The eye is the organ that dictates, that commands and synthesizes. The eye monopolizes and the information captured by it precedes all the other senses. In a visual age, where the image carries an ontology that is intertwined with that of modern civilization, the eye,...
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Related to Umbigo online’s November cover, we present 500 - Ensaio Fotográfico by Hugo Ganhão, who was at Centro Multimeios de Espinho between July and September 2021. The photographs show us the city of Espinho, where Ganhão grew up. But his scrutinizing eye reveals to...
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A Third Reason and Clavier à Lumières are the recent shows at Rialto6. These two solo exhibitions by Alexandre Estrela and Igor Jesus bring together a group of audiovisual installations that transform the exhibition room into a sensory experience, stimulating the limits of the spectator's...
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With the closure of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Modern Art Centre (CAM), due to the building’s ongoing renovation and extension works, an offsite programme has now been presented. CAM in Motion is based on the idea of a work of art in movement throughout the...
With the closure of the Calous...
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Teatro Aveirense is essential in the national artistic context. As proved by its programme, the theatre intends to address the top current themes, such as gender issues, democratization processes and public space. Teatro Aveirense hosts several artistic projects, residencies, and shows that go beyond theatre,...
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The works in blackA moment of pause. Or perhaps the beginning of a journey: solitary, silent and spiritual, towards distant times. An experience of abandonment and bewilderment. An invitation to pilgrimage. The emergence of discomfort and doubt. The renunciation of entertainment. An unhealed scar. The...
The works in blackA moment...
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The exhibition It’s not a landscape, It’s a battlefield, on view at Galeria 111, brings together a handful of drawings made by artist Alexandre Conefrey, in dry pastel on paper. The drawings extend throughout the gallery space, in a linear fashion, and emerge in a vibrant...
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Oscar Giaconia shows his work for the first time in Lisbon with the set CRYPTOZOOGODEMICHET at MONITOR Lisbon. There are seven bodies that emerge in a language of various layers and transparencies. These emphasize the artist’s knowledge and practice: to build a symbiosis between the...
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Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art gallery brings Lawrence Weiner to Lisbon in Around the World, an exhibition that shares its name with a work made in 2020 by the artist, whose intention is to think about location based on an imaginary line of reference, from which...
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Uma vida inteira by Nuno Sousa Vieira is an extensive exercise in spatial construction and deconstruction, where the body is a pivotal element of this uninterrupted game composed of forms and perceptions. This game makes us aware of the many lives experienced by an artist’s...
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