Moshe Kupferman e a fractura no tempo   ‘Sou um pintor que faz o seu trabalho e não escolhe os seus temas. Não tenho temas. Há o tempo, o que acontece no tempo e o que nos acontece no tempo tem de estar em tudo.’  Moshe Kupferman, 1995   A série de pinturas ‘A […]

  O verdadeiro sentido do habitar – a cidade como projeto de vida coletiva, segundo Manuel Graça Dias.   ‘Se uma cidade é o artefacto humano que mais nos pode surpreender (não só pela sua construção física, pelos segredos sempre redescobertos, pelos esconderijos que lentamente se amontoam, pela glória da luz subitamente amanhecendo tudo, mas […]

  Acerca do cubismo de Picasso, segundo Gertrude Stein.   ‘So when the contemporaries were forced by the war to recognise cubism, cubism as it had been created by Picasso who saw a reality that was not the vision of the nineteenth century, which was not a thing seen but felt, which was a thing […]

  A pintura de Rose Wylie – uma maneira particular de ver.   ‘The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe (…) We only see what you look at. To look is an act of choice.’, John Berger   Para a pintora Rose Wylie (1934), olhar é sempre […]

  ‘Desert Moon’ de Lee Krasner.   ‘Painting is not separated from life. It is one. It is like asking – do I want to live? My answer is yes – and so I paint.’, Lee Krasner   A pintura ‘Desert Moon’ (1955) de Lee Krasner (1908-1984) é pura vida.   ‘I like a canvas […]

  “ÆOLUS” de Gillian Ayres   ‘I don’t see why you shouldn’t be filling yourself up, making yourself happy. Enjoying yourself. Feasting on beauty. I want an art that’s going to make me feel heady, in a high-flown way. I love the idea. I’d use the word spiritual. I’m not frightened of all that.’ Gillian […]

  O verdadeiro sentido do habitar – Les Étoiles d’Ivry, de Jean Renaudie e Renée Gailhoustet   ‘Architecture is the physical form which envelops human lives in all the complexity of their relations with their environment.’, Jean Renaudie, 1968   A urbanização de Les Étoiles em Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), dos arquitetos Jean Renaudie (1925-1981) e Renée […]

  Neutelings Riedijk e as iconografias volumétricas.   ‘Laziness, one of the seven cardinal sins, is one of an architect’s most useful characteristics. The combination of diligence and ambition is highly dangerous; the combination of laziness and ambition ensures a pleasing balance, which often leads to happy results because compensating for laziness requires the application […]

  Manuel Graça Dias e Egas José Vieira – o elogio à vida e o fascínio pela descoberta.   ‘Nós queremos ser todos iguais perante a lei, temos essa vontade e construímos edifícios organizativos que o garantam. A democracia é, onde conseguimos chegar, no mundo ocidental, no sentido de garantir a todos igualdade – o […]

  Phyllida Barlow e o ‘Objeto para uma poltrona’.   ‘The urgency to get something done is very important in my work. I make work very quickly. I then need ages to understand what I’ve done, and that is an odd paradox (…) You’ve put everything into the work, and you look at the thing […]