“We speak of houses like someone who speaks of soul itself”. This passage from the poem Prefácio, written by Herberto Helder in 1961 for the book A Colher na Boca, illustrates Ângela Ferreira’s work for the exhibition Dalaba: Sol d’Exil, through which she summons the house...
“We speak of houses like som...
Read More
As usual, Umbigo will be part of ARCOlisboa 2019 with a booth and the art project Oracle by the artist Pedro Valdez Cardoso.Oracle draws information from past artworks and foresees the future in thoughts and ambiguous visions. According to the work’s sinopsis, “the project consists...
As usual, Umbigo will be part ...
Read More
Vasco Araújo tem pautado a sua carreira com obras que desafiam o entendimento de temas como a identidade de género, o colonialismo e o pós-colonialismo, o sistema de classes sociais e a política contemporânea que se funda, muitas vezes, nestas problemáticas.A performance Libertas é um...
Vasco Araújo tem pautado a su...
Read More
A few years ago, an artist was only allowed to set an anthological exposition when they reached a reverential age. Fortunately, in this day and age, an anthology no longer means an elderly artist, but rather one that has a wide-ranging and significant body of...
A few years ago, an artist was...
Read More
After launching the international Absolut Creative Competition, on November last year, it was received more than 7500 applications at international level – 400 just in Portugal – in a total sum of 350 artists.The Portuguese works were evaluated by the jurors Joana Astolfi, Alexandre Melo...
After launching the internatio...
Read More
“Painting begins where one can no longer speak of it, where words fail and drift away.” Júlio PomarPainters delving into painting, an open dialogue, that’s the proposal of the whole set of exhibitions of pairs of painters who are part of Sindicato dos Pintores, organized...
“Painting begins where one c...
Read More
Filipa Oliveira is the curator of the second edition of the Navigator Art on Paper Prize, which distinguishes the best international paper-made productions.Contemporary art has prompted the experimentation and hybridization of techniques and means, and the immediate association that paper is merely the support of...
Filipa Oliveira is the curator...
Read More
The concept of drawing, in the collective imaginary, refers to an idea of a graphic and two-dimensional representation on a given surface. In Ser Sombra (Desenho), António Bolota displays drawings with three-dimensional elements activated by the projection of a light beam. A dialogue between work...
The concept of drawing, in the...
Read More
The title of Nuno Nunes-Ferreira’s exhibition at the Balcony Contemporary Art Gallery (on display until May 20) is entitled dois anos e meio [two years and a half] and it represents the period that the artist devoted both to research efforts and to their materialization,...
The title of Nuno Nunes-Ferrei...
Read More
A mysterious, nocturnal, and oneiric environment is created in the exhibition Fauna by the artist André Romão with the complicity of Pedro Lapa, curator of the exhibition, at the Museu Coleção Berardo. Conceived as an immersive scenario in four acts, it presents several types of...
A mysterious, nocturnal, and o...
Read More