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
zet gallery: from 2018 to the future
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
Unless you love / Do not explain
Billie Holiday wrote and Nina Simone sang: Hush now, don’t explain / Just say you’ll remain / Unless you’re mad / Don’t explain. If I could just go back and add, in a whisper: Unless you love / do not explain. Without the impetus of passion, to create explanations is pointless, whose inevitable outcome is… 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