Few artists enjoy the privilege of having 1500 of their own pieces gathered together in one single place. Having started working at the age of 15 and still going strong five decades later is a feat. Bearing one of the most important names in Portuguese...
Few artists enjoy the privileg...
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Cristina Lamas describes this exhibition - the result of a three-month residency she held in the Para Amazon - as "a reminder of the end of languages and knowledge, of life cycles and natural phenomena"....
Cristina Lamas describes this ...
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For an anthropologist - perhaps we could add: and in sociology, being the science closest to the study and context of our actions - the term "alterity" refers to the encounter with the "other". An "other" as in "different"....
For an anthropologist - perhap...
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Uni Verso Plural, at Fundação Carmona e Costa, offers a retrospective of Irene Buarque's career that brings together more than 50 years of artistic creation. From her first geometric paintings to her most recent approaches inspired by nature, the exhibition bears witness to the artist's...
Uni Verso Plural, at Fundaçã...
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Maria Laet's Infinite Measure is born out of the search for contour, its absence and the intersection of territories and temporalities created through gestures that open or occupy. The artist uses nature and matter to deal with the passage of time....
Maria Laet's Infinite Measure ...
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Paradise is a closed garden. Encircled and protected by the divine, an eternal bountiful field can be found where harmony between humans and nature is honoured. And the ideal of paradise is both the beginning and the end, both the Garden of Eden and the...
Paradise is a closed garden. E...
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Along the Jahn und Jahn walls, Julius Heinemman presents his world view in 64 watercolours made over two years. The intimately-formatted works depict different motifs, ranging from landscapes and fragments of domestic environments to mundane items. They are subtle and delicate visual essays based on...
Along the Jahn und Jahn walls,...
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Does the night have legs? Francisca Pinto, Manuel Queiró, Mariana Malheiro and Ricardo Marcelino prove to us, with one leg on their backs, that yes, the night has legs and wants to dance around. Noite com pernas (Night with legs), the group exhibition that brings...
Does the night have legs? Fran...
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Identity. That shifting and morphing thing. Which is body and crowd, which is a choir and a cry in the void. Identity. That vague thing. Unclear to some, so precise to others. Identity. Ever so subjective, and now we are being told: no, it is...
Identity. That shifting and mo...
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Skulls, animals and misshapen bodies populate the Mezzocane exhibition in sculptures and paintings, building up the Enzo Cucchi's sensual, erotic and poetic vocabulary. Whether in ceramics, bronze or plaster, the marks of the artist's hands and fingers are there....
Skulls, animals and misshapen ...
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