“Look at me. I need you to look at me.” Jesus, the Son, with script and staging by Elmano Sancho, premiered on September 15 at Teatro da Trindade/Fundação Inatel, opens with the foundational affirmation of human existence: To be seen to exist. Or the negation...
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Cine y moda. Por Jean Paul Gaultier is at CaixaForum Barcelona from July 11 until October 23. Co-organised by la Caixa Foundation and La Cinémathèque française, Cine y Moda proposes a polyhedral journey through elements that have marked the history of fashion and the seventh...
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Going up Avenida da Liberdade, turning left to Rua Barata Salgueiro, the second from the Marquês de Pombal roundabout. Going straight ahead, crossing Rua Mouzinho da Silveira and Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes emerges on the right. As we enter, the exhibition is on the...
Going up Avenida da Liberdade,...
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In 1978, the history of the Cerveira International Art Biennial began because of Encontros Internacionais de Arte em Portugal organised by Grupo Alvarez, Egídio Álvaro, and the magazine Artes Plásticas. After the First Meeting, in 1974, at Casa da Carruagem, Valadares, the event took place...
In 1978, the history of the Ce...
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Although it opened on 15 September, on the eve of summer’s end, Unconscious Fruit by Francisco Osório has the taste of May nectarines; juicy and potentially intoxicating if consumed in high doses....
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A badminton shuttlecock hits the head of the gentleman in front of me with a resounding thud. The girls don't notice. The shuttlecock falls into the sand, they pick it up and continue playing. There seems to be an opaque dome separating the two worlds,...
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A hand tapping according to a specific tempo, a call in Morse code, attempting to communicate secretly. Violaine Lochu’s work is defined by action: the video, which bears the exhibition’s title, shows us the artist in a sequence of gestures - with a torch, she...
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Mafalda Ruão interviews Joana Siquenique, author of Umbigo’s September cover, who presents a work full of colour, transparencies and movements. A kinesis of optical illusions with desires, intimacies and past memories. With the exhibition LOTE 17 about to open, the artist will disclose the harmonious...
Mafalda Ruão interviews Joana...
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At the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the possibility arose to put Jorge Queiroz and Arshile Gorky‘s oeuvres into dialogue. In a special setting, the exhibition presents drawings and paintings by both, which encompass expressionism, surrealism, abstraction and symbolism. But what fuelled the association between two artists...
At the Calouste Gulbenkian Fou...
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Sometimes, when we meet the players responsible for contemporary art galleries on the Iberian Peninsula, we limit ourselves to urban centres, such as Lisbon, Porto, Madrid or Barcelona. This can replicate old vices, sing the same old songs and privilege faces (and canvases) that have...
Sometimes, when we meet the pl...
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