Between June and July, the images of the artist Teresa Huertas stared at me. They sweetly murmured: "Look, time is flux in movement. Can you inhabit this place? Can you remember what it is to be an atmospheric gas? Try it." The following interview was...
Between June and July, the ima...
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How can one stage the sea with just a few drops of water? This seems to be the challenge proposed by the Swiss artist Peter Fischli, invited by Fondazione Prada, in Venice, to make Stop Painting. This is a collective show focused on the history of...
How can one stage the sea with...
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Memórias de uma (H)era by Paulo Lourenço is an exhibition that shows the limits of serigraphy and the plastic and three-dimensional capacity it can acquire when taken to the extreme. Besides the vegetal and phytomorphic motifs, Lourenço adds the marks of a long process -...
Memórias de uma (H)era by Pau...
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On the occasion of the July’s cover of Umbigo’s online edition, we present (In)Consciência sob um estado de amnésia – movimentos de luta e resistência na cidade do Porto séc. XX, publication in the format of mail art by visual artist Carla Filipe, with the support...
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The importance of architecture as an element that defines societies and shapes environments and behaviours has been studied. Its sovereignty has grown due to the urgent need to overcome the vast ignorance that still exists about the vast wealth and value of modern architectural experiences...
The importance of architecture...
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In Galeria Quadrado Azul we find an installation from the project An Animal with a backpack by Musa paradisiaca.A longline table, inside a cubic construction, is used to place a row of vinyl that, due to their features, present different images in RGB tones, in...
In Galeria Quadrado Azul we fi...
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Fear closes the doors and inhibits the hands, just as night is the shame that closes the bedroom shutters. Some many fears and apprehensions dominate our lives. In Estamos aqui porque voamos, Maria José Oliveira’s (MJO) exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Faro, the boldness...
Fear closes the doors and inhi...
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“The negotiation!”The title of Carlos Noronha Feio’s exhibition at Galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporânea ends with an exclamation. Would it be a matter of urgency? Or relief? The artist’s most recent work contains abstract paintings and sculptures. But, as Alistar Hicks suggests in the exhibition text,...
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Fernão Cruz presents Armoured Room at Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, an exhibition that is part of the cycle On the edges of fiction, curated by Marta Mestre.The Centro’s room occupied by Fernão Cruz extends vertically and horizontally, allowing and challenging the artist to...
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In recent times, several alternative spaces dedicated to promoting contemporary art in Porto have emerged, in a parallel activity to museums, art centres and commercial galleries. Many of these places are run by groups of emerging artists, marked by interdisciplinarity, production, exhibition and cultural exchange....
In recent times, several alter...
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