Artist Nelson Leirner shows at the Galeria Graça Brandão in the exhibition Starting Point. The exhibition, curated by, at the request of the artist, Albuquerque Mendes is set to run until the end of November.In the 1960s, Leirner surprised art critics in Brazil with his...
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Umbigo Magazine spoke with Marc Kean Paker & Merve Pakyürek, coordinators of Lisbon Art Weekend.With 22 sites and 19 participating galleries, Lisbon Art Weekend is not only in its first edition, but the first of its kind for the city. Marc Kean Paker and Merve...
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Serendipity or the art of reading the signs, at Galeria Francisco Fino, curated by Maria Inês Rodriguez, warn us outside to the imminent danger, while quoting Zak Kyes: Strong Currents. When we enter, we encounter Adrien Missika’s photograph, where a book – without a reader,...
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Bad Behaviouor, a deliberately misspelled title, is Adriana Proganó’s suggestion in her most recent exhibition, at Galeria da Boavista.The title’s provocative tone is underlined by the exuberant visual information. At first glance, the various paintings, objects and the checkered floor with blue ribbon make it...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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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