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Maja Bajevic in Madrid

The Crystal Palace of Madrid´s Retiro Park exposes until October 3rd the solo exhibition of the conceptual Bosnian artist Maja Bajevic. The installation titled continue was elaborated by the artist for the exhibition, and is the first time Bajevic exposes in Spain. At “Continue”  Bajevic builds a scaffold, a lonely podium where there is no statue. On top of that structure there are five screens that continuously play a series of videos with a play called Wende, a German word that means “turn” and refers to events that occurred with the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the consequent fall of real socialism. In the video you see people walking, suddenly they stop and turn around. Along with this, machines that produce steam symbolize the era of the Industrial Revolution. During the night slogans are projected on moving steam visiting  a century of political life and changes. Vocal solo songs are performed by professional singers and apprentices that  can be heard from an installation by the artist. This conceptual work alludes to the fragmented memory of a tumultuous century, where two civil wars, revolutions and holocausts transformed the internal and external boundaries of humanity, creating dramatic twists and just as the name of the expo insinuates: it will Continue In her recurring themes, movement and change, marks her identity derived from personal experiences in the political conflict that led to war and ended former Yugoslavia. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1967 she saw  the stability  of  her the world brake into pieces, although during the war in Yugoslavia, she lived in Paris. This reason leads Bajevic to transcribe in...

Restaurant Zina Food & Wine Lisbon

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Zaafran Restaurant Lisbon

Restaurant with modern decoration that serves dishes with a mix of Oriental and African cuisine.

Aura Restaurant Lisbon

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Restaurante Al Café Lisbon

Portuguese cuisine with Arabic influence in a relaxed atmosphere, decorated in Oriental style. They have Argilé or shishas to smoke with strawberry and lemon flavour

Restaurant Café de Paris Lisbon

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Café do Rio Lisbon

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Summer Cinema at the Barcelona Verdi

In his strange book The Image Announcement, writer from Samoa Albert Hanover has an emotional recollection, full of depth of melancholy, of the summers of his childhood and adolescence. Due to the somewhat nomadic quality of his life during these years, his parents with odd, mysterious professions, Hanover liked nothing more than to stay in the city for the summer. He loved the way the streets were taken over by the pulse, respiration and rhythm of the sleepy, urban summer months – especially in cities like Madrid (which in august literally becomes a ghost town), where he lived for a few years; cities of unbearable heat. As he felt so at home in sky high temperatures – considering himself to be a naturally lazy person, he felt that the soporific effect that the heat had on most people made them more like him – the summer months brought him an indescribable, almost erotic pleasure, full of sensation, which was only confirmed to him many years later (though, how many years is many?) by the statistic that the most extraordinary things tend to happen in excessive heat. Hanover felt he wanted to live for exceptions; for the breaks and the flaws. In those summers, one of his favourite pastimes was to go to the cinema in the afternoon, scrupulously avoiding the new releases, which were out of bounds during this period of dog days. He frequented, aged 11 or 12, the back to back screenings, and the cinema clubs which were so popular at the time, in search of double shows of B-movies, sci-fi, horror, classic comedy, Marx bros and...