(Português) Na Antiguidade Clássica, existiam dois loci classici acerca da relação interartística da poesia e da pintura. “A pintura é poesia muda e a poesia é um quadro falante”, apotegma de Simónides de Ceos (6 a.C.), evocado por Plutarco, e o famoso ditado de Horácio,...
(Português) Na Antiguidade Cl...
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Botany and visual anthropology paved the way for AnneMarie Maes' practice to encounter the most varied forms of life. Her multidisciplinary work, driven by a scientific and alchemical curiosity, is always the result of continuous observation and close contact with different territories, their particularities and...
Botany and visual anthropology...
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From 2 April to 9 May, applications are open for the FLAD Drawing Prize, an initiative of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) that aims to distinguish and support promising artists in the field of drawing....
From 2 April to 9 May, applica...
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Imagine that turning left does not necessarily mean heading right and that suddenly coming from below does not imply going upwards. A mathematical concept reflecting the ultimate paradox, where time and space dimensions do not construct reality - let alone guide it....
Imagine that turning left does...
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Applications are open from 13 March to 30 April 2024 for the 15th edition of the EDP Foundation New Artists Award, a biennial event created in 2000 to promote and distinguish new talents in the plastic and visual arts in and from Portugal. The prize...
Applications are open from 13 ...
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Appleton is staging two apparently distinct exhibitions until April 6, but they seem to come from the same place: the past[1]. They share an inclination to revisit it through memory - historical and/or affective - translated into different narratives. There is an awareness raised through...
Appleton is staging two appare...
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Teasing, evoking and restricting: this is how Dozie Kanu bridges the chasm in what is his first major exhibition in Portugal. Born and raised in Texas to Nigerian immigrant parents, Kanu, already a household name on the international art stage, lives and works nowadays in...
Teasing, evoking and restricti...
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Sketch for a museum is a round of interviews to expand on the growing reference to colonial and post-colonial issues on the Portuguese art scene in recent years. The primary purpose is to stimulate dialogue between a series of artistic practices and initiatives that have...
Sketch for a museum is a round...
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Alice Geirinhas' Existem Pedras nos Olhos [There are Stones in the Eyes] opened in February, but it dates from March. All feminist struggles are said to belong to March. This is not stated by the artist, who turns her practice into everlasting resistance, without paying...
Alice Geirinhas' Existem Pedra...
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The 60th anniversary of the civil-military coup is now upon us, and Brazil is grappling with the consequences of the putschist storming of the three branches of government and the exhibition Brasil Futuro: As Formas da Democracia, which at the time was on display at...
The 60th anniversary of the ci...
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