The CCL – Centro Cultural de Lagos is a multidisciplinary space for the production and presentation of cultural activities, with special emphasis on events in the field of performing arts and visual arts.
The CCL have an auditorium with capacity for about 300 spectators with Italian stage and a temporary exhibition area of 500 m2 distributed in 3 rooms.
In the exhibition area the CCL has a diversified program that covers various topics related to architecture, archeology, history and a strand majority owned by dissemination activities of the national contemporary art, but with some pivotal events of international character, conducted in collaboration with institutions like the Serralves Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Fundation.
Patent from October 28th to December 30th | 10am-6pm (Tuesday to Saturday) Location: Lagos Cultural Center – Exhibition Rooms 2 and 3 Org.: CM Lagos Free entry Opening on October 27th. This photography exhibition appears as part of the defense and appreciation of traditional Xávega Art in Meia Praia. At a national level, and with a certain regularity, it is in Lagos that this art presents itself as the only truly genuine one, as it uses unique coordination and manual strength in almost the entire process. Similar arts that still operate, mainly in the north of the country, use machinery, which distorts sharing, in addition to promoting harmful ecological problems. In a world where speed and individualism prevail, community activities like this are rare, where there is no room for prejudice or any type of distinction. Everyone is welcome – old and new, natives and foreigners, experienced and first-time participants, men and women, united in the pleasure of collaborating in a huge collective effort, even without a certain result. Master Zé Bala’s experience, combined with the strength and direction of the winds and currents, the sun and the phase of the moon, will dictate the result of the fishing and, […]
Patent from October 28th to December 30th | 10am-6pm (Tuesday to Saturday) Location: Lagos Cultural Center – Exhibition Room 1 Org.: CM Lagos Free entry Opening on October 27th. “Luís Lemos’ universe presents a mythological journey of emotional moments. Each moment is revealed in a body, a posture, a face. The image of the painting is born from the fusion of these three elements and their unitary synthesis creates the mystical parameter, specific to each work.” Luís Lemos presents a strongly sensual and engaging path and aesthetics around the human body. His painting assumes a connection to “wild neo-expressionism” and “bad-painting”, an American figurative painting trend from the 1970s, classified by critic and curator Marcia Tucker. With works produced from 1983 to the present and jumping from one aesthetic line to another, Luís Lemos paints large patches with primary paints in which color becomes the structuring form of balance in each painting, assuming with coherence and audacity an uncomplex, irreverent language. and even some disregard for the canons of good taste, in which the deformation of the figure is intentional and not a technical incompetence on the part of the artist. Curated by Alexandra Silvano, this exhibition aims to promote […]