The Berru Collective is a Porto based collective comprised of artists Bernardo Bordalo, Mariana Vilanova, Rui Nó and Sérgio Coutinho whose work centres around anthropological, philosophical, social and ethical concerns, looking primarily at the ever-present relationship between humanity and technology. The collective has begun to...
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By the end of 2018, the first news appeared: a few hundred Hondurans had left their country for the United States of America. They walked slowly, as they could, with the few belongings on their backs and the children on their lap. In the usual...
By the end of 2018, the first ...
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Faire son temps (life in the making) by Christian Boltanski, at the Centre Pompidou, proposes an immersion in a concrete universe, which, over 50 years, seems not to have suffered major conceptual and plastic deviations. In other words, despite the constant medium changes, like other...
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José de Guimarães is one of the most accomplished Portuguese artists with a fruitful and envied career. At 80, with 60 years of work, Guimarães is a worldly artist, packed with stories and histories, always changing and turbulent, surely, but no less rich for the...
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Ana Pérez-Quiroga is one of the most relevant contemporary Portuguese artists. An activist by vocation, her art is political and focused on gender issues. Her work also delves into everyday problems and the mapping of objects and routines. ¿De que casa eres? Los Niños de...
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Exuvie, which derives from the Latin, means “shirt” or “empty skin”. This is the name given to the skin or shell dropped by insects, crustaceans, arachnids and reptiles during the moulting period. The need to release the exuvie follows the growth of each being, unlike...
Exuvie, which derives from the...
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A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand is the intriguing title of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s new solo show, currently on view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, in Milan. The exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of the artist’s practice, spanning from the 1990s to the present and including works...
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When we descend to the floor -1 of Museu Coleção Berardo, we immediately hear the machinal noises of (Still) Modern Discomfort, an exhibition curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez. Before that, we see Accident Motion Pictures (2003), an ambulance, and Think Anti-Tank (2014), a military...
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Alto Nível Baixo announces the absence of a measure (perhaps even a metric impossibility). But, more importantly, the idea of paradox that echoes in Galeria ZDB. It is possible to affirm that these two exhibitions were merged into one - Invention Cinema, Brazil (1968-78) and War Drawings by...
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Parasita is suspended in the vault of an old hermitage. It is an oil painting on paper, designed by Rita Ferreira for Projeto Travessa da Ermida. João Silvério is in the role of curator, although he claims that the work did not necessarily depend on...
Parasita is suspended in the v...
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