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HOLBEIN SYNDROME
GALERIA FRANCISCO FINO
24-01-2025 > 08-03-2025
It is not uncommon in Art History to find artistic decisions that immortalize the gesture of the creator, often transcending the original context of the work. In 1533, Hans Holbein (1497/8-1543) completed the famous painting The Ambassadors, a work that still intrigues its audience today. Holbein subverts the classical rules of painting by introducing, into a composition that exalts knowledge and science in a sober and academic universe, an unusual symbol that disturbs it. The vanitas, occupying a large area of the lower part of the canvas, evokes the ephemerality of life and the inevitability of death, and instigates a premonition—a reminder of the transience of reality, even for those who master earthly knowledge, as is the case with the portrayed subjects.

JARRA HUMANA
MUSEU DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA DE ELVAS (ELVAS)
28-06-2024 > 31-12-2024
“Jarra Humana” apresenta um conjunto muito representativo de obras adquiridas recentemente no âmbito do programa anual de aquisição de arte contemporânea do Estado, que serão exibidas pela primeira vez ao público. Refletindo sobre a relação de proximidade e tensão entre o corpo e os objetos, a proposta curatorial procura mostrar as divergências e convergências na construção de uma fluidez entre o humano e as coisas, um corpo híbrido, humano-coisa.

HIGHLY CONFUSING TIMES
ARBAG (LISBOA)
18-04-2024 > 18-05-2024
The collective show HIGHLY CONFUSING TIMES is an ode to the decadent, the bizarre, the incongruent; to the forgotten icons of our generation, all brought together in a single singular spot. Here, we want time to stop, speculation to flourish, and otherworldly dimensions to come alive. Or simply consider it as an invitation to contemplate the course of current events: breathing in and out is particularly important in an era where oversimplification prevails and the madness of the world is forgotten.