These utopias are projected and materialised in Coimbra on the seventh continent, a proposal against idleness, helplessness and ideological abstinence, through the revolutionary gestures of the artists and their works, conceiving alternative futures between reality and fiction....
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Built around a speculative reading of Aby Warburg’s A Lecture on Serpent Ritual, the Biennial seems to summon the serpent’s age-old symbolism and, at the same time, to revive magical-explanatory narratives that have traversed distant eras and civilizations, offering – however provisionally – a sense...
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Emguarda is the title of the third exhibition on view at Centro de Arte Contemporânea da Fortaleza de Sagres since it first opened in November 2022, featuring works by Manuel Baptista (in many ways a pioneering name in the context of contemporary art from and...
Emguarda is the title of the t...
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António Poppe's light installation Rest in Paper works as a beacon in the middle of the night. Not as a lighthouse: no signs of the coast or the sea. Not like a lantern: the light trail is very precise, sharp, blade-like, and does not falter...
António Poppe's light install...
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The 2,600-piece collection occupies the recently opened Albuquerque Foundation, which just opened its doors on 22 February in Sintra. Although only 20 per cent of the collection is currently on public display, it doesn't take much effort to understand Renato de Albuquerque's passion for objects....
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An associative series of images, extending without seeming association, a set of arbitrary ideas, a melancholic resurgence of old artistic tastes, in communion with new ones, reminiscent of a history of art in constant mutation and permanent analysis....
An associative series of image...
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As we enter La Fab, walking through the La collection wing, we encounter a series of works by Korine displayed in such a way that they shift between the already mentioned ghostliness and the second crucial element for the artist's cinema and production: space....
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Housed at Lisbon's Jahn und Jahn gallery, the exhibition Flaming Loneliness bears witness to this style of work, based on exploring a kind of abstract realism. Using his experimental practice, the German artist develops a visual poetry consisting of collapse and hope at the same...
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Studio and factory came together, and paint, disposable materials and other industrial leftovers merged to provide the creative material. It may appear that between the two realities, originality and resourcefulness, are several steps apart, but this year there was evidence of their kinship....
Studio and factory came togeth...
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If, in the birthing stones, the biotite nodules are detached from the granite matrix, Senra's work releases the word from its utterer and transforms it into an independent body. Nevertheless, this separation is not without its scars. There are traces of what is now absent...
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