The exhibition opens with a lift. With two steps forward and a leap backwards, I realise it won’t let me in, the wall bricks won’t allow me. Ceci n’est pas un ascenseur. Ceci is an image. A photograph, I think, a painting, I realise when I...
The exhibition opens with a li...
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My eyes wander over the hastily changing black squares, waiting to check the time. The mechanical ticking of the gears is comforting as if my boarding time is about to appear. I hold my breath in anticipation of the race to the platform. The spinning...
My eyes wander over the hastil...
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«I feel a resistance to the use of the word “bodies” to describe the figures in my work. There’s an important difference between having a body and being a body. Bodies can be almost anything and are often subject to mindless objectification or a loss...
«I feel a resistance to the u...
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Eileen Agar (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1899 – London, United Kingdom, 1991) was one of the key figures of surrealism, a movement where she was reluctantly inserted. The Whitechapel Gallery brings us Angel of Anarchy, a retrospective exhibition of her work and life, which brings together examples...
Eileen Agar (Buenos Aires, Arg...
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The Opening Response titles a special series of interviews with artists, curators, writers, composers, mediators, and space-makers around the world. Dialoguing within and around the thematics which have rapidly emerged as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, we offer within this frame a differentiated, honest, and...
The Opening Response titles a...
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The Opening Response titles a special series of interviews with artists, curators, writers, composers, mediators, and space-makers around the world. Dialoguing within and around the thematics which have rapidly emerged as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, we offer within this frame a differentiated, honest,...
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UMBIGO invited several artists to reflect on the era we are living in and to think about their artistic production in quarantine times. Project by the artist Hugo Brazão...
UMBIGO invited several artists...
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Tim Walker, the most renowned photographer for his association with fashion, presents his dream world to us at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, through the Wonderful Things exhibition.As we open its door, we can read in transparent and floating balloons the title Wonderful...
Tim Walker, the most renowned ...
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Dora Maar (1907-1997), an artist who is best known for her surrealist photography, was forgotten in life. Only after her death was she remembered and appreciated.The retrospective of her work, until March 15 at the Tate Modern in London, shows much of this surrealist photography,...
Dora Maar (1907-1997), an arti...
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Wanting to know the formula of art is as prepotent as wanting to know the formula of life. This does not mean that there are no patterns, behaviours or unknowns capable of being revealed by calculation and logic – a poetic and comprehensive logic, capable...
Wanting to know the formula of...
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