to define an event dedicated to photography and extends beyond it....
This is a demanding essay in t...
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The jamb is one of the furnishing parts of a doorway. In this doorway, the lintel is the ceiling and the sill is the floor. This composition of elements, together with the depth, recall the romantic idea of the doorway as a threshold (the threshold...
The jamb is one of the furnish...
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Adriana Proganó, Andreia Santana, Bruno Zhu, Maria Trabulo, René Tavares and Rita Ferreira are the finalists of the fourteenth edition of the EDP Foundation New Artists Award, which attracted more than 700 applications. The work of the six artists is at MAAT, in a group...
Adriana Proganó, Andreia Sant...
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Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Carroll’s The Mad Gardener’s Song have a common denominator. They share a seeming disconnection, just as the exhibition Mistifório curated by Natxo Checa produces an extraordinary syntax....
Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook H...
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Denilson Baniwa, according to the grading of the Brazilian magazine Artequeacontece, was one of the most outstanding artists in the country in 2022....
Denilson Baniwa, according to ...
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In an opening dialogue of Stalker (1979), a film by Andrei Tarkovsky, one of the three characters who sets off to discover the Zone, a place thought to grant the innermost desires, laments that the world, ruled by reason, has renounced belief in wonder and...
In an opening dialogue of Stal...
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Mafalda Ruao interviews Patricia Rubio, author of Umbigo’s January cover. She finds in plaster the appropriate vector to remember the past, analysing the wound that will reveal paths and phantoms. A history that, though easily forgotten, will be forever preserved in the carcass of the...
Mafalda Ruao interviews Patric...
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Luís Paulo Costa works on painting as an echo of something that already exists. He paints on photographic images out of necessity, an attempt to better understand things or perhaps the world, as he told us a while ago about his solo exhibition Eco |...
Luís Paulo Costa works on pai...
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