At dawn on February 24, Ukraine experienced the first jolts of the Russian invasion, which has since ridden roughshod over that territory. Life as we know it will never be the same again. The world’s current state of affairs shows us the fragility of a...
At dawn on February 24, Ukrain...
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We entered the gallery and realize a large drawing, on the wall called The Rest is Silence, from 2020. The drawing, which gives the exhibition its name, features discs drawn in graphite and acrylic pen. The same disks develop one after the other. Some seem...
We entered the gallery and rea...
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Bricks, pieces of wood, plaster, forms made of clay, cement, ceramics - all impoverished materials in the works of Greek artist Kostis Velonis (Athens, 1968), in his first solo show in Portugal, at Galeria Monitor, Lisbon.Slapstick Masonry is the title of the show, designed to...
Bricks, pieces of wood, plaste...
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The exhibition opens with a lift. With two steps forward and a leap backwards, I realise it won’t let me in, the wall bricks won’t allow me. Ceci n’est pas un ascenseur. Ceci is an image. A photograph, I think, a painting, I realise when I...
The exhibition opens with a li...
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On January 22, 2022, the programming of Kaunas - European Capital of Culture officially began. In addition to Lithuania's second-largest city, this year Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg) and Novi Sad (Serbia) also earned this designation. As always, the programme is ambitious and packed with impactful names, with...
On January 22, 2022, the progr...
Read MoreLET THEM TALK is an video artistic project conceived and directed by Victor Jorge, in which conversations are held with artists linked to theatre, dance and performance....
LET THEM TALK is an video arti...
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Besides the silence and melancholy as we walk through the exhibition Luvas Brancas[1] by Pedro Valdez Cardoso (1974), at Galeria Fernando Santos, we have the works’ duality and irony. There is humour and absurdity, a critical and reflective sense that plunges us into an introspective...
Besides the silence and melanc...
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Approaching Domenico Gnoli’s art, a genius Italian master born in Rome (1933) and deceased in New York (1970) at the age of 37, is like entering a wonderful world.Gnoli is an outlier in international contemporary art: he was neither a realist, nor a surrealist; neither...
Approaching Domenico Gnoli’s...
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Apesar de o título nos remeter a um tempo enraizado no passado, Once Upon a Time, de Rui Castanho, é um convite a um tempo atual que nos diz que tudo é possível....
Apesar de o título nos remete...
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(Português) As inscrições para a Open Call estão abertas até 7 de março...
(Português) As inscrições p...
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