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...
Six painted steel plates, orga...
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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...
There is a certain archaeologi...
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The installation A palavra, by Nuno Nunes-Ferreira, is at Convento São Francisco, in Coimbra, until December 13, as part of the programme Somos Livres. It features a text by Hugo Dinis.A small room lined with newspapers. Each is a cry, a way of translating the revolt...
The installation A palavra, by...
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Spectrum, curated by Ana Anacleto, is on exhibition at the CAV - Centro de Artes Visuais in Coimbra, until September 13, presenting a selection of works from over 2000 efforts resulting from the Encontros de Fotografia, an initiative conducted by CAV that is celebrating its...
Spectrum, curated by Ana Anacl...
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The exhibition Cápsula by Pedro Henriques is in Coimbra, at Centro de Artes Visuais - CAV, until September 13. Curated by Ana Anacleto, is a selection of the artist's works created in the last five years on concepts such as abstraction and ambiguity, recurrent topics...
The exhibition Cápsula by Ped...
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FACTSCoimbra hosts the third edition of the Biennial of Contemporary Art - Anozero’19. The biennial was curated by Brazilian curator Agnaldo Farias, and Portuguese Lígia Afonso and Brazilian Nuno de Brito Rocha as assistant curators. The project A Terceira Margem presents the work of these...
FACTSCoimbra hosts the thi...
Read MoreIn 2001, Raquel Freire was 26 years old and made her first feature film entitled Rasganço. The film is a furious love letter to Coimbra. It’s her look at secular traditions and codes of behaviour, but also at the city that she deeply admires. She...
In 2001, Raquel Freire was 26 ...
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We are on a pilgrimage in the name of art. Or art is on pilgrimage in our name – this if we rely on the assumption that art is an active property that exists for us and to us. That lives in us. The title...
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It has been considerably discussed the present validity of biennial after its banalization. And if it’s true that this concept has become fashionable in the last decade, capable of dissolving the impact once had, it is also true that this is a model that has...
It has been considerably discu...
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