The city of Lisbon has a number of unique places which revive a forgotten urban and neighbourhood living, on the account of last decades social changes. The public wash-houses are an example of this: huge tanks used to wash clothes and a meeting point between...
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“For me a journey is to return”, Hun Chung Lee often writes and emphasizes. I recall this as I return to the Azores to meet him yet again. We got to know each other in Lisbon when Lee was in residence and a close relationship...
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At the confluence of science, technology, art and poetry, the “Satellites” exhibition by the Brazilian photographer Márcio Vilela - curated by Adelaide Ginga - at the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, in Lisbon, appears as a sort of window on the starry sky...
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Benefiting from the efforts of Fundação Millenium bcp in supporting cultural activities, UmbigoLAB (the social network for art) is inviting all interested to meet us at JustLX and get to know the Android and iOS apps, already available on Google Play and the App Store....
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“We speak of houses like someone who speaks of soul itself”. This passage from the poem Prefácio, written by Herberto Helder in 1961 for the book A Colher na Boca, illustrates Ângela Ferreira’s work for the exhibition Dalaba: Sol d’Exil, through which she summons the house...
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As usual, Umbigo will be part of ARCOlisboa 2019 with a booth and the art project Oracle by the artist Pedro Valdez Cardoso.Oracle draws information from past artworks and foresees the future in thoughts and ambiguous visions. According to the work’s sinopsis, “the project consists...
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Vasco Araújo tem pautado a sua carreira com obras que desafiam o entendimento de temas como a identidade de género, o colonialismo e o pós-colonialismo, o sistema de classes sociais e a política contemporânea que se funda, muitas vezes, nestas problemáticas.A performance Libertas é um...
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A few years ago, an artist was only allowed to set an anthological exposition when they reached a reverential age. Fortunately, in this day and age, an anthology no longer means an elderly artist, but rather one that has a wide-ranging and significant body of...
A few years ago, an artist was...
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In the district of Santarém, the 2019 Coruche Biennial - Percursos com Arte returns, taking place from 28 September to 13 October, and wants “to provide some renovation and dynamism to the area”.Commissioned by the Municipal Museum of Coruche, the event, one that is been...
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Leonor Antunes is the selected artist to present Portugal at the Venice Biennale, a name whose work is of the upmost importance and quality to understand, both in the conceptual, technical and aesthetic point of view.a seam, a surface, a hinge, or a knot, a...
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