Let’s start with the beginning and the first form of contact with this exhibition, its title: Ballad of Today. There are many titles, figurative or literal, more participant or determinant than others, concerning the projects in question. In this one, I think it is important...
Let’s start with the beginni...
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Louise Bourgeois (Paris 1911 - New York 2010) became one of the most important artists, especially since the 80s, having created a work that remains up-to-date and surprisingly challenging. After her first solo exhibition in 1947, there were others. Some covered a large part of...
Louise Bourgeois (Paris 1911 -...
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Boys Appetite emerged in 2017 when Miguel Flor began to gather and sub-label the first images in the series, presented later at Mota Galiza (Oporto), in June 2019; at Slou (Lisbon), in December 2019; at Galeria Nuno Centeno (Oporto), in January 2020; and during Walk&Talk...
Boys Appetite emerged in 2017 ...
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It is the second edition of the art fair La Distinción – now with the title La Broma Infinita. This project is based on the work Infinite Jest, published by David Foster Wallace in 1996: “The infinite jest is the irreverent art epic, hypnotizing all those...
It is the second edition of th...
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Between the scale and weight of maritime borders in global political daily life, and the evidence of a sovereign element that sweeps everything in its different flows and currents, Entre Deux Eaux, by Adrien Missika, presents a geological era that calls for political and scientific...
Between the scale and weight o...
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Founded by Bento Jesus Caraca, in collaboration with Manuel Rodrigues de Oliveira, Biblioteca COSMOS is a milestone in the Portuguese publishing landscape, in a period when knowledge was not democratised and illiteracy was dominant in Portugal. From this perspective, publishing a hundred books on general...
Founded by Bento Jesus Caraca,...
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Mal-me-quer is Rita Ferreira's most recent paintings exhibition, at 3+1 Arte Contemporanea, until 30 January 2021. The paintings are immense. Not in quantity, but in size. With an average height of almost 3 metres and a width of approximately 2 metres, these paintings, which are...
Mal-me-quer is Rita Ferreira's...
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The Between Fear and Desire performance closed the 2020 programming of the cultural space Rua das Gaivotas 6. A creation of the collective Who Knows? with the performance of Telma João Santos and Helena Baronet. Who Knows? is an ephemeral collective, created from the need to dis-identify...
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In recent years, the historic centre of Lisbon has witnessed the regenerative discourse of gentrification and, at the same time, the presences-absences that take place there. The spoils of urban rehabilitation subtly show the manufacture of residential segregation on finer scales.[1]I believe that in the...
In recent years, the historic ...
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Gender issues in Art History are a hot topic nowadays, but not because they are politically correct. One needs the historical perspective to understand that (all) written history has been told by men. However, oral history has always been told by women to their offspring...
Gender issues in Art History a...
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