We live in an instantaneous world of policies, promises and platitudes. In the debate between what should and what can be done, where is critical thinking and ecology? Respect and empathy? Do utopias allow for other possibilities?...
We live in an instantaneous wo...
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The reopening of Cinema Batalha, long awaited by the people of Porto, is scheduled for December 9, 2022. It will be a tribute to the venue’s history, while placing it in the contemporary as a Cinema Centre, with Artistic Direction by Guilherme Blanc....
The reopening of Cinema Batalh...
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After Leonilson and Mark Bradford’s exhibitions, Serralves continues to develop bridges with activist artists, with a relevant political voice in Brazil’s recent history - champions of several issues, such as minority rights or the denouncement of the destruction of the Amazon Forest and the resulting...
After Leonilson and Mark Bradf...
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In the introductory note to the exhibition Maria Antónia Leite Siza, 50 Anos Depois[1], in the atrium right before the Serralves Library, we see Álvaro Siza Vieira’s video testimony about the artist (1940-1973) and her practice, mentioning facts and memories narrated not only by the...
In the introductory note to th...
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Cindy Sherman is a contemporary art icon, a renowned name especially in photography. After more than twenty years, she returns to Portugal for an impressive retrospective, at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, in partnership with The Broad Art Foundation of Los Angeles. The exhibition Metamorfoses,...
Cindy Sherman is a contemporar...
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Black, with Wonderful Life, presented the image of parallel worlds, astonishing stories and picturesque images to those who visited aFesta at aDrogaria, on October 1. Wonderful Life kicked off the performance by the artist Inês dos Santos, who integrated the whole aDrogaria team, which took...
Black, with Wonderful Life, pr...
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A badminton shuttlecock hits the head of the gentleman in front of me with a resounding thud. The girls don't notice. The shuttlecock falls into the sand, they pick it up and continue playing. There seems to be an opaque dome separating the two worlds,...
A badminton shuttlecock hits t...
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Any Chafes' sculpture only reminds one of a Chafes' sculpture[1], we recall Isabel Carlos’ words about the unique, singular and authorial art of Rui Chafes (1967), while visiting the exhibition Chegar sem partir, curated by Inês Grosso and Philippe Vergne, coordinated by Filipa Loureiro, conceived...
Any Chafes' sculpture only rem...
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Part of the Serralves Collection Itinerant Exhibition Programme, and following the joining of the Catholic University of Portugal as a founding member of the Serralves Foundation, the exhibition Ajax et Plures by Joana Valsassina - curator of the National Itinerant Exhibition Programme at the Serralves...
Part of the Serralves Collecti...
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Museu da Cidade – Extensão do Romantismo[1], housed in Porto’s Quinta da Macieirinha, has a new exhibition programme which will run for an extended period of time, with occasional additions of pieces and rotation between nuclei....
Museu da Cidade – Extensão ...
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