-Do you know it? Where is it? What is its name? -It has neither name nor place. I shall repeat the reason why I described it to you: from the number of imaginable cities we must exclude those whose elements are assembled without a connecting thread, an internal rule, a perspective, a discourse. They are… Continue reading
NEW BABYLONS
DIALOGUE(S) WITH A UNIVERSONAUTA
DIALOGUE(S) WITH A UNIVERSONAUTA is a curatorial exercise by Helena Mendes Pereira which gathers the artworks of Volker Schnüttgen (born in 1961) and Domingos Loureiro (born in 1977). More than an exhibition, DIALOGUE(S) WITH A UNIVERSONAUTA is a curatorial meeting and exercise of the conceptual transferability between the artworks of Volker Schnüttgen and Domingos Loureiro,… Continue reading
UTOPIA
For this is the truth: I have left the house of the scholars and slammed the door behind me. Too long did my soul sit hungry at their table; I have not been schooled, as they have, to crack knowledge as one cracks nuts. I love freedom and the air over fresh soil; I would… Continue reading
CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR PAPERS gathers in zet gallery in Braga a set of authors who privilege art on paper, seeing it not only as a medium, but also as a space which makes the development of installations possible: paper is the object and the works of Art combine themselves in differentiating assembly solutions to defy architecture… Continue reading
SINGULAR PACE
Art is not a process of exclusion by trends, but rather a process of requalification and reinvention by modes. The selection of artists enrolled in or recently graduated from the Fine Arts College in Lisbon, who make up the collective exhibition SINGULAR PACE, emerges during the 2018 Opening Galleries (GA-AB) edition, that took place on… Continue reading
DUALITIES OR THE ESSENCE OF INCORPORATION
DUALITIES OR THE ESSENCE OF INCORPORATION is a collective exhibition that gathers five artistic propositions which start from paintwork to the building of bidimensional reading objects, yet parasensorial, which incorporate other subjects, directly or indirectly, creating a game of dual effect that leads us to question concepts such as figuration and abstraction, barroque and minimal,… Continue reading
7 CASE-BY-CASE POETRY FORMS
We have been drinking and feeding ideas out of their places, not because we are genetically resistant to them, but because the ideas which transform societies are not the ones which hover over them, repeated ad nauseam in daily speech, but the ones which create roots and turn themselves into social and individual behaviour, that… Continue reading
ARCHITECTURE(S) IN A MOMENT
ARCHITECTURE(S) IN A MOMENT is a show within the partnership between the, from now on, zet gallery and Santa Luzia ArtHotel, two projects united by the territory and the mission to support the original artistic creation. The space’s architecture, located in the heart of Guimarães historic centre, is one of its many points of interest… Continue reading
THE INSTANTS OF MATTER by Paulo Neves
The artistic personality of Paulo Neves crosses with what we know of his biography. Born in Cucujães, a parish in the municipality of Oliveira de Azeméis, he always made a point of staying connected to the land and it is in the silence of the oaks trees of his property that imagination and sweat give… Continue reading
OTHER IMAGINATED JOURNEYS by Lauren Maganete
Lauren Maganete was born in Bragança in 1970 and studied in Porto, graduating in Business Administration and Management. She is the Municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia’s official photographer since 2009. She has works published in several national and international magazines and newspapers. Lauren participates regularly in individual and collective exhibitions, having already passed through… Continue reading