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 Francisco Correia.—Francisco Correia, Templates #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, 2020. Pigmented colouring pens on paper, 21x29,7cm (each)For those used...
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Art in strange timesIt’s strange to write about art in this dark moment. To write and think about the global threat of a pandemic that has suddenly put millions of lives and the health of us all at risk.I must say that, for better or...
Art in strange timesIt’s...
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During quarantine, days are made for reflection and ideas are shaped by time. Thus, jeweller Inês Nunes decided to create a collection of artist objects to be used in the chest as pins, taking as reference the cardboard rolls of toilet paper. No matter the...
During quarantine, days are ma...
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Curated by Emília Ferreira and Hugo Dinis, in Encontro às Cegas we should not expect expectations to match reality. If we do, we may feel misled in the end. After all, if a meeting is based on the present and a presence, inside the MNAC...
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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 Ana Vidigal....
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This is Álvaro Lapa and here we evoke him, asking: “Does reading solve”? The title, taken from one of his works, does not come up with a decision. In it, images, their senses and meanings move in water and air. Stylish, weak, ductile are also...
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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.Today we start this new section, being the first project by the artist Pedro Valdez Cardoso.—Pedro Valdez Cardoso, ISOLATION, March 2020"Surrendered to self...
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JUST BEFORE WE BEGIN as a show and title points to the pre-discursive, sensation-based domain which precedes the consolidation of concept. Concept is constructed through justification. Just before we begin there may be a void, where the materials are provided from which a discourse can...
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Art works on a continuum. It is not just the space that matters; it is not just the filled canvas, the scratched paper, the sculpted block in the construction and deconstruction. Time is also fundamental; it is the record of a passage, of a gesture,...
Art works on a continuum. It i...
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At night, two palisades, two police officers, a piece of meat and a gas lamp, with two hanging posters advertising medical imaging processes. These are the elements of the piece entitled The Heart and The Lungs by Francisco Tropa, at the Galeria Quadrado Azul, in...
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