A collective exhibition at Galeria Filomena Soares was inaugurated on March 24. The exhibition, entitled Maré, occupies three rooms of the building, and is curated by João Silvério.This exhibition’s intent is, based on the group of artists represented by this gallery, to find bonds between...
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"Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?” (Kundera, 1983)In a first moment, the work of Tomás Saraceno says yes. Effectively, the lightness of his works, the incorporeal, diaphanous semblances of his fluttering pieces are appealing and inside of us they are consolidated in a desire for equality: I...
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The exhibition Tanto Mar, Fluxos Transatlânticos pelo Design can be seen until 15 July and is part of the programs MUDE Fora de Portas and Lisbon Ibero-American Capital of Culture, in Palácio da Calheta.This exhibition has the drive to be a space of recognition, awareness and debate on the wealth...
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Locus19 is a brief exhibition which follows an unusual model within the Portuguese praxis regarding the occupation of expectant spaces. In a city like Lisbon, prone to mass tourism, events like this constitute an escape to the typical and monotonous experiences of big metropolis.Sixteen artists,...
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In O Deus da Carnificina [God of Carnage], the actors could be trapped in any room, akin to the Big Brother phenomenon translated into those horror flicks in which we expectantly wait to know who is going to be the last survivor of the “house”, or when the cannibalism...
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Is a work of art, nowadays, anything more than a product of the most lucid cynicism, of the most cynical lucidity? There was a time when innocence was summoned, when disengagement was declared, a certain kind of distance. The creation without a cause, the possibility...
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Artifício Visceral [Visceral Artifice] is the newest exhibition by Jack Mugler which will open at Casa Pau-Brasil next 28 March, with a curatorship divided between Thiago Verardi, Cristiana Tejo and Marilá Dardot.In this show, the artist structures his works around the hyper saturation of our...
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The history of the contemporary art has been acknowledging a generalized appropriationist trend in the artistic practice field, dwelling – repeatedly, it must be said – on the incorporation of the archeologic, ethnographic, cartographic, documental or archival imagery. Indeed, the contemporary artist has been, eagerly...
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Some names are repeated in other private collections of Contemporary Art, assembled in national territory, as if there were a more or less communal map. The same names are present at exhibitions that mirror the recent acquisitions of public museums, at least of those that...
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