Elizabeth Leite was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 21st 1982 and has resided in Oliveira de Azeméis, Portugal, since 1989. In 2005 she finished her university degree in Painting in ARCA | EUAC (Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra) and in 2006 she attended a Master’s Degree in Aesthetic Communication in the same institution,… Continue reading
A meter or a matter of point of view
Joana de Carvalho e Silva and an endless source of parallelisms and identifications
The purpose of things is, precisely, this movement that they bring in themselves, this tendency, born of the contradiction between their finite nature and that which transports them beyond themselves, into the infinite, […] identifying themselves with reality in its entirety, or rather, with God.[1] This text has a before and after and a story… Continue reading
(In)visible Scrutiny – Painting, Cinema and Simulacrum
Painting has always been a practice whose contexts embrace in multiple relations with the simulacrum and in which the distinction between art, reality and everyday life is diluted in the image. As Didi-Huberman reminds us (2012: 191), during the creation and interpretation process of the image, we have to consider the dialectic of the image… Continue reading
A SECOND LATER
A SECOND LATER suggests the time of the missed opportunity, the break between the act and the contact. In the most common apprehension of the artistic disciplines’ domain, drawing and illustration (ignoring the primitivism of Art as a narrative of daily life and heroes perpetuation) appear to us, not rarely, as the before or parallel… Continue reading
Photography in Art
A year ago, we thought of photography as matter that we knew needed to be elevated. The characteristic restlessness of photographic practices matched with the audacity that invaded us when having the gallery shairart dst as a blank space. A continuous action between talent search and encounter returned got us back to the original exhibition’s… Continue reading
o/accidental T-E-R-R-I-T-O-R-I-E-S
The reader will consent me the linguistic derivation and the appropriation of a neofuturistic plastic tendency to use the word as image, in the poetic bridge with the political message of this exhibition, one more, at gallery shairart dst (Braga), which is intended as a starting point, not so much for judgments of art criticism,… Continue reading
IN 2017 SHAIRART CHANGED…
In 2017 shairart renewed itself: its team, energy and strategy. We wanted to make cool collecting Contemporary Art and inspired by Walter Chrysler’s words: “Buy art because you like it and because it moves you, and because it enhances your life”, we added the appeal: Be a collector. The fabulous space at Raio street was… Continue reading
APPROPRIATION, ACCUMULATION AND ANNULMENT by Ricardo de Campos
In the year he marks 40 years of age, Ricardo de Campos (n.1977) goes through my curatorial universe three times. The first, in February, with an individual showcase at Porto, where he literally appropriated a warehouse filled with the human accumulation excess, in a postmodern context, to create the new, without withdraw himself from its… Continue reading
LOOK BACK, GO AHEAD
The fable, in the true sense of the word, is what deserves to be said. For a long time, in Western society, everyday life could only have access to the discourse when crossed and transfigured by the fabulous; it had to be withdrawn out of itself by heroism, feat, adventures, providence, and grace, and eventually… Continue reading
Fernando Marques de Oliveira
There is in Fernando Marques de Oliveira’s work (n.1947) the architecture’s space observation’s duality, on urbanism and city forms with the delicacy of fine painting and firm forms. In 2017, after a withdrawal period from the art market, only interrupted by the exhibition at gallery Pedro Oliveira in 2012, the artist appears again in the… Continue reading