Sometimes, when we meet the players responsible for contemporary art galleries on the Iberian Peninsula, we limit ourselves to urban centres, such as Lisbon, Porto, Madrid or Barcelona. This can replicate old vices, sing the same old songs and privilege faces (and canvases) that have...
Sometimes, when we meet the pl...
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In the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, algae and the female body are the main subject of Ana Kesselring‘s new solo exhibition. Entitled Algae Odyssey, the artist presents ceramic sculptures and a photographic installation, showing a vital union...
In the Analytical Chemistry La...
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Fundo sem Fundo by Sérgio Fernandes [1], at Centro de Arte Oliva [2], curated by Andreia Magalhães, is based on a residency where the artist developed a creative and investigative project on colour and visual perception, between his studio in Lisbon and the art institution....
Fundo sem Fundo by Sérgio Fer...
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Living Your Life, is an exhibition that brings together fashion photographs by Georges Dambier....
Living Your Life, is an exhibi...
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After Lisbon (1994), Porto (2001) and Guimarães (2012), 2027 is the year in which a Portuguese city will once again become European Capital of Culture (ECoC). To nurture a common cultural space, highlighting the cultural features shared by Europeans and the varied richness of practices,...
After Lisbon (1994), Porto (20...
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To orient ourselves in a new building requires us to master the space as if we were performing a kind of cartographic movement. Whether mental, printed, digital, more materialized or intangible, the map is a fundamental instrument - an auxiliary piece to build foundations of...
To orient ourselves in a new b...
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Any Chafes' sculpture only reminds one of a Chafes' sculpture[1], we recall Isabel Carlos’ words about the unique, singular and authorial art of Rui Chafes (1967), while visiting the exhibition Chegar sem partir, curated by Inês Grosso and Philippe Vergne, coordinated by Filipa Loureiro, conceived...
Any Chafes' sculpture only rem...
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Digital arts are the main target of Museu Zer0; the very name of the Museum projects the idea of a reflexive nullity on non-existence, absence, non-presence, non-materiality. One of the consequences of thinking of a museological locus as a non-space may be the atomization of...
Digital arts are the main targ...
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In May 2021, in one of many defining moments of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Swedish composer Mårten Jansson recorded, with the vocal ensembles VOCES8 and Apollo5, the Philharmonia symphony orchestra and the British soprano Anna Dennis, based on the verses of Charles Anthony Silvestri, the...
In May 2021, in one of many de...
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When entering the temporary exhibition Visiting Artwork: Rembrandt, Self-portrait wearing a beret and two chains, the visitor is surrounded by a vast whirlwind, made up of the life-like eyes of the figures in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum’s Portrait Gallery. Until September 12, in a venue...
When entering the temporary ex...
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