“if doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern”William Blake Tito Mouraz (Portugal, 1977) has always accustomed us to a thoughtful, meticulous compositional...
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Anda, Diana is the new creation of choreographer and dancer Diana Niepce. In this piece, Diana assumes her body as a revolutionary place, showing that any body can take that spot. The body that becomes Diana is born from the relationship with the other two...
Anda, Diana is the new creatio...
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It’s been a few months since my Thursday afternoon was filled with a visit to a new exhibition. This time I wrote in my agenda, on April 8, “Appleton Opening with several !!!”, as I knew where everyone would go to escape from home. The...
It’s been a few months since...
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Inaugurated on July 4, 2020, the Coimbra Contemporary Art Centre (CACC) underlines the importance of this city in Portugal’s contemporary art, being part, according to José Maçãs de Carvalho, of the city’s cultural polygon. Corpo e Matéria is the first exhibition of a cycle of...
Inaugurated on July 4, 2020, t...
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The California Museum of Photography presents Art in the Plague Year, an online exhibition featuring 55 artists of different nationalities. The exhibition, based on an open call to artists from all over the world, attempts to analyse the reality of the pandemic through the attentive...
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Frans van Lent presents L'espace de vingt-quatre heures as the fourth cover of the month in 2021, a video of a path recorded by the artist at different times of the day. The systematic concept of the video as almost a solar clock, in contrast...
Frans van Lent presents L'espa...
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Alice Bonnot is an independent curator interested in the development of environmentally sustainable curatorial and artistic practices with a drive towards eco solutions. She is currently developing a sustainable art residency programme in the countryside of Lisbon. In this interview, Bonnot talks about the importance...
Alice Bonnot is an independent...
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Once a week, UMBIGO invites one person to share their 5 cultural suggestions. What can we do at home? From a book to a podcast, album or film: here are recommendations from artists, curators, gallery owners, cultural activists, friends.We will share the recipe for what...
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I may be being bold, but I think that, on the islands, any description of a space ends up focusing on the territory, which is not easy to abstract as it is so ever-present: nature is more vigorous, the ground seems more perceptible, possibly more...
I may be being bold, but I thi...
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The discoveries of quantum physics have stirred an aesthetic fascination in Guillaume Cousin. To the point of calling for a quantum cultural revolution! He defines himself as an “experimenter-constructor” and creates a work with a minimalist device. Marked by a communicative belief; art is made...
The discoveries of quantum phy...
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