*By Aracy Amaral
A curatorship is not an easy task to be conceived. Especially if the number of participants is large, the space is difficult, and the reluctance to leave out everything that could be selected is great. Especially when focusing on an exhibition such as Northeast, currently at SESC May 24. A vast region in creativity, the desire, one can see, was to include everything! Even if visitors find it difficult to understand what is exposed. The idea that passes is that nothing should be able to escape the curators, even if it is not digestible by the visitor. Who feels involved in a whirlpool that pushes his eyes and ears down all the expressions of Northeastern creators, not distinguishing any in particular. Thus, popular expressions, cordel, figurative painting, concrete painting, conceptual art, video, at all levels and dimensions, violently involve the visitor. Who feels physically and visually engulfed by the difficulty of the cluttered space in trying – in vain – to privilege one or another creator with a look that gets lost in the labyrinthine montage that is proposed to us.
The system accumulative is preferred by some curators – but not by all. And we have doubts about the correctness of this point of view. The good visibility of an included work should be a concern. Thus, to suddenly discover, in the midst of an exhibition like this one by Sesc 24 de Maio, the Withdrawals by Portinari, from the MASP collection, is a surprise. Just like seeing a little Sérvulo Esmeraldo while confessing the difficulty in locating Brennand, João Câmara, or Miguel dos Santos.
And suddenly we find Montez Magno, among a multitude of unexpected diverse creators, without any logic of presentation in space. The opposite of the expected didacticism of an exhibition that attracts a crowd of heterogeneous visitors who would deserve a clear orientation to leave with a notion of artistic expression in a region so extensive and wide in its creativity. Perhaps this show is configured beforehand as an exhibition should not be made (and could it not have been divided into stages according to the diversity of languages?). In fact, curation is not an easy task to conceive.
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The daily lives of the Brazilian people are permeated by African presences in the way we express ourselves – whether in intonation, vocabulary, pronunciation or the way we speak.
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The daily lives of the Brazilian people are permeated by African influences in the way we express ourselves – whether in intonation, vocabulary, pronunciation or the way we construct our thoughts. The temporary exhibition is about these influences. African languages that make Brazil, curated by the musician and philosopher Tiganá Santana and realization do Museum of Portuguese Language, an institution of the Secretariat of Culture, Economy and Creative Industry of the State of São Paulo. The exhibition opens to the public on May 24 and will be on display until January 2025.
The exhibition has master sponsorship from Petrobras, sponsorship from CCR, Instituto Cultural Vale, and John Deere Brasil; and support from Itaú Unibanco, Grupo Ultra and CAIXA.
Languages of the inhabitants of sub-Saharan African lands, such as Yoruba, Eve-fom and those of the Bantu group, play a decisive role in the configuration of the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, whether em their vocabulary or in the way they pronounce words and intonate sentences, even if this structure is not known to the speakers. It is a history and a reality left by around 4,8 million African people who were violently brought to the country between the 16th and 19th centuries, during the period of slavery. In addition to the language, this presence can be felt in other cultural manifestations, such as music, architecture, popular festivals and religious rituals.
“At the same time that we want to show the public that we speak a series of expressions and structures that go back to black-African languages, we also want to reveal how this happens. Why do we speak youngest and not Benjamin? Why do we say doze and not doze“These words are part of our vocabulary, our life, our way of thinking,” says Santana.
The exposure African languages that make Brazil welcomes the public with 15 words from African languages printed on oval wooden structures hanging around the room. Words such as bunda, to curse, marimbondo, Palm oil, hominy, worm e youngest. The public will also be able to hear them in the voices of people who live in the territory of Estação da Luz, where the Museum is located.
Another highlight in the space is the work of the Bahian artist J. Cunha – a fabric printed with the words “Bantu Civilizations” who dressed the traditional Ilê Aiyê, the first Afro block in Brazil, in the 1996 Carnival. In addition, around 20 thousand cowries will also be suspended and distributed throughout the area. In the Afro-Brazilian tradition, shells are used in divinatory practices and function as a language that connects the physical and spiritual worlds.
