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
UTOPIA
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
Free Drawing and Painting Course
Duration: continuous training (pause at August and September) Hours: Wednesday from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monthly fee: €40 (VAT included) Trainer: Ana Monteiro About the course Aimed at beginners and people who want to deepen their knowledge, the Free Drawing and Painting Course develops on the idea that anyone can paint. For centuries, painting… Continue reading
zet gallery: from 2018 to the future
In 2018 we became zet gallery. This was the missing change to the project in which the visual arts are thought and promoted in the context of dstgroup’s cultural backbone. Last year there were six exhibitions in a path which began with the photography of André Castanho Correia (b.1988), Gabriel Tizón (b.1973), Dimitri Mellos (b.1970),… 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
Collaborate: a path and/or a choice
Ricardo Pistola’s project required a collaboration due to the lack of time and to the dimension of the wall. It was, then, suggested for me to participate on the preparation of this painting, and, therefore, I am grateful for the experience. Since the first day that Ricardo and I created a proximity of ideas, which… 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
zet gallery
José Teixeira (b.1960) has in engineering his academic and professional base. He is dst group’s Chairman and it is, therefore, difficult to distinguish his patron and collector of contemporary art’s DNA from the philosophy of the holding company that believes that culture is the great factor of differentiation for the economy’s competitiveness and that the… Continue reading