Émile Zola wrote, one day, that all great artists, in one way or another, give us a new and personal version of nature. The artist sees, she told us, "through their own eyes, and in each one of their canvases, they are able to provide...
Émile Zola wrote, one day, th...
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The smell is the most memory-triggering sense. The odour is the catalyst for a heap of electrical synapses that retrieve, somewhere between the amygdala and hippocampus, a past, an emotion, a mundane mental picture. Smell is an inner, personnel travel, a clash between the past and the...
The smell is the most memory-t...
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We are not ourselves is not a finished exhibition. Everything has yet to be concluded, glued, cleaned, fixed. Plastics have to be removed, there is tape ready to be cleared, ink to be painted, canvases to be positioned. The utensils of the whole assemblage are impudently exhibited as...
We are not ourselves is not...
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Let us forget the centralism of Lisbon or Porto. Let us forget the recurrent idea that Portugal is a mere coast line. Let us remember of other centres, other programs, other communities. Let us remember of other institutions, art museums, art events that are displayed...
Let us forget the centralism o...
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JustLX 2018 has ended and it is time now for an audit, even if prematurely. Either way, and according to the organization, the art fair had a positive outcome, with the galleries declaring a “pleasant” number of sales.At the extreme side of ARCOlisboa, this was...
JustLX 2018 has ended and it i...
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Re Cordum. Voltar ao Coração 5 (2014) is an artwork by the Portuguese artist Vasco Araújo, exhibited at ARCOlisboa 2018, in the Galeria Horrach Moya’s booth.Five African busts represent the collective voice of a forgotten continent, delivered to its insignificance by the West. At the...
Re Cordum. Voltar ao Coração...
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Largo Residências docked in Largo do Intendente in 2011. That year, on July 1, even with its doors turned into a construction site, they occupied the former Pensão Pereira. They did not have a solid plan, rather an idea felt in the body of what could...
Largo Residências docked in L...
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Hanns Schimansky is a German artist whose practice is rooted on drawing. The exhibition The Sound of Drawing, at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jeager, is the absolute synthesis of a language and expression that the author has been developing throughout decades which make the drawing –...
Hanns Schimansky is a German a...
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Filipe Cortez is an artist whose plastic abilities are unusual and unique. The reinterpretation of the canvases and the plethora of material that he uses implies a boundless, enlarged and plural understating of the artistic creation. He explores the fields of painting, drawing, sculpture and, especially, installation, through experimental forms before...
Filipe Cortez is an artist wh...
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After last year success, and the previous one, ARCOlisboa reviews its strategy and broadens the number of participating galleries, either in the usual program, either in the parallel cycles such as Opening, this year curated by João Laia again.Umbigo highlights the shows in Torreão Poente,...
After last year success, and t...
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