Mariana Gomes has been one of the Portuguese painters with the most exciting work. The humorous (and constant) fluctuations between figuration and abstraction, through drawing or three-dimensional modelling, always lead us to the central subject of her work: making something out of painting.Perhaps this is...
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Now for the third consecutive year, Umbigo once again shall be present at ARCOmadrid with its own booth.Following suit of the previous two years, in which the booth was host to works by artists Jorge Santos, Rita Gaspar Vieira, and Nuno Sousa Vieira, this year...
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation arrives in the south of the country, at the Palácio da Galeria/Museu Municipal de Tavira, in an exhibition dedicated to the sea – something extremely important for the region. It runs until 23 February 2020, in a special year for Tavira:...
The Calouste Gulbenkian Founda...
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In her most recent exhibition, Carla Filipe transports the city into the gallery. Using codes that reveal the common idea of the urban centre, Filipe’s fictitious scenery is chaotic, uncomfortable and fascinating.This game between the scenic side and the context in which it is inserted...
In her most recent exhibition,...
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Wanting to know the formula of art is as prepotent as wanting to know the formula of life. This does not mean that there are no patterns, behaviours or unknowns capable of being revealed by calculation and logic – a poetic and comprehensive logic, capable...
Wanting to know the formula of...
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Objects Recognized in Flashes, currently on view at MUMOK, testifies to the ambiguities in processes of visualisation; in the subtle state-changes between the static and the fluid in generating images. The four artists showing work – Eileen Quinlan, Michele Abeles, Josephine Pryde, and Annette Kelm...
Objects Recognized in Flashes,...
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Stephen Kaltenbach’s work is about time: how it changes everything, how insights take shape over a lifetime, how identity evolves slowly, how values shift, or deepen, or both. He made this interest literal by creating many time capsules over his career: sealed metal receptacles etched...
Stephen Kaltenbach’s work is...
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In our attempts to understand that which has come and gone before us, we have always looked to the cultural artefacts and heirlooms that have remained after the processes of time have enacted upon them.Yet, upon examining these artefacts; a terracotta vase, a papyrus scripture,...
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Without a permanent collection, but based on dialogues and crossed perspectives, the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar continues the exhibition program that has transformed the work of the deceased artist into a constant novelty. Now, Hugo Canoilas (re)activates Júlio Pomar’s work, taking it to the end of...
Without a permanent collection...
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The most extraordinary journey in the history of the arts took place in the imagination of a writer: at the age of 36, Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth, without ever having visited the site of the story, Iceland. In relation...
The most extraordinary journey...
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