Recently, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG) entered a new cycle with the arrival of curator Marta Mestre. Besides the never-ending mission of preservation, dissemination and rehabilitation of the work of an important Portuguese artist, there is now a refreshing (and urgent) vision...
Recently, Centro Internacional...
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In December 1995, Sintra was selected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Cultural Landscape category. The exhibition No Reino das Nuvens: Os Artistas e a Invenção de Sintra, organised to commemorate the twenty-five years of a political and cultural event, was due to...
In December 1995, Sintra was s...
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OSSO – Associação Cultural, founded in 2012, constituted by artists and researchers from different fields, supports creation, research, programming and experimental projects, through artistic practices that stimulate critical, aesthetic and political thinking, in the face of their specific contexts and territories.The collective was born as...
OSSO – Associação Cultural...
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In 1944, the Italian sculptor Arturo Martini wrote in Sculpture, dead language: “Sculpture will never be spontaneous among men. Nothing justifies its survival in today’s world. In the future, it will only fulfil commemorative and solemn purposes”.At a time when sculptures of more or less...
In 1944, the Italian sculptor ...
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Nella Cohorte di De Chirico is a collective exhibition that presents several of the most well-known names hailing from Colégio das Artes de Coimbra.Giorgio de De Chirico, the Italian surrealist painter after whom the exhibition is named, is commonly described as the artist of metaphysical...
Nella Cohorte di De Chirico is...
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IndieLisboa ended on September 6. The 18th edition featured 12 sections: International Competition, National Competition, Silvestre, Brand New, IndieJunior, IndieMusic, Director’s Cut, Mouth of Madness, Special Sessions, 5L Program, Retrospective of Sarah Maldoror and LisbonTalks.Part of the International Competition, Julien Faraut presented Les Sorcières de...
IndieLisboa ended on September...
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The irresistible allure of violence instigationGraceful and elegant objects, designed with a refined ergonomic sense, gently fierce. They are works of fine workmanship, created with rigorous care for the most subtle details, manipulating, shaping and joining shapes in glass, lacquered, chromed or brushed metals, and...
The irresistible allure of vio...
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Let’s consider the exhibition venue, wide, raw, bare. We are welcomed by a “humanoid presence”, Ariane, who tells us The Fauna of Mirrors, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. This welcoming gesture marks the entrance to the exhibition and the dimension of Whispering Mirrors.There...
Let’s consider the exhibitio...
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maat (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), in Belém, is one of the national museums that has most invested in international artists outside the circuits usually seen in Portugal, in an equally fruitful and consistent engagement with current environmental or sociological issues. The work of...
maat (Museum of Art, Architect...
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Our most frequent approach to the sky continues to be the contrapuntal perspective. As a rule, we see it as a guide to an atmospheric state or the purest contemplation. Sometimes in search of transcendental thoughts or the sheer and simple pleasure of looking at...
Our most frequent approach to ...
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