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Diana Cerezino: The Blue Hour

I never find it easy to express in words how painting operates, as Diana Cerezino presents in her solo exhibition Com o olhar; Caminhando at Galeria Plato in Évora. The paintings evade the burden of representation and, before them, an exhausted quest for the recognisable...

I never find it easy to expres...

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The Bedroom Series, Martîm

What does Art and Art History reveal about Love? Now without capital letters, lest this question be considered somewhat pretentious: what does art and art history reveal about love? A love with no filters, without any moralising, intellectualising or blemished looks. Where can we find...

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Fenda

In 2023, fifty-five years will have passed since the PhD study that the then young anthropologist José Cutileiro finished at Oxford and published in England in 1971 under the title A Portuguese Rural Society (Clarendon Press). Illustrated with photographs by Gérard Castelo-Lopes and João Cutileiro...

In 2023, fifty-five years will...

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Giving shape to place

In 2011, the publisher Dafne issued a volume of studies by Vítor Silva on the 19th-century painter Henrique Pousão. The book - a gorgeous item -, besides the essays, includes inside the back cover a fold-out “Atlas of images”. When we open it, it shows...

In 2011, the publisher Dafne i...

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Walk the Curve, by Ayelen Peressini + Inês Teles

The São Bento Hill is a pre-historical archaeological place in Évora. A massive granite slab has witnessed the civilizational passage from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic, the long-lost human fluxes and struggles, the transitional and gregarious communities that have branded their mark there. In front...

The São Bento Hill is a pre-h...

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The issues of curatorship

An exhibition assembled against the artists and the space they advocate for their work is doomed to failure.An exhibition that expands itself to encompass more than one hundred authors, not far from two hundred, is doomed to failure.An exhibition that articulates a never-ending array of...

An exhibition assembled agains...

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New cultural events in Évora

Let us forget the centralism of Lisbon or Porto. Let us forget the recurrent idea that Portugal is a mere coast line. Let us remember of other centres, other programs, other communities. Let us remember of other institutions, art museums, art events that are displayed...

Let us forget the centralism o...

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