“It's all there—all through history we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth.” Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart (1985) The most neglected aspect of...
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Invited by Susan Bright, curator of the PhotoEspanha 2019 exhibition, Délio Jasse collaborated with other artists on an exhibition inspired by the traditions and artistic ideas of the past.The curator’s goal was to display relevant work in this day and age, emphasizing “the changes in...
Invited by Susan Bright, curat...
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A French-born contemporary photographer, graduated in painting from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and in photography from Parsons School, Anne Lefebvre considers the photographic negative the very starting point and works photography based on the error of processing it, in a poetic effort blatantly clear...
A French-born contemporary pho...
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Leopoldo de Almeida’s sculpture entitled Archeiro (1972) emphasizes the dramatic, replicative and replicable gesture, as well as the absence of an arrow and a “target”, a direction and an end. Whimsically, the great archer (also or simply?) became a mime with tangible and significant absences....
Leopoldo de Almeida’s sculpt...
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The title sets the tone of this puzzling solo show by Maumaus. The first part of it points out either to “losing altogether the rose-coloured glasses, the illusions, ingenuousness and inventiveness” or to “being released into the wild and confronted with the rude realities of...
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MAAT’s oval room is, as in many European museums, a room more geared towards experimentation. In other words, to works of art that cannot fit into the most common rooms or require that transfiguration, where barriers are needed. This is the case of this spatially...
MAAT’s oval room is, as in m...
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“Of course not, we have never lied to each other; when it’s necessary we just use words that lie for us”. José Saramago Presented as the second stage of the long-term project entitled Chain Reaction, this exhibition is based on a previous exhibition, Brief History of Portugal, that...
“Of course not, we have neve...
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The metaphor of the history of images is journey-driven. From conception to production, and then reproduction and repetition, the image is passively subjected to the spatiotemporal flow of human wills and perspectives. And if, until recently, contexts remained attached to images – liken subtitles of...
The metaphor of the history of...
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Ana Fonseca opens next 8 August, 6:30 pm, at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, the exhibition Master Baker, a humorous and ironic portrait of modern society’s day-to-day contradictions.By resorting to the codes and symbols of fitness culture, crossing them with the overpowering appetites of...
Ana Fonseca opens next 8 Augus...
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Quantum Creole, exhibited at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum – Project Space until 2 September, is the result of a long research process (approximately ten years) conducted by Filipa César in Guinea-Bissau, translated into other projects such as Spell Reel (2017), the first feature film by...
Quantum Creole, exhibited at t...
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