UPCOMING
ARCO LISBOA 2026 Opening Section
28 - 31 May
PAST
ARCO MADRID 2026
Priscila Fernandes + Mike Bouchet
STAND 9OP14 Opening Section
4 - 8 March
LOOP Barcelona 2025
18 - 20 November
DRAWING ROOM 2025
STAND 10
23 - 26 October
Francisca Carvalho + Maria Paz Aires
STAND OP08 Opening Section
The Master and Margarita
Dialogue’s participation in a fair dedicated to drawing emerges as a statement: drawing and humor are our common denominator — the ground where thought meets gesture and impulse, and irony turns into line.
It is in this spirit that we present The Master and Margarita — a gathering of drawings that evoke satire, laughter, confusion, and passion in equal measure. The compositions unfold as portals — between clarity and delirium, humor and devotion.
The artists — Diogo Bolota, Francisca Carvalho, Priscila Fernandes, Sara Graça, Catarina Marques Domingues, Tiago Mestre, Vera Midões, and Gonçalo Pena — draw while invoking the unseen. Lines speak in tongues, thoughts take form, and paper becomes a place of enchantment and revolt.
Borrowing its name from Bulgakov’s unruly novel — a fable where the devil visits a city and truth disguises itself in absurdity — this presentation also transforms the stand into a space of intimacy, where drawings meet and coexist through gestures of revelation and desire: a joyful resistance to certainty, reminding us that even in chaos, imagination remains sacred.
Fragments from series such as NEWS STAND (Priscila Fernandes), Peplum (Francisca Carvalho), Nítido e Obscuro (Diogo Bolota), Barber Shop (Gonçalo Pena), and Fiat Vita (Catarina Marques Domingues), Lynch sobre Lynch (Vera Midões), are shown here alongside other standalone and previously unseen works, creating a dialogue of gestures and intentions that intersect and resonate.
The artificial world mirrors the human one, and the page becomes a shared field — a place where image and writing, love and violence, memory and prophecy coexist. These drawings open onto many worlds, where each gesture hints at the beginnings of another way of seeing and being.
Composed in pen, Chinese ink, coloured pencil, graphite, gouache, encaustic, watercolour, and dry pastel — each work carries its own spell, its own fragile matter of light and devotion.
Ultimately, The Master and Margarita is an invitation to inhabit the challenge — to become, like the drawings, an open and fertile field, welcoming and receptive to new ideas, perspectives, and experiences.
