Horizons in Nature - a group exhibition

Inspired by the nature that surrounds us in the archipelago of Madeira, RESTOCK has invited a variety of local artists to participate in an exhibition based on this theme and, thus, title for the exhibition. The artists exhibiting in the exhibition are: David Fransisco Helena Jardim Jose Zyberchema Karen Bradtke Lize-Mari de Abreu Luis Filipe Vasconcelos Miguel Ângelo Martins Miguel Leitão Jardim The horizon is the apparent line where Earth’s surface and the sky seem to meet, most obvious over the sea or a flat plain. [Wikipedia] There are true/geographic horizons, visible horizons, and artistic/photographic horizon lines. There are also symbolic horizons where the horizon symbolises calm, reflection, openness, etc. and metaphors for the future, new beginnings, etc. Also one could contemplate representing concepts of emptiness and negative space as in Anish Kapoor’s void sculptural works.

Secrets Kept in Daylight by Lize-Mari De Abreu Opening on 20 March at 6p.m.

Paintings by Oliver Menn in Loja 5

 

Pascal Errante's "Atmosferas" exhibition in Loja 11

 

Reshape Ceramics at RESTOCK

October 2023

 Just to let you know, new pieces have arrived. Hurray before they are gone!!

 

 

 

Pascal Errante at City Hall **** If you are interested in buying contact RESTOCK!

Recent Works by Carla Cabral

 

New Items in the Gallery

 Karla Vieira Earrings

Luis de Jesus Clay Houses

Barra Cru Fish and Whale Magnets

Pascal Errante Paintings 

New items in the gallery!

Claudia Teixiera Jewellry

Marcela Campo papiermache hearts and coffee filter flowers

Eva Askulv original watercolour paintings of Sailing Around the World

Marca da Agua handembroidered pins

Monica Smit handpainted stone magnets

 

"The Chair, where someone used to be"

“The Chair, where someone used to be”

 

a group exhibition by

Karen Bradtke, André Moniz Vieira, Vulindlela Nyoni and Siphiwe Cele

Constructing a chair is a very complicated process and involves solving ergonomic, technical and structural issues.

 

A chair allows a body to rest and depending on the configuration of the chairs, encourages conversation between occupants or to discourage conversation only to be spoken to.

 

A chair is also a metaphor about human abilities and limitations. Chairs represent people. They represent the presence and the absence of being. They represent relationships.

Up until March 2020 there were things and people that were part of our daily landscape. Suddenly they disappeared. Viewing the streets with closed shops, empty parks, having weekends without gathering with family, birthday parties without friends, we missed the people we used to have, the place where we used to be. Even though technology helps to connect people and to communicate with close ones, we also live with people who do not appear on computer screens. With this pandemic we all experienced our existence, presence and absence.

"A Cadeira" onde alguém costumava estar...   

A construção de uma cadeira é um processo muito complicado e envolve a resolução de questões ergonómicas, técnicas e estruturais.  

Uma cadeira permite que um corpo descanse e dependendo da configuração das cadeiras, encoraja a conversa entre ocupantes ou desencoraja a conversa apenas para ser falada.   

Uma cadeira é também uma metáfora sobre as habilidades e limitações humanas. A cadeira serve para ser sentada, oferecendo-lhe o descanso, para comer, ler, falar, ou esperar. Quando alguém se senta na cadeira, torna-se um objeto simples. Quando a cadeira não está ocupada... começam a "falar" umas com as outras. 

 

Representam pessoas. Representam a presença e a ausência de um ser. Representam relacionamentos. Até março de 2020 haviam coisas e pessoas que faziam parte da paisagem diária. De repente desapareceram. Vendo as ruas com lojas fechadas, parques vazios, fins de semana sem reunir com a família, festas de aniversário sem amigos, sentimos falta das pessoas que tínhamos, o lugar onde costumávamos estar. Embora a tecnologia nos ajude a conectar e a comunicar com as pessoas mais próximas, também vivemos com pessoas que não aparecem nos ecrãs dos computadores. Com esta pandemia todos nós experimentamos a nossa existência, presença e ausência.

