SIMALA’s old plastics factory premises were Nuno Sousa Vieira’s shelter and studio for decades. The area was immense, with vast working grounds, never ignoring, retouching or erasing the passage of time and the shutdown of factory activities. Space, past and present, compounded by the built...
SIMALA’s old plastics factor...
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The exhibition do arquivo do acervo, curated by João Silvério, brings together 55 works by 24 artists from the Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection at Museu Ibérico de Arqueologia e Arte de Abrantes. It is open until November 19....
The exhibition do arquivo do a...
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On 15 June, the exhibition Deusas Solares Contemporâneas: Extrativismo em Torres Vedras by Inês Ferreira-Norman, curated by Jorge Reis, opened at EMERGE‘s Casa Azul. It is an installation in which, on the gallery floor, an area is bounded within which the goddesses sculpted in copper...
On 15 June, the exhibition Deu...
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As a part of the human, whose ontological essence almost always seems to be tied to a territory (where we are born, occupy, and return to), home becomes an almost unperceived and unquestioned presence in our lives. However, because nothing is so certain that art...
As a part of the human, whose ...
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Before 2011, the Republic of Sudan was the largest country on the African continent, surrounded by many others. Bordered by Libya, Chad, Ethiopia, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Kenya, it also shared with neighbouring Eritrea and Egypt the exit to the...
Before 2011, the Republic of S...
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Fogo Posto (2023) by Diana Policarpo & Odete, at Lehmann + Silva, the second installation by the artist duo, after LYSIS (2021), is the result of a common thought and life experience, leading to a multidisciplinary work, where the combination of multiple artistic practices, such...
Fogo Posto (2023) by Diana Pol...
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Filling the first floor of the old thermoelectric power plant building, and also reaching the outer section, Hello! Are you there? is the largest retrospective of Luisa Cunha (1949, Lisbon), taking place after the EDP Art Grand Prize 2021 was awarded to her. Curated by...
Filling the first floor of the...
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Jorge Barradas (1894 -1971) was a Portuguese painter, ceramist, illustrator, caricaturist and graphic artist.One could open any biographical essay on Jorge Barradas with a similar sentence. But, according to the current narrative, it would make more sense to talk about the artist as an artist:...
Jorge Barradas (1894 -1971) wa...
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There is a new exhibition by Ilda David’ at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, entitled metamorfoses: Os rios transbordam e desabam...
There is a new exhibition by I...
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One segment is twenty seconds, thirteen make up this sculpture. A period of time is materialized in crystal, and it’s about that time. If it were not for João Onofre’s deep interest in the 60s and 70s conceptual art, combined with the “humour” typical of...
One segment is twenty seconds,...
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