Arvores - group exhibition ends on the 6th June

a  group exhibition

in Loja 11

 

Artists participating:

Carla Cabral
Caroline Fernandes
Hanamaro Chaki
Helena Jardim
Jelka Barras
Karen Bradtke
Maria Ângela Franco
Miguel Leitão Jardim
Pascal Errante
Samuel Santos

LAvAmAr [Lava+Sea+Air+To Love] and mEmOriA by Miguel Leitão Jardim

 

LAvAmAr  

Lava+Sea+Air+To Love

O continente desaparecido | The missing continent

Of the finitude of the land and the black rocks; on those gaps I imagine the missing continent and the cities of men, where new horizons are reached through creativity.
From the gaps of the black rock, I see the History behind me and Art in the future.

The series of 10 photographs is about the gaps – represented by the black emptiness of the basaltic rocks – that life in a small island brings to those who aspire knowledge, the kind you only reach through travel and contact with other human societies.

So felt some people born in the island, but to whom the islander condition was never enough. People like António Aragão, born in Saint Vincent, in 1921, who was a man of rich creativity, restless, controversial, nonconformist, even sometimes eccentric, and that left his personal and indelible presence wherever he went. It was hard not to notice him when he was at work, whether in the research of history and ethnography, or when he sculpted, painted or wrote. Painter, sculptor, historian, researcher, writer and poet. As an artist, he participated in numerous activities, projects, interventions, exhibits, in several corners of the World. The island wasn't enough for him, but he returned to it. And filled many gaps.

 

(Inspirado por / Inspired by António Aragão).#  

Miguel Leitão Jardim, Funchal, 2022.

# https://www.aragao.org 

 

 

 

mEmOriA / mEmOrY 

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The latin word “memoria” means “the one that remembers”. As everything else, memory is not perfect. A certain event witnessed by several people will have as many versions as the people that witnessed it. Because we tend to forget the details and to retain from the experience only what each one of us considered to be essential. And each one of us considers different things as more important. Long term memory is stored in a sporadic way: not being possible to store all information, elements like color, sound, smell, image, work as associative elements that occur to the spirit as a result of lived experiences. For these reasons, this project is shown with different formats.

The 10 photograph series was built with familiar locations of my childhood and youth, since 1968, when I was born and 1986, when I went to study in Lisbon, using only those associative elements that endure in the memory – like the red stonework, the Portuguese sidewalk and others – with all the gaps in between.

Miguel Leitão Jardim, Funchal, 2022.

 

Entrar Na Água | Go Into The Water - Uma exposição coletiva 3 outobro 2020 - 14 janeiro 2021

 

 

Life in Madeira is tied to the sea. Everything we do affects the ocean and the ocean affects us.  We love living on this island and the last few months have demonstrated a fact we normally discount, which is a feeling of loneliness and disconnectedness. On the one hand, we are happy about that and we feel lucky to feel safe. On the other hand, there is a sense of wariness and staleness in our lives.

 

 

An island in the ocean is a wonderful place to live as long as you are knowingly connected to the Mainland. During the COVID-19 virus lock down we all had a lot of time to think about this disconnection, both to the land and water, but also within ourselves.

 

The theme, loosely based on the word ‘pool’, congers up the idea of a place where water gathers. From baths to swimming pools to rock pools to the ultimate: the ocean itself. All these bodies of water evoke in us a feeling, whether it is a sense of calm, an excitement to jump in, the wonderment of the aquatic world to a sense of fear. This says as much about water as it does about the person entering it. The artist captures these moments in time then it is the viewer who brings their emotions to the image to ‘complete’ the work.

"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.

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

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

"O Ultimo Jardim" - an exhibition by Jose Zyberchema

"O Ultimo Jardim" - uma exposição de Jose Zyberchema

 

Os cemitérios são o nosso "último jardim"

Espaço de descanso para o corpo temporal ...

Lugar da memória ...

Reflexão da memória ...

Às vezes bem cuidado e outros em abandono ...

A presente exposição é composta por:

Pequenas reproduções dos "jardins" nos cemitérios da ilha da Madeira e da ilha do Porto Santo.

Projeção de imagem de cemitérios

Objeto coletado em um dos cemitérios

Caderno fotografico com imagens dos cemitérios, acompanhado de um elemento floral recolhido em um dos cemitérios

"O Ultimo Jardim" - an exhibition by Jose Zyberchema

The cemeteries are our "last garden"

Space of rest for the temporal body ...

Place of memory ...

Reflection of memory ...

Sometimes well taken care of and others in abandonment ...

The present exhibition is composed of:

Small reproductions of the "gardens" in the cemeteries of the island of Madeira and the island of Porto Santo.

Image projection of cemeteries

Object collected in one of the cemeteries

Caderno fotografico with images of the cemeteries, accompanied by a floral element collected in one of the cemeteries

Até 10 de maio

“Arquipélago [juntos somos mais do que ilhas]”

Continua a exposição "Arquipélago" que reúne trabalhos das fotógrafas Elisabeth Vieira Alvarez, Paula Arinto e Susana Paiva.
Aproveitem para lá passar e ver, ou rever, a mesma :)

uma exposição por Elisabeth Vieira Alvarez, Paula Arinto and Susana Paiva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tVFb9ozoqc&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

Três criadoras com universos singulares, três Olhares pessoais e intransmissíveis. Três ilhas comunicantes, com o forte desejo de traçarem pontes que unam as suas poéticas, lançam como objectivo a construção de um arquipélago único – uma supra-poética do território criativo – pois juntas acreditam ser mais do que ilhas.

“Arquipélago” é, assim, uma exposição que materializa o Olhar enquanto território definido pelas fronteiras da imaginação, um discurso visual que joga com a possível representação do imaginário de cada uma das autoras, em torno do conceito de ilha – entendida como proteiforme, orgânica e sobretudo autónoma. Porque, felizmente, em Arte a criação é sempre muito maior do que os seus criadores.

“Archipelago [together we are more than islands]"

an exhibition by Elisabeth Vieira Alvarez, Paula Arinto and Susana Paiva

Opening on Saturday, 9 December 2017 at 5p.m.

Three authors with singular universes, 3 personal, and not transferable, ways of looking. Three “islands”, with a strong desire to draw bridges that will connect their personal poetics, imagine together a construction of a single archipelago – an overall poetic of their Creative territory – as they believe that together they may be more than islands.

“Archipelago” is an exhibition that essays a way of looking into a territory conceived and drawn with imagination as frontier, a visual discourse that plays with the imaginary of each one of the authors, around the idea of “island”, a constantly changing  and organic island and about all a stand alone territory as in Art creation is always bigger that its creators.