Daniel Blaufuks, author of the Book of Hours in Electra 9, presents the exhibition The days are numbered at MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon.
© Daniel Blaufuks
With 450 works belonging to a visual-textual diary that the artist has been developing since 2018. Using A4 leaves of paper, Blaufuks records the days showing us fragments of his life, instant photographs, collages, notes, cuttings and quotes, highlighting recurrent topics of his oeuvre such as memory and time, both personal and historical, and their representations.
Curated by João Pinharanda, this exhibition brings together works covering the whole of 2023, as well as, selected days from 2018 to 2022 and the first months of 2024. In 2020, the Book of Hours section of Electra 9 included a previously unpublished part of Daniel Blaufuks’s ‘diary’, which he started during the Covid-19 lock-downs between 24 April and 4 May of that year.
The exhibition can be visited until October 7th, 2024.
On this occasion, the book will be published in Portuguese as Os Dias Estão Numerados, by Tinta-da-China, and in English as The Days Are Numbered, by JBE/JKG Books.
The new issue of Electra will be presented at the seventh edition of Drawing Room, the art fair dedicated to contemporary drawing held at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in Lisbon.
Electra is the media partner of the Portuguese Official Representation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2024, whose theme is ‘Foreigners Everywhere’.
Electra will be present at the first edition of the Lisbon Art Book Fair, to be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art - MAC/CCB in Lisbon on the weekend of 21 and 22 September.
The Italian sociologist Vania Baldi, author of the essay Between Artificial Unconsciousness and Machina Sapiens published in issue 25 of Electra, was interviewed for the Público newspaper.