Melancholy: The Enigma of Kiefer and Dürer

Melancholy and stagnation often go hand in hand, however, that does not mean they are the end of it all. Some people are able to transform this paralyzing feeling into a driving force. Artists who lived in periods as far apart as Dürer and Kiefer did can give us clues on how to do this [+]

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Nature Is Art’s Subject

I am an expert in landscape painting. This year, I will be launching Nicolas Poussin: Ideia da paisagem [Nicolas Poussin: Landscape Idea], a book that emerged from the PhD thesis I defended more than twenty years ago. After so long, I finally decided to offer a workshop on the subject. I present you Arte e natureza [Art & Nature] [+]

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New Year, New Art

If blogging is a literary genre, this is a retrospective genre. A blog author needs not to make a yearly summary: Whatever has been written is there as memory of the past and could remain current. [+]

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Cildo Meireles and the Boogey Man

Open at Sesc Pompeia until February 2, 2020, Entrevendo [something like “Glimpsing”] is Cildo Meireles’s first anthological exhibition in many years. How wonderful it is to find so much good stuff in the same place! Cildo’s works are good for the body, the soul, and the mind. You can visit with no concern: the boogey man living there doesn’t swallow people. [+]

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