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Homemade Design — Joana Mieiro

During quarantine, days are made for reflection and ideas are shaped by time. Thus, jeweller Joana Mieiro decided to create the project Lemon_Other lives or one life only: Of memories brought from long visited places, that have no use or specific goal with the inhabited...

During quarantine, days are ma...

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Restless, yet accurate

Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of the Portuguese artists who best theorizes his work. To hear him speak is like being in an art history class; it is to know many of the avant-garde moments; it is to question many “safe places” and to realize...

Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of t...

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Eye-vo-re, Mariana Barrote at Sala 117

In Mariana Barrote’s first solo exhibition at Sala 117, drawings, paintings, video and small objects articulate themselves, literally, in the construction of visual narratives and poetry. The different media used contribute to make drawing, first as a matrix, expand trans-disciplinarily, expanding the heterogeneous nature of...

In Mariana Barrote’s first s...

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Álvaro Siza: in/discipline at Serralves

Name: Álvaro SizaDiscipline: As little as possibleThis is how the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira (Matosinhos, 1933) filled the identification of one of his drawing notebooks. This (in)discipline was the starting point for the exhibition Álvaro Siza: in/discipline, curated by Nuno Grande and Carles Muro, currently...

Name: Álvaro SizaDiscipli...

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Casa São Roque – Centro de Arte

On a recent day of October, otherwise marked by torrential rains, the city of Porto added a new site to its roster of art centres.Nested in the neighbourhood Campanhã, the history of Casa São Roque traces back to 1759, when it originally functioned as a...

On a recent day of October, ot...

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Portuguese Emerging Art 2019

The cultural association EMERGE tries to disseminate projects by emerging Portuguese artists, with exhibitions and the publication of books or catalogues.Launched in 2017, the Portuguese Emerging Art series selects artists at the beginning of their careers, from a list assessed by a jury that comes...

The cultural association EMERG...

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