Muxima: Edson Chagas at .insofar
Edson Chagas’ first solo exhibition in Portugal takes place at the .insofar gallery. A gallery that opened very recently.The place offers us an obscured vision, caused by a diffused light, coming from a dimly lit room. We foresee several lightboxes that emit images of muddy...
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Berlin Gallery Weekend Discoveries. Jonas Roßmeißl, Die Neue Statik | A new static, at Klemm’s
slowly build up the sentence by reduction to absurdity In an apparent attempt to communicate through negation, sealing off access to the wrong statement each time, limiting the script without ever stating it, Jonas Roßmeißl uses a specific peacefulness to present a meticulous and critical work...
slowly build up the sentence b...
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Citizens of the Cosmos: Anton Vidokle at Espaço RAMPA
Citizens of the Cosmos, an exhibition by Anton Vidokle, curated by Miguel Amado and Alexandra Balona, on view until October 16 at Espaço RAMPA, shows us Russian Cosmism, its different philosophical, artistic and scientific theories, conceptions of immortality, resurrection and extraplanetary prospection, as well as...
Citizens of the Cosmos, an exh...
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Interview with João Pimenta Gomes, author of Umbigo’s cover of the month
The Gallery of the Portuguese Embassy in Berlin opened on September 16 the new solo exhibition of João Pimenta Gomes, called Clouds. Visual artist, musician, performer, he gives preference to the first designation, stating that all his interest is centred on works exhibited in a...
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Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score (Lisbon, 2021)
Any performance implies a cut. The reality with which we interact daily distances itself when we set foot in the performative space: we become observers who, while simple attentive witnesses, become participants in the act; we enter the space of dynamics, of symbolic dialogue, of...
Any performance implies a cut....
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Vultures and a “grown man crashing his toy car”
Casa da Cerca’s circular cistern serves as a shelter for Raposa, an installation by André Romão. The artist recovers a recurring object in his work: the reflection on the encounter between bodies and the synthesis of our existence. This materialisation is the expression of the...
Casa da Cerca’s circular cis...
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A past that has not fully passed yet
Interdisciplinary artist with an undisciplined voice, ready to be heard, this is the cry of Grada Kilomba, through different academic and artistic languages, the central point of a work that speaks about history, memory, trauma, colonialism, racism. The past that has already passed, tidied away...
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Fósseis – Fragmentos Pós-Arqueológicos by João Dias, at Quinta da Cruz – Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Viseu
With a background in painting, João Dias presents sculptural objects, where sculpture goes beyond its limits, alongside painting, archaeology and the new technologies of three-dimensional printing....
With a background in painting,...
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Composição para um espaço com base nas estrelas e planetas: Sérgio Carronha at Galeria Municipal de Almada
In the exhibition Composição para um espaço com base nas estrelas e planetas by Sérgio Carronha, at Galeria Municipal de Almada, we encounter several mysterious paths and alignments set off by the artist’s pieces. Paintings with earthy tones cover the gallery windows, like concentric circular...
In the exhibition Composição...
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