“The cowrie shells are present in Afro-religious spaces in Brazil, which were not exclusive, but the main centers of preservation and reinvention of African languages in Brazil. From there, black presences radiated to other dimensions of Brazilian popular culture,” says Santana.
Still at the entrance to the exhibition, the public will see several adinkras spread across the walls. These are symbols used as a writing system by the Ashanti people, who live in countries such as Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo, in Africa. They can represent everything from different elements of culture to entire proverbial sentences in a single ideogram. Evidencing the presence of this people as part of the African diaspora, it is possible to find, in various regions of Brazil, railings of residences and other architectural constructions adorned with some of the more than 80 adinkra symbols.
The exhibition includes two video installations by the renowned visual artist from Rio de Janeiro Aline Motta. In the work Celestial Body III, loaned by the Pinacoteca de São Paulo and projected on the floor on a large scale, the artist highlights ancient forms of Central African writing, specifically those of the Bakongo people, present in territories such as Angola. This work was developed with historian Rafael Galante. Already in Celestial Body V, created exclusively for the Museum of the Portuguese Language, four proverbs in Kikongo, Umbundu, Yoruba and Kimbundu, translated into Portuguese, will be displayed in movement on the walls and in dialogue with Celestial Body III.
One of the main names of the new generation of sculpture in the country, the Bahian Rebecca Carapiá signs works of art created in dialogue with Afrocentric frequencies and spellings, based on his work with metals.
The exhibition also shows how popular songs in Brazil were created from the integration of African languages and Portuguese, such as Slaves of Job and Open the Wheel, tindolelê. The “Jó”, from the track Job's Slaves, comes from the Kimbundu and Umbundu languages and means “house”, “house slaves”. “Enslaved ladinos, creoles and black women, who performed domestic work and spoke both the Portuguese of their masters and the language of those who performed external work, were the bridge for the Africanization of Portuguese and for the Portugueseization of Africans in the linguistic and cultural sense”, says Tiganá Santana based on research by professor Yeda Pessoa de Castro.
In addition to the cowries, the exhibition explores other non-verbal languages originating from African or Afro-diasporic cultures. Among them, braided hair, which, during the period of slavery in Brazil, served as maps of escape routes. And turbans, whose different ties indicate hierarchical position within Candomblé. There are also two works by the designer Goya Lopes, whose main references are the capulanas, the colorful cloths worn by women in Mozambique. Such works emphasize a significant articulation with the Yoruba language.
Another example of non-verbal language are the drums, which make up a scenography consisting of a projection created by Aline Motta, with images of the sea and excerpts from the text Racism and Sexism in Brazilian Culture, by Lélia Gonzalez, one of Brazil's leading intellectuals, a reference in studies and debates on gender, race and class. In these excerpts, the use of the expression Portuguese coined by the intellectual. Finally, still in this scene, it is important to highlight the presence of sculptures by Rebeca Carapiá, conversing with the frequencies of the drums.
In an interactive cinema room, visitors will be surprised by a projection of images when pronouncing words of African origin such as axis, afoxé, zombie e Shrimp bean ball.
The public will have access to a series of recordings of Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations and content about African languages and their presence in Brazilian Portuguese. There will be a performance by singer Clementina de Jesus, images of the Folklore Research Mission conceived by Mário de Andrade, interviews with researchers such as Félix Ayoh'Omidire, Margarida Petter and Laura Álvarez López, as well as recordings of performances by the Ilú Obá De Min group and the Orkestra Rumpilezz, and the video Soul Orderer, by Eustáquio Neves, which portrays Mr. Crispim, from the quilombola community of Ausente or Córrego do Ausente, in the Jequitinhonha Valley region.
