Daniel Blaufuks in Electra and maat
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 In 2020, the Book of Hours section of Electra 9 included a previously unpublished part of Daniel Blaufuks’s ‘diary’, which he started during the Covid-19 lock-downs between 24 April and 4 May of that year.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.
Electra celebrates a partnership with Estado da Arte, the cultural magazine of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.
A talk will be held in the auditorium of the Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Foundation on Wednesday, 24 September, 6pm, around the central theme of Electra magazine’s issue #29, ‘The Body’.
Daniel Blaufuks, author of the ‘Book of Hours’ in Electra #29, presents the project Japanese Journals at the Portugal Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.
Electra takes part in the Porto Book Fair, which runs from August 22 to September 7.