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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreOSSO – 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...
Read MoreIn 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 ...
Read MoreNella 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...
Read MoreIndieLisboa 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreLet’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...
Read Moremaat (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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