250 thousand euros for the head of Mário Soares
Alberto Gonçalves comments on municipal spending on 'public art', following the inauguration in Amadora of a work by Vhils commemorating Mário Soares.

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Alberto Gonçalves comments on municipal spending on 'public art', following the inauguration in Amadora of a work by Vhils commemorating Mário Soares.

Visual artist Alexandre Farto, known as Vhils, presents the tribute piece to the former President of the Republic, Mário Soares, at Parque da Liberdade in Amadora.

The 25th of April celebrations in Amadora were marked by the inauguration of a memorial dedicated to Mário Soares. A work by Vhils in Liberdade Park.

A concrete sculpture of Mário Soares' face, signed by Vhils, was unveiled today in Amadora, with the daughter of the former President of the Republic asking that people fight so that “freedom continues” and the memory does not fade.
Mário Soares' daughter praised Vhils' work, a concrete sculpture that “takes the form of a large-scale diorama.”

Isabel Soares, daughter of Mário Soares, praised the work, a concrete sculpture that “takes the form of a large-scale diorama” and is about five metres long and 2.5 metres high.

Quarteira parish council has launched a competition for an artistic mural at the town’s new dog park, offering a top prize of €3,000. The initiative is being organised in partnership The post Quarteira launches contest for mural at new dog park appeared first on Portugal Resident.

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Asks whether public art is primarily for tourists and outlines ways to engage local communities so public artworks contribute to more liveable, inclusive and people-centred urban spaces.
The memorial 'Windows of Freedom', a public art intervention by artist Irene Buarque evoking the life and work of architect Nuno Teotónio Pereira (1922–2016), will be inaugurated on Friday in Lisbon, Galeria Ratton announced today.

The work will be installed beside the Caxias prison and will be an “artistic and ethical gesture evoking resistance and the struggle for freedom,” the municipality says.

A tile panel by visual artist Graça Morais will be presented on Thursday at Palácio Anjos in Algés.

Francisco Simões was the sculptor of the statues at Parque dos Poetas in Oeiras, and the municipal council will honour him by naming an avenue in the municipality after him.

He was the creator of the work 'Women of Lisbon' and of the sculptures depicting figures of Portuguese poetry in the Jardim dos Poetas in Oeiras. He was 80 years old.

He was the creator of the work “Mulheres de Lisboa” and the busts of Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes at Lisbon Metro stations. He was 80.

The presidential candidate inaugurated the Monument to the Portuguese Forest — a real 11-metre eucalyptus tree planted upside down. He later broke a guitar that was apparently signed by Jimi Hendrix.

Until the end of the month, the exhibition 'Lourdes Castro: existe luz na sombra' brings to the Azores a large collection of works and documents by the Madeiran artist, which will later be installed in public spaces on São Miguel.

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Xico Lucena, a sculptor of the land, evokes Nature by carving a chestnut leaf to be admired on a hillside along the road to Sernancelhe.
