FIRST IMPRESSIONS – Workshops Within the scope of the exhibition FIRST IMPRESSIONS, zet gallery is promoting a programme of education and cultural mediation by holding visual arts workshops with the Ukrainian artists featured in the exhibition. The workshops are free of charge and take place at zet gallery on Saturday mornings, from 10 am to… Continue reading
FIRST IMPRESSIONS – Workshops
Evgenia Antonova – Testimony
EVGENIA ANTONOVA TESTIMONY zet gallery has five artists from Ukraine in artistic residency for a year. On June 30th, dstgroup received the High Commissioner for Migrations, Sónia Pereira, in a session in which Evgenia Antonova was invited to share her testimony about the experience in Portugal and the artist residency at zet gallery. Read… Continue reading
We shall go with them into the Future
We shall go with them into the Future “I said, ‘I wonder what it means’, not ‘Tell me what it means.” New Yorker Cartoons, cartoon caption by Will McPhail, 2017 1. Adriana Oliveira 2. Alberto Rodrigues Marques 3. Bruno Rodrigues Martins 4. Daniela Pinheiro 5. Diogo Nogueira 6. Inês Nêves 7. João Campolargo Teixeira 8…. Continue reading
The grace of metaphysics
The grace of metaphysics Valter Hugo Mãe Art is a pure manifestation of metaphysics, an essential dimension that alludes to what is insinuated in the matter, but it is above all longing for spirit, some kind of simulation of the soul to give us the true size of existence and possible transcendence. I begin by… Continue reading
A OUTRA MÁQUINA DE FAZER ESPANHÓIS (the other machine for making spaniards)
A OUTRA MÁQUINA DE FAZER ESPANHÓIS (the other machine for making spaniards) solo exhibition of Juan Domingues (VE, 1981) from the novel by Valter Hugo Mãe (AO, 1971) January 29 to April 16, 2022, zet gallery, Braga The first photograph that Juan Domingues (VE, 1981) sent me of works that are part of the… Continue reading
ACTUM
ACTUM The “ACTUM – Open Call for Artistic Projects” initiative aims to support artists from the city of Braga, during a time when it is imperative to emphasise culture and promote artistic creation. The 25 artists chosen for this second edition come from different areas, with various creative processes, from painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video,… Continue reading
AMOR EM TEMPOS DE CÓLERA
AMOR EM TEMPOS DE CÓLERA AMOR EM TEMPOS DE CÓLERA (love in times of cholera) is the name of the second exhibition resulting from ‘ACTUM – Open Call for Artistic Projects, a support measure for artistic creation and fruition for artists and cultural agents from Braga, which appeared in the middle of the pandemic, in… Continue reading
ANA MONTEIRO: Layers of the Self
ANA MONTEIRO: Layers of the Self The figurative style and the self-portrait are two of the great particularities that characterise the work of Ana Monteiro (PT, 1990), who justifies the use of these properties due to the ease of the emotional connection with her works, appealing to the capacity of communication, understanding and transformation. Through… Continue reading
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS by Helena Mendes Pereira These experiments were based on the thesis that the structure of the labyrinth was always the same and that, in more general terms and by analogy, from the moment the individual had learned what to do in his life, he would have been able… Continue reading
A Mar (The Sea) by André Rangel
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS A Mar (The Sea) by André Rangel Hav, Kai, More, Meer, Mer, Sea, Deniz, Mare, Mope, Morze, Zee, Meri, Farraige, Tenger, Jūra, Mier, Maro, Meri, Morie, Moře, Dagat, Môr, Laut, Deti, Sami, Mare, Segara, Teku. Sea, the prima mater. Sea is a masculine word in Portuguese, but in… Continue reading