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...
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There is a non-transferable quality to submersion: ephemerality. The possibilities for resistance are endless, but a human body does not live underwater. It does not breathe. In the time of submersion, the literal body and the voice escape us. This is the warning of José...
There is a non-transferable qu...
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Part of the Ciclo Museu das Obsessões, curated by Ana Anacleto, No More Racing in Circles - Just Pacing within Lines of a Rectangle, by the artist Tris Vonna-Michell, is an exhibition that occupies the CAV, placing the viewers before countless references that take them...
Part of the Ciclo Museu das Ob...
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Caged, Alexandre Baptista’s solo exhibition, is at Galeria Sete, in Coimbra, until June 9. The artist presents several paintings created in parallel to a publication, thought up and produced during the pandemic.In the creative process of his most recent works, Alexandre Baptista uses various photographs...
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Inaugurated on July 4, 2020, the Coimbra Contemporary Art Centre (CACC) underlines the importance of this city in Portugal’s contemporary art, being part, according to José Maçãs de Carvalho, of the city’s cultural polygon. Corpo e Matéria is the first exhibition of a cycle of...
Inaugurated on July 4, 2020, t...
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The College of Arts of the University of Coimbra and the platform UmbigoLAB will start a collaboration program in March, in the development of activities in partnership with the Doctoral Course in Contemporary Art and the Master in Curatorial Studies, included in the Of(f)-Campus Seminar...
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The space of knowledge, class, experimentation, process has reinvented itself throughout (and in recent) times. It has also been the victim of excessive acceleration and a mandatory stop. Pause. One needs to return to the base, to the essence, to the elementary, to learn everything...
The space of knowledge, class,...
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Cães como nós [Dogs like us]At Círculo Sede of Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, until December 30, Looking at Animals reveals itself in the title. But the experience in situ, accompanied by the exhibition text by the curator João Silvério, elicits a reversal of...
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Six painted steel plates, organized in two triptychs, are in the old refectory of the Convento de Santa Clara-a-Nova, Coimbra. They are colossal pieces, which slowly crush us in the relationship with the human body and the punctually absent colour, occupied or united with the...
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There is a certain archaeological feeling when we enter Círculo Sereia, part of the Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, to visit the exhibition Vista para o Parque by the artist Rui Sanches. The sculptures, quasi-faces, which project themselves in matter and space, wood, in...
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