The works displayed in the project room of Leiria's Banco das Artes Galeria, by Pedro Pousada and curated by António Olaio, express an artistic language traceable somewhere between the first and second avant-gardes. These drawings and paintings inherit "the conquered qualities of the pictorial surface,...
The works displayed in the pro...
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Álvaro Siza Vieira is a striking name in national and international contemporary architecture. His constant presence, with an ongoing and unique production, translates into a priceless body of work. His most recent project, the Álvaro Siza Wing at Serralves, adds to and complements the architect's...
Álvaro Siza Vieira is a strik...
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Alguém, ninguém, the name of Pedro Pousada's exhibition at Galeria Pedro Oliveira, implies a true metamorphosis. More than just extinguishing the exhibition's title, it builds an extraordinary gallery of inhumanity, violence and cruelty, crowded with hybrid beings who can be either victims or executioners, in...
Alguém, ninguém, the name of...
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Punk. Rebellious. Defiant. Obstinate. Dreamer. Such is the seed of the Adorna project, the same as the person who gave birth to it. Estefânia r. de Almeida, the teenager who decided one day to carve out a new path and relinquish her French nationality, embraced...
Punk. Rebellious. Defiant. Obs...
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Xavier Ovídio, a cross-disciplinary artist, has kept a sort of resistance to technological development in his artistic - and day-to-day - practice, even though he is unable to avoid it on a daily basis to attentively capture the environment around him. Many of these recordings,...
Xavier Ovídio, a cross-discip...
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Featuring works from the Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE), the FRESH BREEZE exhibition brings to Germany a selection of exemplary works by a young generation of Portuguese artists, all born in the 1980s and 1990s, whose research and multiple interests find common ground in...
Featuring works from the Portu...
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I have a confession to make. Although António Olaio is a well-known and widely acclaimed artist in the Portuguese cultural scene - and beyond - I had never, out of sheer ignorance, tried to explore his work more thoroughly. That does not mean that this was...
I have a confession to make. ...
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Within me, how much of this space is there? Or, rather, how much of this body - dull, weak, monstrous - is there in this space? This body, a proportion, an encounter and a yardstick of a relationship with the outside and the other.The...
Within me, how much of this sp...
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The non-profit Arte Institute, established in 2011, is committed to promoting and making contemporary Portuguese culture known throughout the world in all its areas, building intercultural dialogues, generating new areas of creation and reflection....
The non-profit Arte Institute,...
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The forms of nature, its fragments, golden leaves, tiny twigs, insects merging in this ensemble, seem blurred, corpuscular. It provides a connection to the cosmological realm and to the outer space record, through cosmography and space fantasy, occupying the human mind since the early 70s...
The forms of nature, its fragm...
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