A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand is the intriguing title of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s new solo show, currently on view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, in Milan. The exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of the artist’s practice, spanning from the 1990s to the present and including works...
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When we descend to the floor -1 of Museu Coleção Berardo, we immediately hear the machinal noises of (Still) Modern Discomfort, an exhibition curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez. Before that, we see Accident Motion Pictures (2003), an ambulance, and Think Anti-Tank (2014), a military...
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Alto Nível Baixo announces the absence of a measure (perhaps even a metric impossibility). But, more importantly, the idea of paradox that echoes in Galeria ZDB. It is possible to affirm that these two exhibitions were merged into one - Invention Cinema, Brazil (1968-78) and War Drawings by...
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Parasita is suspended in the vault of an old hermitage. It is an oil painting on paper, designed by Rita Ferreira for Projeto Travessa da Ermida. João Silvério is in the role of curator, although he claims that the work did not necessarily depend on...
Parasita is suspended in the v...
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Those who do not know the curator, nor the project showed in this exhibition, will be surprised by the atmosphere when stepping into the Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art gallery. The red colour, the entry text enwrapped in golden tones and the continuous platform, where the...
Those who do not know the cura...
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Mystery, complexity and paradox, three words that came to my mind during the enthralling conversation I had with Carolina Quintela about the exhibition she curated at UCCLA to celebrate 40 years of official diplomatic relations between Portugal and China and the 20 years of existence...
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In the exhibition at Galeria Madragoa, Gonçalo Preto presents several almost pitch-black paintings that, with great subtlety, cut out the figures: bright points that illuminate the night of Middle Finger Pedestrians.The night is what hides part of the vaguely cinematographic images, decontextualizing them and preventing...
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In a partnership between Galerias Municipais and Museu Coleção Berardo, the work of Rui Sanches is presented in two interconnected exhibitions: one at Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, curated by Delfim Sardo, and another at Museu Berardo, curated by Sara Antónia Matos.Rui Sanches is from...
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Fidelidade Arte (former Chiado 8) has always been a diversified curatorial project, focused on less known artists and with a conceptual approach. This was how Bruno Marchand’s curatorship was, inviting artists such as Armanda Duarte, João Penalva and Ricardo Jacinto, among others. And Delfim Sardo,...
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Sometimes it is better to start at the end: Francis Bacon was – his work still is – one of the most remarkable painters of the 20th century. It is unfair and absurd to assume that, for this reason, it is redundant to make an...
Sometimes it is better to star...
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