After launching the international Absolut Creative Competition, on November last year, it was received more than 7500 applications at international level – 400 just in Portugal – in a total sum of 350 artists.The Portuguese works were evaluated by the jurors Joana Astolfi, Alexandre Melo...
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“Painting begins where one can no longer speak of it, where words fail and drift away.” Júlio PomarPainters delving into painting, an open dialogue, that’s the proposal of the whole set of exhibitions of pairs of painters who are part of Sindicato dos Pintores, organized...
“Painting begins where one c...
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Filipa Oliveira is the curator of the second edition of the Navigator Art on Paper Prize, which distinguishes the best international paper-made productions.Contemporary art has prompted the experimentation and hybridization of techniques and means, and the immediate association that paper is merely the support of...
Filipa Oliveira is the curator...
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"Museums are places where you welcome the world" Philippe Vergne On Monday, 29 April, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presented its new director, Philippe Vergne (1966, Troyes).With a career deeply associated with contemporary art, the man whose presence and character are unquestionably noteworthy began as a...
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The concept of drawing, in the collective imaginary, refers to an idea of a graphic and two-dimensional representation on a given surface. In Ser Sombra (Desenho), António Bolota displays drawings with three-dimensional elements activated by the projection of a light beam. A dialogue between work...
The concept of drawing, in the...
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Drawing is the beginning. Before we learn how to write, we draw, even if rudimentarily. It is the recurring stepping stone of every artistic journey, it is the auxiliary method of artistic creation, it often is the support of the work of art behind the...
Drawing is the beginning. Befo...
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The title of Nuno Nunes-Ferreira’s exhibition at the Balcony Contemporary Art Gallery (on display until May 20) is entitled dois anos e meio [two years and a half] and it represents the period that the artist devoted both to research efforts and to their materialization,...
The title of Nuno Nunes-Ferrei...
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Gabriel Abrantes is not only a filmmaker but also a plastic artist. Like the character in his last movie, Diamantino, he is not limited by any labels. Interviewing him is an exercise that allows us to perceive his ambition for everything that is in the...
Gabriel Abrantes is not only a...
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A mysterious, nocturnal, and oneiric environment is created in the exhibition Fauna by the artist André Romão with the complicity of Pedro Lapa, curator of the exhibition, at the Museu Coleção Berardo. Conceived as an immersive scenario in four acts, it presents several types of...
A mysterious, nocturnal, and o...
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No other profession is as exposed to space and time as architecture. The multiple disciplines involved prove just that, encompassing many other technicians and knowledges, who are perennially required to excavate and edify from the stones. Because, as inert as it may seem, a stone...
No other profession is as expo...
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