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António Gonçalves

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This book by António Gonçalves (b. 1975) emerges from the appropriation of a pre-existing lined notebook. Subverting the rigid order of the lines, António populates the pages with a dense dialogue between spontaneous writing and visceral drawing. The artist intervenes in the paper’s anatomy through precise cut-outs and insets that create unexpected windows between pages. These layers allow fragments of sketches or text to bleed into one another. By treating the book as a three-dimensional territory rather than a flat surface, Gonçalves turns the act of flipping a page into a tactile discovery.

ENbook

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The work of Emmanuel Nassar is essentially comprised of painting and the amalgam of different substrates, which include canvas, wood, glass and metal plates, among others. The artist appropriates signs and techniques that range from folk culture to various contemporary art trends, some concretism – a reference made evident through a search for forms and a scientism between them and their content – and, above all, pop art, the leitmotif of his artistic imagination. Nassar evokes notions of a primitivism and an industrial precariousness that go back to his roots in the North of Brazil, which he at once laments and praises scathingly. For the writer and curator Ligia Canongia, his work is a Brazilian response to the principles established by pop, thoughtfully considered and adjusted to the limits of our repertoire.

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Artur Barrio was born in 1945 in Porto, Portugal. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Artur Barrio is an extreme example of the development of art that took place during his early career. It was a time when barriers within art were being tested and pushed to the breaking point. Barrio expressed his understanding of these artistic forces in his work. We can see the imprint of his time on his work in the content, the materials, and the processes he employs in his work. He makes strong anti-art establishment statements showing a kinship with the Dada artists. He also displays his understanding the Fluxus ideas about flow, process and material usage. These influences combined during the late sixties when the counterculture was at its height. His process, his vision and his materials all meld in a form of Situationist art where his pieces become more than installations but also a part of the reality in which they exist.

Atlas

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Julião Sarmento (1948 – 2021) was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and lived and worked in Estoril, Portugal. He studied painting and architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He was an interdisciplinary artist and throughout his career, Sarmento has worked in a wide range of media: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film, video, performance, sound and installation. He also developed several significant site-specific projects. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world over the past five decades. 

Julião Sarmento represented Portugal at the 46th Venice Biennale (1997). He was included in Documenta 7 (1982) and Documenta 8 (1987), the Venice Biennale (1980 and 2001), and the São Paulo Biennale in 2002. His work is represented in many public and private collections in North and South America, Europe and Japan.

Meu caderno-livro de geografia do Brasil

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Anna Bella Geiger was born in 1933 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she works and lives. Since the 1950s, Anna Bella Geiger has integrated maps and elements of natural history into much of her videos, collages, paintings, sculptures, and prints. In such works, she reconsiders notions of territory and identity, particularly in her native Brazil. Geiger’s 2018 installation for Rio de Janeiro’s Solar dos Abacaxis, for example, resembled a series of museum dioramas of pyramids, Babylonian gardens, and an Israeli mikvah (a ritual bath). Geiger has made distorted maps of the globe and various countries from embroidery, wax-filled filing cabinets, and copper plate engravings. Such work questions the geographical structures and systems that we take for granted.

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Vera Mota presents a minimalist folder housing four distinct booklets, where the primary language is drawing. Each booklet acts as an independent yet interconnected chapter of her graphic exploration.

Sobral Centeno

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Sobral Centeno born in 1948 in Porto, Portugal. Lives and works in Porto, Portugal. His work is deeply connected with the recent history of the world, and the consequences of the political and cultural tensions. Centeno is a storyteller, his unique, and sometimes irreverent, way to playfully confront the essence of reality results in a deep reflection on memory, freedom, cultural identity and life discoveries.

His paintings are vivid and energetic confronting a collective memory with the artist unique gestures absorbing pop-culture in its most expressive way. Symbolic objects, believes, and rituals stand among the recurrent motifs of Centeno’s often organized in compositions in which different civilizations and ideologies deliriously collide to capture the ironies of our contemporary society.

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The work of Albuquerque Mendes, a central figure in Portuguese contemporary art, often extends beyond the canvas, materializing in publications that act as extensions of his artistic rituals. His publications reflect a seamless blend of visual languages-where expressive painting and chaotic collage coexist. This experience is not merely one of observation, but of holding a tactile extension of the artist’s own creative universe.