Cristina Guerra
Interview with gallerist Cristina Guerra about her professional career and contemporary art in Portugal....
Interview with gallerist Crist...
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Interview with José Taborda
On an August afternoon, José Taborda welcomed me in his studio. We talked about work, motivations and the exhibition Elástico to be inaugurated on 12 September at Zaratan; while we were talking, the works he is about to exhibit laid in front of us, waiting...
On an August afternoon, José ...
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A Moment Apart, by Vasco Araújo
Vasco Araújo (born in 1975) is one of the most important Portuguese artists of his generation. His work is vast and consistent. His themes are centred on issues of sexual, racial or social identity. Vasco has a refined sense of humour, which runs through his...
Vasco Araújo (born in 1975) i...
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Union Jacking. Voice of the Voice£ess, Yonamine at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art gallery
Union Jacking. Voice of the Voice£ess, by Yonamine, at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, is a real exhibition; it doesn’t simply show the artist’s recent production. It takes risks and creates an atmosphere of a great installation. It is a characteristic of the individual exhibitions of...
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On light by shadow: Ater, at Salgadeiras Gallery
It may seem to be inside out, at first. Ater, the summer exhibition at Galeria das Salgadeiras, contradicts the lightness and frivolity of the silly season. It’s not particularly sun-driven, but it’s undeniably dazzling.It’s an ode to blackness, from a standpoint that is not dark,...
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Visionary Writing, the celebration of the life and work of Antonio Lopez
“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...
“It's all there—all throug...
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Délio Jasse reveals the hidden side of photography
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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Kraczevo – Anne Lefebvre at ZDB, in conversation with Sérgio Mah and Natxo Checa
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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The archer has turned into a mime – in Ana Vidigal’s installation Bela e Má
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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Parting with the Bonus of Youth – Maumaus as object
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...
The title sets the tone of thi...
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