In AlUla, it all started in 2019, when Maraya opened its doors: it is the most fascinating reflective building in the world, as the mirror-covered facades have turned this UFO/mirage, in the middle of the Arabian desert, into an icon....
In AlUla, it all started in 20...
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Brazilian Wax is the result of the artistic residency EMERGE Carnaval de Torres Vedras 100 anos, conceived and produced by EMERGE, which invited Gustavo von Ha (a Brazilian artist not living in Portugal) to create visual and performative works, regarding the city’s carnival background; and...
Brazilian Wax is the result of...
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About waters of night, Pádraig Timoney’s first solo exhibition in Portugal, the press release says that the Irish artist “presents in Lisbon a new perspective of his research on the construction of the image”. Upon encountering the mirrors materialised by him and paintings situated between...
About waters of night, Pádrai...
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For the reader who most likely does not know the author who is writing to you, one fact about my life will be important in this article: a little over five years ago, I lost my mother. Yes, thank you, all is well now. Days...
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Understanding the cultural life in Montemor-o-Novo is not easy. The city has a busy agenda, which makes cultural associations fight among themselves for a prominent place and Oficinas do Convento (OC) is one of those cases. Working on culture, fine arts and heritage, the programming...
Understanding the cultural lif...
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Sopro and Alka-Seltzer are the two most recent exhibitions at Rialto6. Sopro is a solo show by André Cepeda (Coimbra, 1976), an artist who has used photography to explore the urban nature of cities, and through it invoke intimate and sensitive spatial relationships. In Alka-Seltzer,...
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The essay finds the best conditions to survive in the in-between zone between lógos and poíesis, rigour and originality, calculation and deviation, research and invention. It is within this transitional gap that the essay-form’s interdisciplinarity becomes unruly, a joyful rebellion of concepts, forms, systems and...
The essay finds the best condi...
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“Owing to the meagre uniformity of the plinth.in the Florentine piazza where he had reigned for centuries,cracks began to appearin David's legs and ankles”[1] I found the idea of monument curious. On the one hand, when you mention Musil in the piece you wrote for the...
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Two poles sustaining the discourse, two exhibition venues and a man connecting them. CAPC Sereia and CAPC Sede combine Gustavo Sumpta’s intimate and intention, a journey hallmarked by notions of tension, fragility, and memory, but whose analysis is a mechanism forever inept at linking the...
Two poles sustaining the disco...
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In 2011, the publisher Dafne issued a volume of studies by Vítor Silva on the 19th-century painter Henrique Pousão. The book - a gorgeous item -, besides the essays, includes inside the back cover a fold-out “Atlas of images”. When we open it, it shows...
In 2011, the publisher Dafne i...
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