Mariana Gomes has been one of the Portuguese painters with the most exciting work. The humorous (and constant) fluctuations between figuration and abstraction, through drawing or three-dimensional modelling, always lead us to the central subject of her work: making something out of painting.Perhaps this is...
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In her most recent exhibition, Carla Filipe transports the city into the gallery. Using codes that reveal the common idea of the urban centre, Filipe’s fictitious scenery is chaotic, uncomfortable and fascinating.This game between the scenic side and the context in which it is inserted...
In her most recent exhibition,...
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Without a permanent collection, but based on dialogues and crossed perspectives, the Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar continues the exhibition program that has transformed the work of the deceased artist into a constant novelty. Now, Hugo Canoilas (re)activates Júlio Pomar’s work, taking it to the end of...
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The most extraordinary journey in the history of the arts took place in the imagination of a writer: at the age of 36, Jules Verne published Journey to the Centre of the Earth, without ever having visited the site of the story, Iceland. In relation...
The most extraordinary journey...
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A Nástio Mosquito's recipe“What was your last experience of 'black labour'?"The question is asked by Nástio Mosquito in his most recent exhibition No.One.Gives.A.Mosquito's.Ass.About.Trabalho.De.Preto, a collaborative and multidisciplinary project that gathers several individuals in the dissection and reframing of the expression “black labour”.The exhibition at Hangar,...
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Galerias Municipais joined Diferença to celebrate the forty years of the cooperative, in an exhibition divided between the Quadrum gallery and the Diferença gallery, near Largo do Rato. This bipartite exhibition marks the beginning of Tobi Maier’s work as a curator at the Municipal Galleries,...
Galerias Municipais joined Dif...
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What is the impact of the ways of exhibiting art on the viewer’s experience? Should this experience be a shock or a comfort? Should it be personal or communal? What is the relationship between temporary and permanent exhibitions? Are solutions designed for some more likely...
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The digital field is a labyrinth of texts, contexts, hypertexts, images and myths which construct and deconstruct fairly often, full of references, hyperlinks and different characters. It’s a labyrinth as dense as the labyrinth of the cosmos, as complex as the Daedalus labyrinth. Within this...
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As they do every so often, Sara & André, allow me, this time, to be accompanied by another artist. Sturtevant, or Elaine Sturtevant, passed away in 2014. But, for about five decades, she developed an ad continuum project that (fortunately) kept unfurling more questions and...
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Umbigo Magazine spoke to Francisca Aires Mateus about her work, Musica Humana, for which she was selected as a finalist of the 2019 edition of the Sonae Media Art Award.Inspired in part by the Proust Questionnaire, Musica Humana was produced by the formulation of code...
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