With a program whose artistic direction is authored by curator and art historian Barbara Piwowarska, Casa São Roque – Centro de Arte, restored and opened to the public in October 2019 as a new art centre in Porto, is committed to revitalizing an eastern part...
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Diogo da Cruz was selected for the UmbigoLAB art residency – as part of the collaboration that Umbigo has been working on with ArtWorks since 2019. After the inevitable postponement, their factory in Amorim could finally welcome him and the project he had presented in...
Diogo da Cruz was selected for...
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Galeria das Salgadeiras celebrates 18 years. Its activity has been distinguished over many years by its dedication and effort in favour of contemporary art.Directed by Ana Matos, since its foundation in 2003 until today, the gallery’s activity has been developed through the promotion and expansion...
Galeria das Salgadeiras celebr...
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Recently, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG) entered a new cycle with the arrival of curator Marta Mestre. Besides the never-ending mission of preservation, dissemination and rehabilitation of the work of an important Portuguese artist, there is now a refreshing (and urgent) vision...
Recently, Centro Internacional...
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In December 1995, Sintra was selected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Cultural Landscape category. The exhibition No Reino das Nuvens: Os Artistas e a Invenção de Sintra, organised to commemorate the twenty-five years of a political and cultural event, was due to...
In December 1995, Sintra was s...
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In 1944, the Italian sculptor Arturo Martini wrote in Sculpture, dead language: “Sculpture will never be spontaneous among men. Nothing justifies its survival in today’s world. In the future, it will only fulfil commemorative and solemn purposes”.At a time when sculptures of more or less...
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Nella Cohorte di De Chirico is a collective exhibition that presents several of the most well-known names hailing from Colégio das Artes de Coimbra.Giorgio de De Chirico, the Italian surrealist painter after whom the exhibition is named, is commonly described as the artist of metaphysical...
Nella Cohorte di De Chirico is...
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Let’s consider the exhibition venue, wide, raw, bare. We are welcomed by a “humanoid presence”, Ariane, who tells us The Fauna of Mirrors, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. This welcoming gesture marks the entrance to the exhibition and the dimension of Whispering Mirrors.There...
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maat (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), in Belém, is one of the national museums that has most invested in international artists outside the circuits usually seen in Portugal, in an equally fruitful and consistent engagement with current environmental or sociological issues. The work of...
maat (Museum of Art, Architect...
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Our most frequent approach to the sky continues to be the contrapuntal perspective. As a rule, we see it as a guide to an atmospheric state or the purest contemplation. Sometimes in search of transcendental thoughts or the sheer and simple pleasure of looking at...
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