All this amidst the sounds of ritual songs and narratives in Yoruba, Fom, Kimbundu and Kikongo, recorded by the American linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner in the 1940s in Bahia and provided by Indiana University in the United States. It will also be possible to watch films about Quilombo Cafundó: one that had existed for over 40 years and another that was conceived for the exhibition, dealing with the Cupópia language in a more emphatic way.
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Exhibition | African languages that make Brazil
From May 24th to January 18th, 2025
Tuesday to Sunday, from 9am to 16:30pm (staying allowed until 18pm)
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May 24, 2024 09:00 - January 18, 2025 16:30(GMT-03:00)
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Museum of Portuguese Language
Praça da Luz, no. Center, São Paulo - SP
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The exhibition Land of Giants invites the public at Sesc Casa Verde to immerse themselves in a new possible world and inspires visitors to think about contemporaneity and
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The exhibition Land of Giants invites the Sesc Casa Verde audience to immerse themselves in a new possible world and inspire visitors to think about contemporary Afro-Amerindian times and futures. Conceived and curated by artist, editor and researcher Daniel Lima, the exhibition unfolds into a video installation composed of eleven scenes, including a poetic intervention and an educational workshop, which exalt the poetic, symbolic and mythological forces that intersect between black and indigenous cultures in Brazil.
Packed with audiovisual resources developed especially to promote an interactive, sensorial and unique experience, the exhibition is inspired by theme park attractions such as ghost trains and mirror mazes. Throughout the tour, the viewer is challenged by a series of projections generated by optical sensors activated by presence: sometimes giant, sometimes tiny, in a path of lights and fantastic glimpses evoked by characters, performances, interviews and visual creations.
The scenes are starring 12 artists, collectives and leaders: Katú Mirim, an indigenous rapper from São Paulo; Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, an important Yanomami leader and author of the book “Queda do Céu” (Quendy of the Sky); Legítima Defesa, a collective of black actors and actresses; Naruna Costa, an actress, singer and theater director who performs the text “Da Paz” (From Peace), by Marcelino Freire; Jota Mombaça, a performance artist; Jonathan Neguebites, a passinho dancer from Rio de Janeiro; Daiara Tukano and Denilson Baniwa, artists from the Brazilian contemporary indigenous art scene; the central musical presence of Naná Vasconcelos; songs recorded by Juçara Marçal and Daiara Tukano, in addition to the poetic intervention of Miró da Muribeca, a poet and performer from Pernambuco.
“Land of Giants aims to bring together these generations of black and indigenous artists to question contemporary Brazilian ideology, claiming another image of Brazil, not the one created by Modernism from a white perspective,” argues Daniel Lima.
According to the curator, the exhibition was born from a process of research, self-education and investigation into quilombismo that began years ago, in previous projects led by him, such as Quilombo Brasil, and the video installation Palavras Cruzadas (2018/19), which provided the technical and poetic bases for the current project.
“Land of Giants is an expression of questions about the historical moment we are living in. A living document of the forces that constitute us as a contemporary society in Brazil. The video installation also invests in the representation of the oppressive forces that surround us like fire around us. In contrast, we position the lines of resistance articulated in this political-poetic imaginary”, concludes the curator.
Interaction and accessibility: learn more about some of the works in the exhibition
One of the highlights of the exhibition, whose gigantic scale symbolizes its title, the intervention by Davi Kopenawa Yanomami appears projected on a scale increased by 800%. Based on excerpts from his book The Fall of the Sky, Kopenawa speaks about the strength of resistance that exists not only in his figure, but in the culture of the Yanomami people who, symbolically, through the dance of their shamans, ensure that the sky remains above their heads and does not fall.
The “Kahpi Hori” series by indigenous artist Daiara Tukano is animated in three-dimensional format in a room of visual and sound immersion. Immersed in a cube with projections mapped onto the walls and floor and accompanied by songs sung by the artist herself, the audience experiences a dive into the symbolic universe of one of the expressions of contemporary indigenous Brazilian art.
