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18 September - 11 October 2003, galeria zdb, Lisbon
30
October – 22 November 2003, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Curated
by: Natxo Checa, Tobi Maier, Deirdre McKenna
veneer/ folheado
is an art and exchange project between Belfast and Lisbon. It has been
organised by Dosensos
art projects, London, zdb
gallery, Lisbon and Catalyst Arts, Belfast. veneer/ folheado
is a multidisciplinary exchange project comprising of exhibition, public
art, music events, films, talks and football.
Through
a collaborative project involving art practitioners from Portugal and
Ireland, veneer/folheado attempts to create a bi-national dialogue that
supersedes mass-media-produced misconceptions and transcultural fears.
The project veneer/ folheado gives emerging artists alongside established
artists the opportunity to exhibit in a new environment with different
audiences. The first part of veneer/ folheado’s exhibition commences
in Lisbon on the 18th September ’03 and is housed in zdb gallery.
It presents works by contemporary Northern Irish artists both within the
gallery and site specifically. On the 30th October ’03, the second
part of the exhibition opened at Catalyst Arts, Belfast, showing contemporary
Portuguese art.
run
till 22. nOvember 2003.
A
bilingual catalogue and 7” vinyl accompanied this exhibition.
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