JUST BEFORE WE BEGIN as a show and title points to the pre-discursive, sensation-based domain which precedes the consolidation of concept. Concept is constructed through justification. Just before we begin there may be a void, where the materials are provided from which a discourse can...
JUST BEFORE WE BEGIN as a show...
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Maria Mergulhão is Portuguese artist and poet graduated in fine arts in London, currently living in Lisbon. At the Museu Municipal de Faro, she presents her exhibition Messages in a Bottle.The exhibition encompasses many messages, which come from pop music, a genre heard by the...
Maria Mergulhão is Portuguese...
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Art works on a continuum. It is not just the space that matters; it is not just the filled canvas, the scratched paper, the sculpted block in the construction and deconstruction. Time is also fundamental; it is the record of a passage, of a gesture,...
Art works on a continuum. It i...
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At night, two palisades, two police officers, a piece of meat and a gas lamp, with two hanging posters advertising medical imaging processes. These are the elements of the piece entitled The Heart and The Lungs by Francisco Tropa, at the Galeria Quadrado Azul, in...
At night, two palisades, two p...
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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...
Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of t...
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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...
The silence has been a cause f...
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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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