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THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

João Fonte Santa

2025-04-10
2025-07-03
Curatorship: Lúcia Saldanha e Rui Afonso Santos
With an extremely relevant body of work in painting, drawing and illustration, João Fonte Santa analyses and dissects the heavy legacy of European colonialism, particularly in the case of Portugal.
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ALDEBARAN FALLEN TO THE GROUND

2025-03-13
2025-06-22
Aldebaran Fallen to the Ground is a series of shaped paintings, with irregular, organic contours. The intensity and incidence of light intrude on the viewing of those (most of them) faces, painted in oil pastels.
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Impressões Digitais. MNAC Collection

2024-12-12
2026-12-30
Curatorship: Ana Guimarães, Emília Ferreira, Maria de Aires Silveira e Tiago Beirão Veiga
Consisting of founding works of contemporary Portuguese art historiography, from 1850 to the present day, the MNAC's collection holds several national treasures.
Permanent Exhibition
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Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Museu do Chiado

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1200-444 Lisboa
Tel. +351 213 432 148
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