Contemporary and sacred art, is this relationship (still) possible?In an attempt to answer this question, the exhibition Stray Gods | Deuses Extraviados, inaugurated on January 24 at Galeria Graça Brandão in Lisbon, extends and updates the dialogue between art and religion, distancing itself from the...
Contemporary and sacred art, i...
Read More
In Public, the Australian Gerry Bibby forces art to look outside. The whole area of Maumaus’ Lumiar Cité is somehow turned inside out and the exhibition is geared towards the exterior, taking advantage of the gallery’s glass walls.Since the space itself seems to have been...
In Public, the Australian Gerr...
Read More
Fernando Lanhas and Álvaro Lapa are two pivotal and emblematic figures in Portuguese contemporary art, particularly from the second half of the 20th century. At first, reflecting about them can be a separate and distinct effort, taking into account the traits and particularities of each...
Fernando Lanhas and Álvaro La...
Read More
Forget the sarcasm and think about beauty. In the context of art residencies promoted by ArtWorks, the expression ‘the fine flower of the rubble’ (the English translation of a well-known Portuguese saying) gets quite close to A Flor e o Espinho, a song by Nelson...
Forget the sarcasm and think a...
Read More
A project for an exhibition-installation by Paulo MendesPaulo Mendes’s most recent exhibition is held in Campanhã, at Espaço Mira, which is simultaneously the artist’s photography, video, study and research outcome.The film-based depiction of that Porto area opens and closes the installation, using two projection panels...
A project for an exhibition-in...
Read More
As a Portuguese, white and privileged woman, living in the postcolonial era, Rita GT, currently residing between Viana do Castelo and Luanda, theorizes and develops her artistic effort. A consistent and recognizable body of work that materializes itself in the simultaneous use of different media:...
As a Portuguese, white and pri...
Read More
Diogo Evangelista works in the field of installation, relying on video or sculpture, but always using a pictorial basis as his starting point. In Organic Machinery, we can see the drawings, although, in this case, the homonymous video was the trigger of the whole set...
Diogo Evangelista works in the...
Read More
The Las Palmas Project has probably been one of the spaces that has mostly welcomed some of the boldest exhibitions and projects in Lisbon, not only for the artists it has exhibited but also for the spatial and architectural characteristics of the space. The easily...
The Las Palmas Project has pro...
Read More
An exhibition trilogy that questions yet another trilogy: Art, Audience and GalleryMarguerite Dura’s poem Negative Hands entitles the collective exhibition of Hugo Canoilas, Vasco Costa and Filipe Feijão, at Galeria Quadrado Azul, in Alvalade, Lisbon. This exhibition intends to introduce the collective artistic project dubbed...
An exhibition trilogy that que...
Read More
When walking around Belém, you should visit Galeria Avenida da Índia, where you can see, until the middle of February, the recent works of the multidisciplinary artist Carlos Motta (born in 1978), a Colombian living in New York.Curated by Pedro Faro and Sara Antónia Matos,...
When walking around Belém, yo...
Read More