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An ordinary thing looks more "alive" and more "real" in an artistic context, being it a gallery, a museum or the collectors' walls, than in reality itself. Robin Rhode (1976, Cape Town, South Africa) shows five animations, at White Cube Hoxton Square, until July 2011, that when confronted with that ordinary thing - chair designs of Dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrut Rietveld - in reality we immediately anticipate its death: as when it is killed (Piano Chair, digital animation 3'50'', 2011), tossed in the air and broken (Military Chair, digital animation 1'20'', 2011), or kiked and thrown away (Kinderstoel, two-channel digital animation 2'20'', 2011). «A finite life expectancy is, in fact, the definition of ordinary life», and while changing the life expectancy of an ordinary thing Robin Rhode changes everything. Without changing anything. Rhode's through Variants mirrors this nonperceptible diference in the life expectancy of an item - a chair.

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Não é que não goste de poesia, pelo contrário! pois, nas palavras de Hölderlin, «O que permanece, é fundado pelos Poetas». Na realidade sou e sempre foi mais pragmático em relação às coisas da vida. No entanto, quando o assunto é a Fotografia é óbvio que tenho de deixar a poética desabrochar pois é um mundo em si mesmo. Sugestionado por uma realidade captada por Mårten Lange (1984, Mölndal, Sweden), a exposição de nove imagens (laser prints de múltiplas proporções) no The Mews Project Space (Londres), até ao dia 2 de Julho, sob o título A Language in Itself, transporta-nos e permite-nos absorver a existência de modos idiossincráticos sobre a noção da originalidade, autenticidade e presença individual, por um lado, e questionar, por outro, o aliciamento, a democratização e a saturação visual provocada pelo apogeu da ligação virtual essencial para o discurso da era digital.

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Mafalda Santos
The Kappa Effect

from June 8 to September 17 at Caroline Pagès Gallery

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Next coming, 1st, 2nd and 3rd of July will start the workshops of artistic creation “Limited Situation” by duo artists Los Carpinteros coinciding with the opening of the NMAC Foundation’s 10th anniversary.

“Limited Situation” is part of the NMAC Foundation’s objectives of establishing a platform of encounter, exchange of ideas and new methodologies of work with the aim to support young emerging artists.

The participants during these three days will have the opportunity of expressing, experiencing, and work on the creation of an idea or an artistic project within the inspiring natural surrounding of NMAC Foundation, under the guidance and surveillance of the acclaimed international duo Cuban artists. This opportunity will also allow participants to know more about the artists and their artistic recent research.

The main idea of this workshop is to encourage the creation of an object, an action or an idea with a departure point of a limited situation. “We have the intention that the participants will research in the personal history and find a “Limited situation” that will be inspiring enough to produce a work of art. Also we encourage of creating an imaginary limited situation and work on a proposal through it.”

It is the second time that Los Carpinteros guide this workshop. In the first occasion the San Francisco Art Institute in the US hosted it. “We remarked that this kind of workshops generated an impulse creating numerous artistic possibilities and debates, and it is why we wanted to work with this same premises in the Spanish context and particularly at NMAC Foundation.” Los Carpinteros.

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The artistic group Los Carpinteros, comprised of Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés (Cuba, 1971) and Dagoberto Rondríguez Sánchez (Cuba, 1969) have enriched and created a body of fine art that has made it in an international leader on the Cuban art scene since the ‘90’s.

The artists graduated from the superior Art Institute of Havana, and are primarily interested in exploring traditional notions of architecture, design, space and object – function, among others with wit and sense of humour.

The majority of their work is comprised of sculptures, installations and watercolours.

Their work is part of major museum collections: Centre George Pompidou, Paris, MoMA in New York, MEIAC in Badajoz, Spain, the Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid, the Tate Modern London, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo of México City.

They are currently living between Madrid and La Havana.

Workshop Program

FRIDAY July 1st:
20:30h. Municipal Theater of Vejer de la Frontera
Welcome and presentation of the course
21:00h.
Introduction to Los Carpinteros work
22h – 23h.
Cocktail

SATURDAY, July 2nd
10:30h. NMAC Foundation
Workshop
14:00h.
Lunch Break and free time
17:00h – 19h30.
Workshop
19:30h. – 22: 30h. NMAC Foundation
Guided visit of NMAC collection by director Jimena Blazquez

SUNDAY, July 3rd
10:30h. NMAC Foundation
Workshop
14:00 h.
Lunch break and free time
17:00h – 20h.
End of the workshop and public presentation of the works

newsfromlisbon201105

Uma escultura em madeira, várias construções em papel e três instalações site-specific são os meios em torno dos quais as ideias de processo e experimentação se desenrolam na galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporânea (Lisboa). A exposição Remanescente, um conjunto de trabalhos multidisciplinares concebidos por Rui Horta Pereira (1975, Évora), sugestiona para o potencial dos projectos ao desarquivar através do seu processo de constituição de hipóteses universais. Obras abstractas que ao reportar para o excedente indiciam para uma reflexão mais atenta e profunda sobre os limites materiais do objecto, nomeadamente ao questionar o significado e alcance da escultura.