In the body performance Get Up, Stand Up by Legítima Defesa, the members of the collective, divided into three groups and without speaking, challenge the audience with gestures of affirmation through projection that responds to interactivity, creating a game of actions and movements with the spectator.
Land of Giants has accessibility resources such as tactile maps, Braille subtitles, enlarged ink, audio description, video guide, audio guide and technological resources such as the vibroblaster, which transforms audio into sensitive vibrations. The exhibition also has an educational workshop open to the public with guided activities and a reading space.
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Exhibition | Giants land
From September 21th to December 22th
Tuesday to Friday, from 10:30 am to 18:30 pm, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 10:30 am to 17:30 pm
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September 21, 2024 10:30 AM - December 22, 2024 18:30 PM(GMT-03:00)
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Sesc Green House
327, Casa Verde Avenue, Sao Paulo - SP
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With a unique and influential trajectory, Rosana Paulino brings to light discussions about memory, nature, identity and Afro-Brazilian history in the exhibition “New Roots”. The works on display are the result of a
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With a unique and influential trajectory, rosana paulino brings up discussions about memory, nature, identity and Afro-Brazilian history in the exhibition “New Roots”. The works on display are the result of extensive research into the architecture and collection of the Eva Klabin House Museum, in Lagoa, proposing a conceptual separation between the two floors. With the aim of celebrating the 30-year career of the renowned artist from São Paulo, “Novas Raízes” opens on September 26 (Thursday) and can be visited free of charge from Wednesday to Sunday until January 12, 2025.
The artist's solo exhibition is her first in Rio de Janeiro after her exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, MALBA. With the show, Rosana became the first black woman to have a solo exhibition at the Argentine museum, which presented a retrospective look at the artist's career.
“This is a unique opportunity to see Rosana Paulino’s work in direct dialogue with a classic collection, thus proposing a historical and epistemological review for the visitor,” says curator Lucas Albuquerque, regarding the combination of the house’s permanent collection with the artist’s works. “Rosana intends for this exhibition to have a very strong educational character, questioning how we can rethink contemporary production in dialogue with new readings of the world, this one very different from the one left by Eva Klabin over thirty years ago,” he adds.
The rooms on the ground floor will be dedicated to works that expose the relationship between architecture and botany, with drawings, collages and installations. The works from the “Espada de Iansã” series, part of the 59th Venice Biennale, join other works that aim to break down the separation between inside and outside, with plants taking over the different rooms. Rosana draws attention to the incisive separation between the domestic environment and the garden, the result of a school of European thought that points to the need to tame nature.
The rooms on the second floor touch on a discussion about the private lives of black women throughout history. Works such as “Tropical Paradise,” “Wet Nurse,” and “Das Avós” bring back photographs and symbols from Afro-Brazilian history, reflecting on the subjugation of bodies to the erasure policies resulting from the slavery model experienced by Colonial Brazil. Using voile fabrics, ribbons, lenses, cutouts, and other objects, Paulino proposes preparing a resting place for all black women who were victims of Brazilian history, especially Mônica, the wet nurse photographed by Augusto Gomes Leal in 1860, one of the few whose name has been preserved throughout history.
'Novas Raízes' is an initiative of the Eva Klabin House Museum, produced by AREA27, sponsored by Klabin SA and produced by the Ministry of Culture. It has the support of Atlantis Brazil, Everaldo Molduras and Galeria Mendes Wood, and a media partnership with Revista Piauí and Canal Curta!.
