The archaeology of the landscape and natural phenomena, mainly the geological one and that of the decomposition of things, has been a leitmotiv of research and representation by several contemporary artists. The rediscovery of nature – not only in its procedural or logical properties, but...
The archaeology of the landsca...
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João Louro is an artist whose work feeds off signs and meanings and what lies between the image and the word. The definition of both is variable, interchangeable, resulting in deviations, errors or redefinitions from a conceptual and plastic standpoint. A word in a dictionary...
João Louro is an artist whose...
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Mariana Dias Coutinho is exhibiting, until 11 June, in the gallery of Livraria Sá da Costa, eleven pieces gathered under the unusual title Oh si cariño.Eleven floor-and-wall sculptures with a blatant procedural independence, grouped under the title’s erotizing metaphor, address conditions related with the body,...
Mariana Dias Coutinho is exhib...
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The Et Cetera Festival opens its doors to three continuous days of music, art and other events that promote several creative expressions. The dynamics obey to the contemporary cultures of electro, light and experimentation, with an array of concerts and an exhibition in the city...
The Et Cetera Festival opens i...
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Émile Zola wrote, one day, that all great artists, in one way or another, give us a new and personal version of nature. The artist sees, she told us, "through their own eyes, and in each one of their canvases, they are able to provide...
Émile Zola wrote, one day, th...
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The smell is the most memory-triggering sense. The odour is the catalyst for a heap of electrical synapses that retrieve, somewhere between the amygdala and hippocampus, a past, an emotion, a mundane mental picture. Smell is an inner, personnel travel, a clash between the past and the...
The smell is the most memory-t...
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We are not ourselves is not a finished exhibition. Everything has yet to be concluded, glued, cleaned, fixed. Plastics have to be removed, there is tape ready to be cleared, ink to be painted, canvases to be positioned. The utensils of the whole assemblage are impudently exhibited as...
We are not ourselves is not...
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Let us forget the centralism of Lisbon or Porto. Let us forget the recurrent idea that Portugal is a mere coast line. Let us remember of other centres, other programs, other communities. Let us remember of other institutions, art museums, art events that are displayed...
Let us forget the centralism o...
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JustLX 2018 has ended and it is time now for an audit, even if prematurely. Either way, and according to the organization, the art fair had a positive outcome, with the galleries declaring a “pleasant” number of sales.At the extreme side of ARCOlisboa, this was...
JustLX 2018 has ended and it i...
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Re Cordum. Voltar ao Coração 5 (2014) is an artwork by the Portuguese artist Vasco Araújo, exhibited at ARCOlisboa 2018, in the Galeria Horrach Moya’s booth.Five African busts represent the collective voice of a forgotten continent, delivered to its insignificance by the West. At the...
Re Cordum. Voltar ao Coração...
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