The questions of ecology have taken the art world by assault, with an activist practice that draws from the compositive and speculative tools of art to think. But similarly, and without forgetting the aesthetic parameters that founded the theory and practice art, the art that works...
The questions of ecology have ...
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UMBIGO invited several artists to reflect on the era we are living in and to think about their artistic production in quarantine times. Project by the artist Carolina Pimenta...
UMBIGO invited several artists...
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This week I decided to go for a stroll on the vast and anamorphic landscape that is the world of Cinema, more specifically its soundtracks. If we discount musical cinema, all music in a film has been almost always relegated to the end, for when...
This week I decided to go for ...
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On the occasion of the curated programme Formula for Fantasy, curator Dasha Birukova interviewed one of the participating artists, James Richards.Formula for Fantasy engages with the themes of imaginary thinking, existence, desire and ambiguity, all part of the rather amusing realm of dreams, or a...
On the occasion of the curated...
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UMBIGO invited several artists to reflect on the era we are living in and to think about their artistic production in quarantine times. Project by the artist Sara & André...
UMBIGO invited several artists...
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The list is too big to fit here so I just decided to pick from pop's songbook 3 hands full of anthems that have eyes set on Mecca and ears tuned in the direction of Jerusalem. Supposedly always scared of the moor, the West never...
The list is too big to fit her...
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UMBIGO invited several artists to reflect on the era we are living in and to think about their artistic production in quarantine times. Project by the artist Francisca Aires Mateus...
UMBIGO invited several artists...
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The timelessness of art is related to the ability of some works to remain current – “contemporary” – as they distance themselves from the moment of creation. Some works only respond, or have that ambition, to an immediate need of their time. Others, remaining the...
The timelessness of art is rel...
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Pedro Valdez Cardoso presents at Appleton’s box an installation that tests the elasticity of a genre whose definition is comprehensive and imprecise, just like the very concept of “contemporary art”. P.V. Cardoso’s project is a deactivated scenography, a play where the audience will always arrive...
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Yacht. Lately this word has been conjured up so much that on Spotify it even serves to label a certain type of music but being really sincere I leave here my opinion that it might as well be just one more marketing ploy. Reshape-remodel of...
Yacht. Lately this word has be...
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