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Your Money and Your Life, by Claire Fontaine

Claire Fontaine’s work (a Paris-based collective, founded in 2004) displays an absolute contempt for the art’s Apollonian. The importance of the conceptual annihilates any plastic concern: the pieces don’t emanate any classical proportion, nor the modern spatial layout. Even in the two-dimensional pieces found in...

Claire Fontaine’s work (a Pa...

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Casa São Roque – Centro de Arte

On a recent day of October, otherwise marked by torrential rains, the city of Porto added a new site to its roster of art centres.Nested in the neighbourhood Campanhã, the history of Casa São Roque traces back to 1759, when it originally functioned as a...

On a recent day of October, ot...

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Starting Point, by Nelson Leirner

Artist Nelson Leirner shows at the Galeria Graça Brandão in the exhibition Starting Point. The exhibition, curated by, at the request of the artist, Albuquerque Mendes is set to run until the end of November.In the 1960s, Leirner surprised art critics in Brazil with his...

Artist Nelson Leirner shows at...

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Hugo Olim at Ilhéstico

Hugo Olim (b. 1978, Madeira) is a gleaner of images and sounds. His body of work is one that deals primarily with found footage in an experimental way, incorporating other facets such as sound or technology through a careful treatment of montage and appropriation, seeking...

Hugo Olim (b. 1978, Madeira) i...

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Renate Graf, from thoughts to image

Renate Graf presents her first exhibition in Lisbon, The Photographer’s chronicles: thoughts become images 1992 | 2019, an archive of her images over the last three decades. Her work is a continuous process of travel documentation, particularly in Italy, France, Morocco, USA, India, among others.Through...

Renate Graf presents her first...

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Rural Artistic Residency in Armenia

Lilit Stepanyan pioneered the creation of a rural artistic residence in two small towns, which contrast with the neon lighting and bubbling excitement of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia: Talin (with about 8.000 inhabitants), with a cathedral built in the 7th century; and Byurakan (about...

Lilit Stepanyan pioneered the ...

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Portuguese Emerging Art 2019

The cultural association EMERGE tries to disseminate projects by emerging Portuguese artists, with exhibitions and the publication of books or catalogues.Launched in 2017, the Portuguese Emerging Art series selects artists at the beginning of their careers, from a list assessed by a jury that comes...

The cultural association EMERG...

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