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Exhibition | New Roots
From September 26st to January 12th
Wednesday to Sunday, from 14pm to 18pm
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September 26, 2024 14:00 - January 12, 2025 18:00(GMT-03:00)
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Eva Klabin House Museum
Av. Epitácio Pessoa, 2480 - Lagoa - RJ
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The Antonio Carlos Jobim Institute, located in the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, opens its doors to the exhibition Tom Jobim: Solo Albums. The exhibition, dedicated to one of the greatest
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O Antonio Carlos Jobim Institute, located in Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, opens the doors to the exhibition Tom Jobim: Solo Albums. The exhibition, dedicated to one of the greatest icons of Brazilian music, offers a detailed view of the 12 LPs that marked the maestro's solo career, recorded between 1963 and 1994, from the first album, The Composer of Desafinado Plays, to Antonio Brazilian, passing through milestones such as wave, Matita Pere, urubu and others.
The exhibition, which promises to be an immersive experience, invites visitors to explore Tom Jobim's artistic career through documents, photos, recordings, scores and personal objects belonging to the Institute's collection. The concept for the exhibition emerged in 2020, during the pandemic, from a series of virtual interviews between Paulo Jobim, the maestro's son who recently passed away, and Aluísio Didier, the exhibition's curator and friend of Tom's, who took over as director of the institute that same year. These conversations, held via Zoom, revealed previously unseen details about the composer's creative process and have now been transformed into documentaries that reveal the process behind each album, offering an intimate and personal perspective on Jobim's musical legacy. The videos of the conversations were edited by filmmaker Cayo Oliveira, also the exhibition's producer, and will be shown for the first time.
Didier's curation illuminates important moments in the composer's career, such as his meeting with Vinícius de Moraes, which resulted in timeless Bossa Nova classics, and his collaboration with João Gilberto on the LP Chega de saudade.
Tom Jobim: Solo Albums is a tribute to an artist who not only transcended borders, but who continues to influence generations of musicians and fans around the world. The exhibition not only celebrates the maestro’s solo work, but also invites the public to revisit and rediscover the depth and beauty of his music.
Unusual stories
In the exhibition, unusual stories about the maestro will entertain visitors. Among them, two quite iconic ones, remembered by Paulo Jobim and Didier in the documentaries.
Author of several songs named after women, Tom was approached by a researcher with a book project about the songs and their inspiring muses: Luiza, character played by Vera Fischer in the soap opera Brilhante; Gabriela, character played by Jorge Amado; Maria Luiza's samba, the youngest daughter, among others.
However, the researcher also asks about the “muse” Carla who inspired the song of the same name. Tom is surprised and asks: “Which Carla?” The researcher insists: “Well, the one from the 50s song, “Carla, my love”, the boy answers. It turns out that the song was called “Cala, my love”.
“The researcher had already met the woman who had been the source of inspiration,” Paulinho jokes, in one of the chats with Didier.
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Musicians are always asked by critics or fans for new things, new music, an update of their art, a dialogue with influences, new technologies. With Tom, always faithful to the “old” acoustic piano or guitar, it was no different. On the album Tide, we can hear him on the Fender Rhodes electric piano, a classic today, but at the time, a different sound, a step ahead of acoustic instruments. At the time, people asked themselves: “What happened, Tom giving in to a more pop sound?” Yes and no. If the result was great on the track “Takatanga”, the fact was due to a glass of whiskey spilled inside the acoustic piano in the studio, which made the instrument unusable for recording. “Jobim, with no other option, accepts to take a risk on the Fender Rhodes and seems to have liked it, because on the next LP, Stone flower, repeats the experience on several tracks”, says Didier.
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Exhibition | Tom Jobim: Solo Albums
From October 09th (permanent exhibition)
Daily (except Wednesday), from 9am to 17pm
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October 9, 2024 09:00 PM - December 31, 2030 17:00 PM(GMT-03:00)
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Antonio Carlos Jobim Institute
Botanical Garden Street, 1008, Rio de Janeiro - RJ
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The Verve gallery opens 'The Color of Yesterday's Dream', the first solo exhibition by São Paulo artist Lucas Rubly, in Mezzanine 26 of the Louvre Building. The opening is scheduled for 19
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The gallery Verve inaugurates 'The color of yesterday's dream', first solo exhibition by the artist from São Paulo Lucas Rubly, in Mezzanine 26 of the Louvre Building. Scheduled to open on October 19, 2024, the exhibition features new works and series produced by the artist, accompanied by a critical text by Marina Schiesari, who coordinates the gallery's research and curation.
