It’s the tenth and final edition of Bairro das Artes. Ana Matos and Cláudio Garrudo, who created the idea for this event, consider that the mission has been fulfilled. The city changed and a new dynamic was born. The cycle has now come to an...
It’s the tenth and final edi...
Read MoreInterview with gallerist Cristina Guerra about her professional career and contemporary art in Portugal....
Interview with gallerist Crist...
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On an August afternoon, José Taborda welcomed me in his studio. We talked about work, motivations and the exhibition Elástico to be inaugurated on 12 September at Zaratan; while we were talking, the works he is about to exhibit laid in front of us, waiting...
On an August afternoon, José ...
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Vasco Araújo (born in 1975) is one of the most important Portuguese artists of his generation. His work is vast and consistent. His themes are centred on issues of sexual, racial or social identity. Vasco has a refined sense of humour, which runs through his...
Vasco Araújo (born in 1975) i...
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Union Jacking. Voice of the Voice£ess, by Yonamine, at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, is a real exhibition; it doesn’t simply show the artist’s recent production. It takes risks and creates an atmosphere of a great installation. It is a characteristic of the individual exhibitions of...
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It may seem to be inside out, at first. Ater, the summer exhibition at Galeria das Salgadeiras, contradicts the lightness and frivolity of the silly season. It’s not particularly sun-driven, but it’s undeniably dazzling.It’s an ode to blackness, from a standpoint that is not dark,...
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A French-born contemporary photographer, graduated in painting from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and in photography from Parsons School, Anne Lefebvre considers the photographic negative the very starting point and works photography based on the error of processing it, in a poetic effort blatantly clear...
A French-born contemporary pho...
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The title sets the tone of this puzzling solo show by Maumaus. The first part of it points out either to “losing altogether the rose-coloured glasses, the illusions, ingenuousness and inventiveness” or to “being released into the wild and confronted with the rude realities of...
The title sets the tone of thi...
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MAAT’s oval room is, as in many European museums, a room more geared towards experimentation. In other words, to works of art that cannot fit into the most common rooms or require that transfiguration, where barriers are needed. This is the case of this spatially...
MAAT’s oval room is, as in m...
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“Of course not, we have never lied to each other; when it’s necessary we just use words that lie for us”. José Saramago Presented as the second stage of the long-term project entitled Chain Reaction, this exhibition is based on a previous exhibition, Brief History of Portugal, that...
“Of course not, we have neve...
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