Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man became a landmark for the ideal of beauty and harmonious proportions in the human figure, following the concept of Marco Vitruvio Poliano. Formally speaking, this drawing depicts a male body with two arms and two legs....
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Sketch for a museum is a series of interviews that aims to amplify the growing reference to colonial and post-colonial issues on the art scene in Portugal over the last few years. In this third interview, Guilherme Vilhena Martins talks to Melissa Rodrigues....
Sketch for a museum is a serie...
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The Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial (BF24), inaugurated on November 30, 2024, has established itself once more as a pivotal event in the Portuguese contemporary photography landscape. Since its inception in 1989, the Biennial has been a convergence ground for artists and the audience,...
The Vila Franca de Xira Photog...
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No. 6 on Rua Conde Redondo is once again wide open to the city - every Friday. And the new Rialto6 season has included exhibitions by Diana Policarpo and Jumana Manna....
No. 6 on Rua Conde Redondo is ...
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A hand-shaped black knocker, such as those used to swing on the doors of old houses, is fixed to one of the Brotéria gallery walls in Noé Sendas' exhibition Goin' Home....
A hand-shaped black knocker, s...
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Seeking to promote and disseminate contemporary artistic practices at the Bissaya Barreto House-Museum in Coimbra, the Bissaya Barreto Foundation has been developing an exhibition programme at the Viriato Namora Gallery since the beginning of 2024, which is now showing Tempo Dobrado, by José Maçãs de...
Seeking to promote and dissemi...
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The artist-alchemist is the one aspiring to live, not to see. They choose matter over representation. Their wonder is found in the seemingly banal nature of ecological and biological phenomena, and not in the intellectual discussions that they can trigger....
The artist-alchemist is the on...
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Between lightness and density, line and colour, brightness and darkness. Landscape overviews, close-ups exposing the stitching and nerve of both pigment and line, in a ralenti travelling, according to the gradation of tones, colours, lights and shadows, an idea that comes extremely close to time...
Between lightness and density,...
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Grasping the totality or attempting to translate and dematerialise everything behind the work of José Loureiro, as well as trying to account for his choices or lack thereof - to go down this road and not go up that one - proves to be a...
Grasping the totality or attem...
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The sun gives without receiving: men were aware of this long before astrophysics measured this unceasing prodigality; they observed it ripen harvests and linked the splendor that is his to the gesture of he who gives without receiving....
The sun gives without receivin...
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