“Perhaps the most important creative activity in my life was not pictorial”, these are the words of Manuel Costa Cabral, who in 1963 graduated in painting from the Superior School of Fine Arts in Lisbon. His professional career was not merely confined to working in...
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An exhibition assembled against the artists and the space they advocate for their work is doomed to failure.An exhibition that expands itself to encompass more than one hundred authors, not far from two hundred, is doomed to failure.An exhibition that articulates a never-ending array of...
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Handicrafts, including weaving and tapestry, have, for a long time, been associated with artistic efforts. The so-called manual labours have always been a domestic and feminine activity. Homer described it in Odyssey: Penelope was expecting Ulysses’ arrival and, as a way to avoid the horde...
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The family heirloom is the witness of an individual’s cultural education. Book, disks, photos, papers, homes are sediments of that homunculus monument called personal and individual identity, made of memories, teachings and learnings.On recurrences, by Ana Guedes, meets these ideas e takes shape from a...
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Nocturno is the site-specific installation that marks the return of the Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto to our country, shown at Appleton Square until June 22, curated by David Barro. Sharing the title of the exhibition held last May at the Casa Triângulo gallery, in São...
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Dialogues: Pirgo de Chaves, an object obtained from an archaeological excavation lends the title to Francisco Tropa’s exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. However, it’s the dialogues that are the true dynamo of the exhibition. Not only the dialogue that Tropa perennially establishes between the...
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Gonçalo Conde has been feeling the urge to be connected to the art realm since he was 13. His greatest passion is fashion, but the gateway to this world has been the antiquities he has collected since his twenties. Life led him to opt for...
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Fiction and Fabrication. Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn is an exhibition assembled by Pedro Gadanho and Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues, whose leitmotif is the evocation of Photoshop’s thirtieth anniversary and the consequent banalization of digital tools in photography, it is found at MAAT’s Main...
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"Whenever we speak of nature, we exclude her from ourselves" It was my friend Cayetano Limorte (Ernesto Neto. El cuerpo como lugar común, Ediciones Asimétricas, 2018) who, for the first time, told me about the carioca artist Ernesto Neto (1964, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). His works...
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The city of Lisbon has a number of unique places which revive a forgotten urban and neighbourhood living, on the account of last decades social changes. The public wash-houses are an example of this: huge tanks used to wash clothes and a meeting point between...
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