In 1945, André Bazin wrote the essay Ontology of the Photographic Image. He argued that the birth of photography had freed painting from realism, allowing it to become its muse. For Bazin, unlike painting, photography does not create eternity. It embalms time, subtracting it from...
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«Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.»Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 What happens to the world, happens to us.After all, since the planet’s creation, nothing has been...
«Only that day dawns to which...
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The Cave Photography associates again with Umbigo to suggest a visit to the 31st Encontros da Imagem – International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, 2021.We recommend ten authors with exhibitions until 31 October, divided between Braga and Porto.Genesis 2:1 was the theme chosen for the...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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