Seven Rooms and a Garden is the home of American artist and filmmaker Rashid Johnson. The door to this intimate setting is open and - without any expectations on our part - the host tells us: Make yourself at home. Take your shoes off. Open...
Seven Rooms and a Garden is th...
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This is an atypical article on an exhibition that is happening in crescendo - as it is on display at Brotéria and is echoing in nearby bookshops. It may also be a brief text that is unfair in its visual impact, form, rhythm and semantics,...
This is an atypical article on...
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Some issues become more urgent as we grow up. I say grow up, because, if we handle things properly, we do not age. Rather, we evolve, we become better. We grow up. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it? The body develops differently. And some things are essential...
Some issues become more urgent...
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The deadline for submissions to the UmbigoLAB ArtWorks No Entulho art residency has been extended until 15 September....
The deadline for submissions t...
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Eduarda Rosa exhibition Memórias, Pesadelos e Inquietações is sewn between Aztec calendars and industrial sheds, starry horizons and radioactive frowns. The artist uses collage to build a patchwork of images not entirely dissimilar to another figurehead of modernity: the encyclopaedia....
Eduarda Rosa exhibition Memór...
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What is art if not time felt, made real in space - or the embodiment of time perceived, acknowledged in space? With that said, I'm not speaking of the Hegelian Zeitgeist, much less the Rieglian Kunstwollen, but rather of the concept of a threshold between...
What is art if not time felt, ...
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In Lisbon, with works by Pedro Liñares, Pedro Barassi, Mariana Malheiro and Pedro Zhang, Monitor is for the second time displaying a look at several approaches to the contemporary practice of painting and, in particular, figuration. Now four years later, and following the same drive...
In Lisbon, with works by Pedro...
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(Português) O ciclo a vida, apesar dela, que ocorre no Centro de Artes Visuais em Coimbra, segue a esbanjar um bom fôlego ao propor, entre junho e setembro deste ano, a exposição Popalolo. Esta apresenta ao público conimbricense uma revisitação de pilares da produção de...
(Português) O ciclo a vida, a...
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A few days ago, on a trip to the supermarket, I saw a gentleman who was visibly confused about buying a shampoo whose packaging said it was a 4-in-1 product. The lady who was immediately before him in the queue to pay told him that...
A few days ago, on a trip to t...
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This year, the second Lisbon International Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery, is already happening at venues all over the city of Lisbon. Even for contemporary artists, designers or architects, it is difficult to imagine how distinct contemporary jewellery is, a world of discovery, unexpected technical ingenuity,...
This year, the second Lisbon I...
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