This is Álvaro Lapa and here we evoke him, asking: “Does reading solve”? The title, taken from one of his works, does not come up with a decision. In it, images, their senses and meanings move in water and air. Stylish, weak, ductile are also...
This is Álvaro Lapa and here ...
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Every week, UMBIGO invites two people to share their 5 cultural suggestions. What can we do at home? From a book to a podcast, album or film: here are recommendations from artists, curators, gallery owners, cultural activists, friends.We will share the recipe for what makes...
Every week, UMBIGO invites two...
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Every week, UMBIGO invites two people to share their 5 cultural suggestions. What can we do at home? From a book to a podcast, album or film: here are recommendations from artists, curators, gallery owners, cultural activists, friends.We will share the recipe for what makes...
Every week, UMBIGO invites two...
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There are many possible triggers when one steps into an art show and when experiencing a contemporary art exhibition; all the senses are allowed and should eventually be challenged. This is exactly what the artist Uri Aran does in his current show at GBE (Gavin...
There are many possible trigge...
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UMBIGO invited several artists to reflect on the era we are living in and to think about their artistic production in quarantine times.Today we start this new section, being the first project by the artist Pedro Valdez Cardoso.—Pedro Valdez Cardoso, ISOLATION, March 2020"Surrendered to self...
UMBIGO invited several artists...
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This text is the consequence of two first encounters: one with the work of the artist Túlia Saldanha. Until her retrospective in 2014 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, she was practically unknown in the Portuguese artistic and cultural milieu; and the second encounter in a...
This text is the consequence o...
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UMBIGO is in solidarity with people who are quarantined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, we provide, on the link below, Umbigo Magazine # 71 (free pdf download of the printed edition) to encourage reading at home. #stayhomestaysafe [elfsight_file_embed id="3"] ...
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“The hours that hold the figure run their course within the house of the dream.” Walter Benjamin (in One-Way Street) In 2019, Leonor Hipólito held two exhibitions at different Sá da Costa venues. In the gallery of the bookstore, where she showed the project Que permanecendo sem ser,...
“The hours that hold the fig...
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JUST BEFORE WE BEGIN as a show and title points to the pre-discursive, sensation-based domain which precedes the consolidation of concept. Concept is constructed through justification. Just before we begin there may be a void, where the materials are provided from which a discourse can...
JUST BEFORE WE BEGIN as a show...
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Maria Mergulhão is Portuguese artist and poet graduated in fine arts in London, currently living in Lisbon. At the Museu Municipal de Faro, she presents her exhibition Messages in a Bottle.The exhibition encompasses many messages, which come from pop music, a genre heard by the...
Maria Mergulhão is Portuguese...
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