When considering and reflecting on a contemporary art project, different challenges emerge, such as temporal proximity, impairing the required critical distance, difficult categorisation and legitimisation as art by critics and by the lay public. Faced with these challenges, and to better understand the conceptual scope...
When considering and reflectin...
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Light is the key material in Paulo Lisboa's artistic expression. With a body of work that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of drawing, light is the medium that sets the work in motion and takes it to a concealed, cosmic dimension. The exhibition Cycloptic, on...
Light is the key material in P...
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These faces stare at us one after the other, in motion. They tell us stories, their story, the story of Escola da Vila, they look at us. They have all passed through or are in some way related to Escola da Vila in Porto Santo,...
These faces stare at us one af...
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Henrique Tavares Ferreira addresses the why and the how, thinking and its manifestation, on Umbigo's December cover. Merging science and art, his gesture is an empowering way of sending a much needed message, a warning or a reminder, which neither dictates nor passes judgement, but...
Henrique Tavares Ferreira addr...
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Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar opened its doors to the public in 2013 with the exhibition Em torno do acervo, a first foray into the artist's extensive body of work. Right from the start, the venue itself was an invitation, due to its breadth and natural light,...
Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar ope...
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Fornada, the name of the exhibition featuring works by Ana Vidigal and Luís Rocha, uniting two artists from different generations and with highly diverse formal languages, semantically describes in Portuguese the material that enters the oven to be baked, forged, made, manufactured....
Fornada, the name of the exhib...
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My visit to Miguel Soares' Chance Meeting exhibition at Rialto6 took place quite a while ago, since I started writing this text. I must confess, from the outset, that I'm not the best at taking notes either: on revisiting my notebook, I'm confronted with random...
My visit to Miguel Soares' Cha...
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The exhibition Fora de Registro is Albano Afonso's new solo show, open until December 22 at the Casa Triângulo gallery in São Paulo's Jardins neighbourhood....
The exhibition Fora de Registr...
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Drawing on the legacy, influence and importance of surrealism in the visual arts, A Revolução na Noite, curated by Ana Anacleto at Centro de Arte Oliva (CAO), is presenting for the first time nearly 200 artistic productions made between 1910 and 2021 from Coleção Millennium...
Drawing on the legacy, influen...
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A busy evening featuring two dance performances by Quorum Ballet at Cine-Teatro D. João V, Amadora. The first show was S.Ó.S, created by Daniel Cardoso (the company's artistic director), one that debuted in 2020 and brought back to the stage one of the most difficult...
A busy evening featuring two d...
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