|THE SWITCH is proud to announce its first Lisbon group exhibition, showcasing 5 European Artists.

Bleu: la couleur du rêve
De l’éternité céleste à la peur d’une âbyssale mélancolie

“ We have had a gut full of Fast Art and Fast food. What we need more of is Slow Art. Art that holds time as a vase holds water. Art that makes you think, and above all, Art that makes you feel. Art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep running in our natures. In a word, Art that is the very opposite of mass media.

You have these two polarities, which started at the beginning of the 20th century. One is to make Art like everything else, and one is to make Art different from everything else, holding its position as a kind of sanctuary, trying to make something spiritually informed and powerful.

Abstract painting often has to do with time. With depicting a place where time no longer implies, closer perhaps to music. It represents a search for harmony and grace. A place of timelessness and to use a word which dropped out of fashion some- time back, of Beauty.

Today we are left with a more modest, perhaps, and equally difficult task for Art to do, and that is, to be Beautiful. To manifest Beauty. People need beauty. There’s a hunger for it.

We seek out zones of silence and contemplation, arenas for free thought and un- regimented feeling. A world away from the forest of Media. We are seeking value, looking for meaning, a place outside of ourselves, which tells us that there’s more to life than our everyday concerns and needs. The hunger for new Art, is as strong as ever. The idea that esthetics experience provides a transcendent understanding is at the very heart of Art. It fulfills a deep human need. Despite the decadence, the confusion, and the brouhaha, the desire to experience it, live with it and learn from it, remains immortal. ”

— Robert Hughes

View exhibition’s full transcript here.

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The Switch is an artist-run gallery born with the vocation to present young talents and emerging artists, with a continuous approach towards promoting collaboration across various creative industries. different kind of art. Born through diverse practices. originating from multiple backgrounds, from the intersection of cultures between contemporary art, fashion, music, urban and subcultural conducts.

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