Irony is the strength of youth and the desideratum of intelligence. In its ambiguity, there is a concept of layers and shades: from humour to terror, from reality to fantasy, irony is the acuity of a purposely contrived truth. Unsurprisingly, the great works (dramatic, literary,...
Irony is the strength of youth...
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23 drawings by João Jacinto (Mafra, 1966) are gathered at the National Fine Arts Society in Lisbon, in the exhibition A chuva cai ao contrário, curated by Manuel Costa Cabral and Nuno Faria and organized by Fundação Carmona e Costa.Declining the invitation to hold a...
23 drawings by João Jacinto (...
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The 2019 edition of the Maia Contemporary Art Biennale invades, questions and deciphers the city based on the Import / Export subject matter. In a city marked by hybrid territories, between the rural and the industrial, and as Maia celebrates the 500th anniversary of the...
The 2019 edition of the Maia C...
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The Galeria Municipal do Porto presents De Outros Espaços, yet another exhibition devised from the EDP Foundation Art Collection. The partnership between both institutions is now extended, connecting the respective cities, creations, practices, discourses and, of course, artists. Available until 18 August. As Michel Foucault[1] (1984)...
The Galeria Municipal do Porto...
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When Fernando Lemos was photographing in the 40s, he repeatedly shot on the same negative until the image became saturated, cloudy, obscure and ghostly. When encountering the photo for the very first time, the viewer was challenged with different stimuli, faces to decipher, murky transparencies,...
When Fernando Lemos was photog...
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The demise of modern souls arrives when machines come to a halt. 1 minute later, stock exchanges collapse; 2 minutes later, air traffic vanishes from crumbling skies; 10 minutes later, panic sets itself around the globe with looting, guerrillas and riots; 1 month later, there’s...
The demise of modern souls arr...
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Anthropomorphism is perhaps one of the oldest artistic manifestations of mankind, immediately after cave paintings. We have the fables in literature and, although Paulo Brighenti doesn’t rely on this stylistic approach, his sculptures seem to be ready to tell stories of long-gone times.Paulo Brighenti has...
Anthropomorphism is perhaps on...
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Canhota [Left-handed], an individual exhibition presented by Mariana Gomes at Fundação Carmona e Costa (extended until 20 July), stands out for its dynamism and boldness. It’s irreverent, disruptive, dashing, humour-laden and unpretentious. It surprises, it knocks the wind out of the viewer, it sets booby-traps,...
Canhota [Left-handed], an indi...
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In Lisbon, when walking up to 30 Rua do Monte Olivete, the storefront shows us a painting that actually resembles a relic. The relic is a metal plate (later we find that it is actually a working die) with a reversed inscription that requires some...
In Lisbon, when walking up to ...
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“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...
“Perhaps the most important ...
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