Essentially documentary, the exhibition Main Entrance. Quinta do Monte (1983-88), at Fundação Carmona e Costa until November 9, displays part of Lourdes Castro’s (Funchal, 1930) life and artistic career. The focus is on her return to the island of Madeira in the 1980s, after 25...
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Those who are familiar with the work of João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira (JPV&NAF) know that it questions the mechanisms of control and codification of the individual, based on their social stratification – codes that protect them, but, on the other hand, contribute...
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Madragoa opened the September season with two individual exhibitions. Kate Newby and Anna Schachinger occupy two exhibition spaces in the gallery: Loved like a sunbeam (Kate Newby, New Zealand, 1979) and Desta maneira não (Anna Schachinger, Austria, 1990) are the first solo exhibitions of the...
Madragoa opened the September ...
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Papendrecht is Guido van der Werve’s solo exhibition at Monitor gallery in Lisbon, inaugurated on September 25.The Dutch artist’s career is unique. He began studying piano at the conservatory and gave up after just under a year. Then he studied classical archaeology, Russian and industrial...
Papendrecht is Guido van der W...
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The studio is a space of uninterrupted constructions and the exercise of art is an extended autopsychography, where the artist builds himself through practice. The result is often a product composed of memories, frustrations, successes and failures, sorrows and joys. It is a silent process,...
The studio is a space of unint...
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Cabra Cega is the exhibition that celebrates the second anniversary of the Balcony gallery. The artist Tiago Alexandre was invited to present a curatorial project and he did it in a curious way. The moment is not one of exultation, much less one of celebration;...
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Galeria Reverso presents the collective exhibition of Portuguese contemporary jewellery Up Till Here, until 18 October.Up Till Here proposes a reflection on contemporary jewellery in Portugal. After celebrating its twentieth anniversary with several exhibitions and lectures (an annual project from 2018 where I collaborated), Reverso...
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Drawing Room has returned to Lisbon for a new edition at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.The 2019 programme includes 14 Portuguese galleries dedicated to contemporary design, with artists such as Pedro Barateiro, Helena Almeida, Júlio Pomar, Cristina Lamas, Lourdes de Castro, Ana Jotta, Luísa Cunha,...
Drawing Room has returned to L...
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The materialization of a piece as a work of art is often a consequence of the process and not so much a final artistic object. For Pires Vieira, the process began about 50 years ago. His work, albeit labelled as painting, encompasses other artistic fields,...
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The exhibition Physics of Portuguese Heritage. Architecture and Memory, at Museu de Arte Popular, lasts until September 29th, becoming part of the European Heritage Days.It will be the last session of the parallel programme of the exhibition, with a conference by the architect João Luís...
The exhibition Physics of Port...
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