Our social behaviour and interaction are developed according to very specific languages, within the landscapes in which we grow or live. This was the greatest discovery of gender studies which, in turn, forced a review of the canons of that time and a dilation of...
Our social behaviour and inter...
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Contemporary art has made its most acute path outside the big institutions. Independent movements and initiatives were of the utmost importance in the development of the artists’ works, but, above all, in the affirmation of the critic verve inherent to those works: the critic of...
Contemporary art has made its ...
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Manuel Casimiro is a Portuguese artist with a long career divided between painting, sculpture and photography, through which has developed a rather specific language – the so-called casimirian eggs.Working the theme of image appropriation in an era – as Walter Benjamin thoroughly argued – of...
Manuel Casimiro is a Portugues...
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Let’s reverse the route. Let’s start at the end. Let’s start, actually, with the exhibition’s last work. Because the end is everywhere, from the first to the eighth moment of this route – not exactly the consummation, rather the imminence. Volta (2018), on the lobby’s roof, encloses the...
Let’s reverse the route. Let...
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As soon we take the road that leads us to Palace of Ajuda, we feel the odour of trees and we hear the birds tweeting. For a moment, it seems that the frantic movement of Belém has been left far behind, much more than the...
As soon we take the road that ...
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The 70s were prolific in porn flicks. Until the early 80s, there was an array of films associated with the so-called classic gay porn. The industry, liberalized, was making movies after movies, but still within the minimum standards related to scenography, script, acting and photography....
The 70s were prolific in porn ...
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It is important to recall the thesis of the end of painting, the one that is born and reborn, again and again, reaffirming its constructive potential. Surely, it carries the creative gesture that is denied to it, starting with the fatalistic nature of its own...
It is important to recall the ...
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The machine. The motor, the cables, the construction. Turning the visible into invisible. Approximately 300 works on paper that establish what MAAT designates as drawing-installation and that come together under the banner of Miguel Palma’s anthology, based on his less known work. This way we...
The machine. The motor, the ca...
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We all have that place where the absence of light allows us to see the stars, the absence of noise allow us to listen to the wind surrounding the crops - or the “deeper silence when the crickets hesitate,” as Cohen says –, where the absence of what is...
We all have that place where t...
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The exhibition of works of art abides by criteria that, more often than not, are more subjective than objective. There are criteria, there are standards, but, at most, the curator or commissioner is the one who establishes them, based on their critical review of those...
The exhibition of works of art...
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