The first major European retrospective of José Leonilson’s work has landed in Portugal. The exhibition is an intimate portrait of the Brazilian artist’s life, from the 80s generation, and is on show until September 18 at the Serralves Museum....
The first major European retro...
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When we enter, we see hanging cloths from the ceiling as if they were tapestries. They prevent us from entering, forcing us to swerve or duck. We cannot avoid them - and neither can we avoid the voices we hear, the hidden and marginalized contexts,...
When we enter, we see hanging ...
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Speeding alone at night, Morre Longe, Tiago Alexandre’s latest exhibition at Appleton, has a route: six motorbike helmets display six liquid paintings on the visors. They are stills of a route specified in the exhibition text, as the path from the artist’s house to Lisbon’s...
Speeding alone at night, Morre...
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Spontaneously or deliberately, human beings have always eliminated traces and representations of various historical times....
Spontaneously or deliberately,...
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I was already familiar with the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Venice. In 2019, the artist Joan Jonas had a didactic installation entitled Moving Off the Land II, with drawings and videos in a tribute to marine species and their great diversity. This venue and...
I was already familiar with th...
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Perhaps we can understand Panamérica, lavro e dou fé! Ato 1 - Haiti o Ayiti as the first break in a long journey....
Perhaps we can understand Pana...
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Even perfectly installed, beautifully lit, optimally curated, the fifty-ninth Venice Biennale, which opened to the public on April 23, lacks something emotional....
Even perfectly installed, beau...
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With works by twelve Portuguese artists, the exhibition’s title has its origin in the book A vida invisível de Eurídice Gusmão, by Brazilian writer Martha Batalha. This novel tells the story of two sisters, denouncing a certain female invisibility, in particular that of white middle-class...
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All we ask is to be sown on earth is a sentence said by the collective of wheat grains, claiming to exist according to the cycles of nature and not under the industrial and alienated production system that pushes them away from the former. The...
All we ask is to be sown on ea...
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Part of the Convergent Programme of Anozero’21-22: Bienal de Coimbra, the Seminário project is a response to curators Elfi Turpin and Filipa Oliveira’s challenge to the College of Arts....
Part of the Convergent Program...
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