Armanda Duarte (Portugal, 1961) works in sculpture, architecture and installation. As a rule, she seeks an almost dialectic relationship with the space that hosts her works. Elisa Montessori (Italy, 1931) works in drawing and painting, both abstract and figurative. In the gallery Monitor Lisbon, João...
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Visiting the exhibition causes a sensation of incomprehensible memory fragments. The visitor is permanently looking for answers to an uninterrupted list of questions, which muddles and confuses him.But the melancholic sensation and the growing memory mishmash, together with the absence of clues, seem to leave...
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Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of the Portuguese artists who best theorizes his work. To hear him speak is like being in an art history class; it is to know many of the avant-garde moments; it is to question many “safe places” and to realize...
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The silence has been a cause for reflection among many authors and artists. Able to summon a creative and meditative spirit, silence is synonymous with interiority, peace, consolation, but also melancholy and solitude. Also, it is a vote, a political position, a manifestation that, albeit...
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Lusofolia: A Beleza Insensata, curated by António Saint Silvestre, at the Centro de Arte Oliva until March 15, brings together works by renowned and more recent Portuguese, Brazilian and Angolan authors in the context of Art Brut/Outsider.The exhibition was created by collectors Richard Treger and...
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If a work of art is timeless, can a permanent collection (without new acquisitions) have no end; be infinite?This seems to be one of the most debated questions by museum institutions in recent years. It is also discussed by Ana Rito and Hugo Barata, curators...
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In Mariana Barrote’s first solo exhibition at Sala 117, drawings, paintings, video and small objects articulate themselves, literally, in the construction of visual narratives and poetry. The different media used contribute to make drawing, first as a matrix, expand trans-disciplinarily, expanding the heterogeneous nature of...
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Following last year´s section on Latin America, Art Paris' Southern Stars is set to present the art scenes of the Iberian cities Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Porto. Curating this section is independent exhibition curator, Carolina Grau. Carolina has worked as a curator for the last...
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Dora Maar (1907-1997), an artist who is best known for her surrealist photography, was forgotten in life. Only after her death was she remembered and appreciated.The retrospective of her work, until March 15 at the Tate Modern in London, shows much of this surrealist photography,...
Dora Maar (1907-1997), an arti...
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The language and form of stone is a language of time, a form of time. The cells of the land, an elemental composite of rock, stone is also a testimony of labour, of utility, of community, of settlement. It is the polished stone and the...
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