The artist-alchemist is the one aspiring to live, not to see. They choose matter over representation. Their wonder is found in the seemingly banal nature of ecological and biological phenomena, and not in the intellectual discussions that they can trigger....
The artist-alchemist is the on...
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Between lightness and density, line and colour, brightness and darkness. Landscape overviews, close-ups exposing the stitching and nerve of both pigment and line, in a ralenti travelling, according to the gradation of tones, colours, lights and shadows, an idea that comes extremely close to time...
Between lightness and density,...
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Grasping the totality or attempting to translate and dematerialise everything behind the work of José Loureiro, as well as trying to account for his choices or lack thereof - to go down this road and not go up that one - proves to be a...
Grasping the totality or attem...
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Umbigo #91 closes the cycle of publications planned for 2024, this time dedicated to Disappearance. What at first may seem vaguely pessimistic, it then gains another interpretation – that of resistance to forgetfulness, erasure and neglect, exploring, in this way, the fields of ontology, political...
Umbigo #91 closes the cycle of...
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The sun gives without receiving: men were aware of this long before astrophysics measured this unceasing prodigality; they observed it ripen harvests and linked the splendor that is his to the gesture of he who gives without receiving....
The sun gives without receivin...
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The origins of photography can be traced back to the Sun. Lest we forget, the root of the word comes from Greek and can be read as writing or drawing with light. Cinema is the art of the moving picture as written by the sunlight...
The origins of photography can...
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According to Tolkien's cosmogony in The Silmarillion, the world went forth into existence by the choir of the Ainur spirits, manifesting all things. ‘And the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void’....
According to Tolkien's cosmogo...
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Some narratives are born with an ‘alien’ perspective - as opposed to the notion of ‘indigenous’ (someone who is native to the land), based on a perception from distant lands. This viewpoint is an attempt to overcome the idea of the ‘epistemological abyss’, which has...
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This is not the easiest time of year. With all the joy of getting back together, keeping an eye on the world at home and abroad, family obligations and the end of the tax year, there is a massive and resounding sense of worry. I...
This is not the easiest time o...
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Created by Hugo Brazão and Elizabeth Prentis, CHAIN REACTION is an ambitious program seeking to establish bridges and strengthen ties between Portuguese artists and a network of foreign cultural agents – curators, gallerists and institutions.At the genesis of the project is a strong collaborative, informal,...
Created by Hugo Brazão and El...
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