Fantasmagoria by Hanamaro Chaki

Please view the exhibition here: https://hanamaro.com/exhibitions/fantasmagoria/

If you are interested purchasing some of the works,

please contact us at restockfunchal@gmail.com

Desse Lugar | From That Place - Micas Fernandes Open until 17 June 2020

 Desse Lugar                        

                                         

Exposição a Solo – Micas Fernandes

Oberta ate 17 de junho 2020

Desse lugar mais próximo de um estado de alma, de um gesto que quer dizer imensas coisas. É a verdade em cada um de nós, a nossa verdade.

Micas Fernandes é fotógrafa de artes performativas por paixão. Começou a fotografar desde muito nova e mais tarde já nos anos 90 estudou fotografia na 

Universidade de Central England em Birmingham.

Trabalhou durante vários anos num estúdio de fotografia publicitária embora tenha sempre continuado na sua fotografia autoral.

Participou em várias exposições na Inglaterra e na Madeira.

From That Place

A Solo Exhibition by Micas Fernandes

Open until 17 June 2020

That place closer to the state of our soul, of a gesture that can mean a multitude of things. It’s the truth inside each and everyone of us, our own truth.

Micas Fernandes is a performing arts photographer by passion. She has started photographing at a very young age and in the nineties studied photography at the University of Central England in Birmingham.

She worked in a studio as an advertising photographer for several years, but always continuing to do her own conceptual photography work.

She participated in various exhibitions in England and also in Madeira.


Here is a magazine of the exhibition: https://issuu.com/micasfernandes/docs/micasfernandesexhibition?fbclid=IwAR3Y_qGESyA32avrf4hrxFHiUnvTpmzlada8-9tJ38juf4V8xI-OUJ4Hg1E

3 x 3 - a solo exhibition by Laura Andrade 27 Dec - 4 March 2020

"O Teatro Deste Lugar Não Tem Chão" by Carla Cabral 25 October - 24 December 2019

 

25 October - 24 December 2019 

"O Zodíaco" - Magda Nunes 17 julho - 13 setembro 2019

"O Zodíaco"

"Balança" (Libra)

17 julho - 17 agosto 2019

Magda Nunes apresenta a sua obra, uma recriação das figuras que identificam os signos do zodíaco. A composição gráfica tem como inspiração o bordado Madeira, típico da ilha, onde se enfatiza as suas formas e texturas recorrendo aos elementos vegetais e florais, específicos das peças artesanais, que possuem uma história e tradição. São representados vários pontos do bordado, evidenciando-se os caseados que contornam os corpos e preenchem os fundos. Este trabalho homenageia uma das heranças do povo Madeirense, o bordado Madeira e explora a técnica da pirografia.

 

I I I by Miguel Leitão Jardim

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“The conscience is the last phase of the evolution of the organic system, by consequence, it is also what is less finished and less strong in this system.” [1]

The 3, say the Chinese, is a perfect number, the expression of totality, of conclusion: nothing can be added to it. “The fundamental reason of this ternary universal phenomena must be undoubtly searched within a metaphisic of the composed and contingent being, in a global vision of unity-complexity of all beings in nature, and that is summarized in the three phases of existence: birth, growth, death.” [2] This phenomena also derives from the mathematical representation of the concept of the reproduction of species: 1 + 1 = 3.

Three series of nine photographs each are presented, around the question of individual conscience:

1. From the lights of which life is made of and the objects that they lit in a certain way. What are they? Illusions? Revelations? Access doors to enlightenment?

2. The body is finite. Is there an equal path to conscience? Does it access to enlightenment ou just simply renews itself?

3. The conscience contemplates the ideas, as thought by Plato, returns to its essence, melting with the most infinate particles of the Universe? And how does one photograph conscience?

Miguel Leitão Jardim, 2018.

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[1]

Friedrich Nietzsche in “The Gay Science”, 1996, p. 47, Guimarães Editors.

[2]

in “Dictionary of the Symbols”, J. Chevalier and A. Gheerbrant, 1997, pp. 654-657, ed. Reader’s Circle.

Series II

1 Feburary - 28 March 2019