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THE NEW WORLD ORDER
music and film
in Lisbon
emanuel dimas de melo pimenta
with works by Luís Pintão
June 4 2026 6PM
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28ART Gallery . Lisboa . Portugal
Rua Madre Teresa de Calcutá 9A
Marvila, 1550-322 Lisboa
curator . Sara Simões Ferreira
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I met Luís Pintão
some time ago, not long ago, about two years. It was during the
preparation of an exhibition by the brilliant Swiss-Brazilian
artist Cláudia Lima, a dear friend whom I admire very
much. We soon became friends. I met Sara. A lovely couple. And
their daughter, Leonor, who is just as lovely. Luís is
a special person, extremely attentive, observant, a sensitive
soul. The ancient pre-Columbian Toltec Indians, in what is now
Mexico, who flourished between the years 950 and 1150 of the
common era, claimed that a large part of the world's population
was made up of ghosts. Beings who pass through life without being
aware of it, only of the small things of immediate perception,
of "entertainment", and departed leaving no trace.
Luís and Sara are not ghosts. In both of them the eyes
shine. I soon discovered that Luís was an artist - a word
that is so often abused these days. Ironically, most people seem
to have become artists, but not in the sense attributed by Joseph
Beuys, on the contrary! Everyone seems to define themselves as
an artist in a universe where art no longer exists. Therefore,
everyone defines themselves as non-artists, believing in the
opposite. In the last instance, art is philosophy. Unlike illustration
or decoration - which are very worthy human activities - art
is the critique of culture in its modus operandi. That is, taking
criticism from its Indo-European etymological root *krei - which
indicated the idea of "sifting", "distinguishing".
In other words, criticism as the undressing and revealing of
a reality, of a culture. Like art, this revelation always takes
place in the depths of the human soul. As soon as I met Luís
and his work, I immediately realized that he was a special person,
someone dedicated to understanding what thought is, to dreaming
the dreams of Humanity, not those of today, but since the most
remote Classical Antiquity. Thus, each one of his paintings is
a kind of yantra - a visual mantra - through which a person dives
into themselves and discovers the engrams that form him or her,
the involuntary impulses that reveal his or her volition, his
or her persona. These engrams can be more or less obvious. It
all depends on the person and the moment, what he or she understands,
what he or she interiorly designs in himself or herself.
The world premiere of The New World Order took place in Ascona,
Locarno, Switzerland, at the brilliant foundation created by
Guglielmina Montano and Massoud Mowlazadeh, dedicated to contemporary
art, young people and liberty.
The second presentation of this project could only take place
at a very special moment. In 2020, Luís Pintão
and Sara Simões Ferreira created Galeria 28ART in Lisbon
and, in one way or another, they have maintained the spirit that
forged art galleries during the Italian Renaissance, particularly
in the 16th century: the gallery as a tunnel, a place of passage
and transformation of the human being. In Italian, the word "gallery"
means just that: tunnel. Here, one can sell the works of art
or not, what prevails is the human transformation, the discovery.
Emanuel Dimas de Melo
Pimenta
Lisboa. 2026
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In oneself lies the whole world and if you
know how to look and learn, the door is there
and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth
can give you either the key or the door to
open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti..............................
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dedicated to Alberto del Genio and Marco Rapattoni
in memory of three genius, three great friends: René Berger,
John Cage and John Wheeler
all thanks to Luís Pintão and Sara Simões Ferreira
and also thanks to Guglielmina Montano e Massoud Mowlazadeh
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Although
insistently announced by the most varied totalitarian minds,
or critical ones in Orwell's case, for over a hundred years,
here the New World Order is not about the future, but about the
present. The sounds that make up our cities, our world, the images
that penetrate the depths of who we are, every day, every minute,
the absence of silence, the massification of everything, the
end of capitalism with the obsolescence of money and, paradoxically,
the emergence of the Money God. A concert, an experimental film,
a text... to think about.
Countless
millions will protest against the New World Order, and will die
fighting it.
HG Wells
National
Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new
world order.
Adolf Hitler
The
people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count
the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
A ruling
group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors.
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with
perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided
that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
George Orwell
We are
moving toward a New World Order, the world of communism. We shall
never turn off that road.
Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987
We are
on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right
major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
David Rockefeller
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above - Emanuel Pimenta, The new World Order (fragment)
above Luís Pintão, Humilis AESTUS (2025)
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