This time, I travelled to Brussels for the 41st edition of Art Brussels, which took place in the Brussels Expo Hall from 24 to 27 April. I saw the city in the breaks from a packed press programme, through the art nouveau windows, but...
This time, I travelled to Brus...
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In Como silenciar o canto dos pássaros, Paulo Lisboa delves deeper into his exploration of the limits of visual perception, examining how the interplay of light and matter reveals what is essentially the very fabric of time....
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Within the framework of Coimbra’s application to the Portuguese Contemporary Art Network, and aligned with a national strategy of artistic decentralisation, the Municipality unveils, at the CACC and Sala da Cidade, the inaugural phase of the curatorial and exhibition project Um Silabário por Reconstruir, conceived by José Maçãs de Carvalho....
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In the beginning, in the show Uivo, a shadow revealed the presence, on stage, of three protagonists. A continuous, computerized sound began to play. Two performers, Maria João Costa Pinheiro and Mariana Tengner Barros, began a dance that, in a whirl, described circles and other...
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It's not every day that we go to a rock salt mine to see an art exhibition. The experience of going 230 metres underground is already fascinating. When I was invited to the opening of Salaris - Ficções a Partir do Sal, an exhibition by...
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Landscape, the concept of landscape, or even landscape as culture, is nothing more than a construction, a portion extracted, a selection made by the observer who enjoys the landscape or welcomes it for the most varied aims and functions....
Landscape, the concept of land...
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If Toscano's forms do not seek the clarity of mathematical constructions or the reality of cerebral facts, could they retain the symbolism of Egyptian art? Was Toscano returning to divine allegory?...
If Toscano's forms do not seek...
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The title of the final phase of the trilogy, Three Colours: Flesh divulges its chosen palette: shades of red and pink addressing the bodily domain. Evy Jokhova avoids straightforward interpretations of her subject, instead staging the encounter with flesh in a more more playfully....
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In the house assembled by Carla Filipe's hands and memory, the walls were built from fragments - drawings, collages, words - that intertwine to reveal not an inventory of objects, but a genealogy of hidden, forgotten, marginalised experiences....
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Whoever holds an archive holds power, for the keeper of an archive can steer both his own historical narrative and that of all who, directly or indirectly, have passed through it. The archive thus exercises a sovereignty that is often insidious, able to keep a...
Whoever holds an archive holds...
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