Perhaps the most striking sensations you feel when you enter the two rooms of the Casa Azul gallery are the roughness and strangeness conveyed by the artistic objects, their materials, shapes and their arrangement in space, in a cold (but sometimes suffocating) and almost claustrophobic...
Perhaps the most striking sens...
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There is one overriding question underlying the Observatório dos Rios project, launched in 2023 by the Guarda Rios collective: "what is a river?"....
There is one overriding questi...
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It only takes a brief car journey to escape the cosmopolitan mayhem and enter a rural world. About 50 kilometres are needed to go from Lisbon to Maceira and Alfeiria, located in the municipality of Torres Vedras. Between these villages - so close and yet...
It only takes a brief car jour...
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Azimuth is an angular distance horizontally measured in degrees, quadrants and clockwise, dividing the meridian of the observer's point and the vertical circle plane that passes through the observed spot....
Azimuth is an angular distance...
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With an exhibition unveiled on January 12 at Centro de Cultura Contemporânea 13 of Cooperativa de Comunicação e Cultura, the Angolan artist Toy Boy, born in 1976 and raised between his neighbourhood/musseque and the whole city of Luanda, looks at the impact and scarring that...
With an exhibition unveiled on...
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When considering and reflecting on a contemporary art project, different challenges emerge, such as temporal proximity, impairing the required critical distance, difficult categorisation and legitimisation as art by critics and by the lay public. Faced with these challenges, and to better understand the conceptual scope...
When considering and reflectin...
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«Death for me is the difference between being and not being anymore». This quote by José Saramago is apparently a good reflection of the spirit of ALBO, by Rui Aleixo, curated by Jorge Reis, which was inaugurated on September 28 at EMERGE's Casa Azul....
«Death for me is the differen...
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On 15 June, the exhibition Deusas Solares Contemporâneas: Extrativismo em Torres Vedras by Inês Ferreira-Norman, curated by Jorge Reis, opened at EMERGE‘s Casa Azul. It is an installation in which, on the gallery floor, an area is bounded within which the goddesses sculpted in copper...
On 15 June, the exhibition Deu...
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The exhibition Expunção by Xana Sousa and Nelson Rodrigues, curated by Jorge Reis, is on view at EMERGE‘s Casa Azul until May 27....
The exhibition Expunção by X...
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Brazilian Wax is the result of the artistic residency EMERGE Carnaval de Torres Vedras 100 anos, conceived and produced by EMERGE, which invited Gustavo von Ha (a Brazilian artist not living in Portugal) to create visual and performative works, regarding the city’s carnival background; and...
Brazilian Wax is the result of...
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