Seres Vulneráveis/Vulnerable Beings, Tuning In is the first of two public assemblies curated by Andre Bagnato and Ivan L. Munuera at the MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon.This programming is a consequence of the identification of human vulnerabilities to pandemics and...
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With brilliant, mediocre, insensitive, or protesting ideas, artists insist on daily studio work, choosing to ignore the crisis that is brewing or contributing to its critique (depending on the point of view). From a historical standpoint, art reflects issues of contemporary social and political life....
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The eye is the organ that dictates, that commands and synthesizes. The eye monopolizes and the information captured by it precedes all the other senses. In a visual age, where the image carries an ontology that is intertwined with that of modern civilization, the eye,...
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A Third Reason and Clavier à Lumières are the recent shows at Rialto6. These two solo exhibitions by Alexandre Estrela and Igor Jesus bring together a group of audiovisual installations that transform the exhibition room into a sensory experience, stimulating the limits of the spectator's...
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The works in blackA moment of pause. Or perhaps the beginning of a journey: solitary, silent and spiritual, towards distant times. An experience of abandonment and bewilderment. An invitation to pilgrimage. The emergence of discomfort and doubt. The renunciation of entertainment. An unhealed scar. The...
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The exhibition It’s not a landscape, It’s a battlefield, on view at Galeria 111, brings together a handful of drawings made by artist Alexandre Conefrey, in dry pastel on paper. The drawings extend throughout the gallery space, in a linear fashion, and emerge in a vibrant...
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Oscar Giaconia shows his work for the first time in Lisbon with the set CRYPTOZOOGODEMICHET at MONITOR Lisbon. There are seven bodies that emerge in a language of various layers and transparencies. These emphasize the artist’s knowledge and practice: to build a symbiosis between the...
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Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art gallery brings Lawrence Weiner to Lisbon in Around the World, an exhibition that shares its name with a work made in 2020 by the artist, whose intention is to think about location based on an imaginary line of reference, from which...
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Several key works to understand the work of Alberto Carneiro (Trofa, 1937-2017) are in the exhibition Os caminhos do corpo at Lisbon’s 3+1 Arte Contemporânea. Known above all as a sculptor, his work encompasses photography, drawing and sculpture. This exhibition reveals the artist’s vast universe,...
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In 1945, André Bazin wrote the essay Ontology of the Photographic Image. He argued that the birth of photography had freed painting from realism, allowing it to become its muse. For Bazin, unlike painting, photography does not create eternity. It embalms time, subtracting it from...
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