In the exhibition, his characteristic series of paintings of sandcastles, houses, forests, flowers and abstracts are all presented in dialogue. “Just as the lyrical self sees himself in the poem and captures the “world” with a few words, Rubly does the same by constructing metonymies of his solitude,” comments Marina Schiesari in the exhibition text; “In this context, Paulo Leminski’s haiku inspires his first solo exhibition by uniting past and present, and highlighting the relationship between the subjective process of creation and fragments of a collective consciousness.”
Among his painting inspirations, Morandi, Hopper, Tuymans, Goya, and Picasso, Rubly “makes an unusual choice according to traditional painting: the square format, influenced by the visual repertoire of social networks. By transporting us to the dimension of cell phones and tablets, the paintings are tensioned by the fabric and wood supports. This contrast, added to the size, invites the observer to get closer physically, promoting a more time-consuming and intimate experience of absorption”, comments Schiesari.
In the words of Miguel Chaia, a collector and friend of the artist, his paintings take us to “places in the past where there was harmony, but which have undergone changes and losses. The artist paints a painting of ‘lack’. Hence the presence of tragedy in these works, which are permeated by a sense of wonder and wonder. Rubly produces paintings that are invitations to seek out other places, new references and unusual sensations – beyond everyday life.”
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Exhibition | The color of yesterday's dream
From October 19rd to November 23st
Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 18pm, Saturday, 12pm to 17pm
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October 19, 2024 11:00 - November 23, 2024 18:00(GMT-03:00)
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Verve Gallery
Avenida São Luis, 192, Sobreloja 06, República, São Paulo - SP
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Ministry of Culture, Nubank and Instituto Tomie Ohtake are pleased to announce Mira Schendel – waiting for the letter to form, an exhibition curated by Galciani Neves and Paulo
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Ministry of Culture, Nubank e Tomie Ohtake Institute is pleased to announce Mira Schendel – wait for the lyrics to form, exhibition curated by Galciani Neves e Paulo Miyada, which explores the presence of graphic signs, letters and the word language in the artistic production of Mira Schendel (1919–1988). Bringing together more than 250 works, including paintings, monotypes, drawings, notebooks, graphic objects and an installation, the exhibition is divided into seven sections, inviting the public to immerse themselves in the presence of words in Mira's artistic production and their interconnections. The exhibition will open on October 24, concurrently with the exhibition Carlito Carvalhosa – A meia do dobro.
Mira Schendel – waiting for the letter to form is part of the biannual program word word word, which began with the project Poetry in Presence – Between Scenes, Slam, Spoken Word and Rap, and which will also feature the launch of the publication Essay Notebook 2: Word. This exhibition is sponsored by Nubank, through the Ministry of Culture, via the Culture Incentive Law, the National Culture Support Program and the Federal Government – Brazil, Union and Reconstruction.
Recognized as one of the most significant artists of 1949th century Brazilian art, Mira Schendel was born in Zurich, Switzerland, of Jewish, Czech, German and Italian ancestry. Due to anti-Semitic persecution, she fled to Brazil in 1960, where she lived and produced much of her work, engaging with Concrete Poetry, Neoconcretism and the artistic experiments of the 1970s and XNUMXs.
Neves and Miyada point out that Schendel challenged herself by seeking ways to give meaning to the ephemeral. It was in one of the artist’s manuscripts, for example, that the curators found the title of the exhibition, “waiting for the letter to form” and from there they also extracted the following excerpt, present in the curatorial text: “The sequence of letters on the paper imitates time, without being able to truly represent it. They are simulations of lived time, and do not capture the experience of the irretrievable, which characterizes this time. The texts that I drew on paper can be read and reread, something that time cannot. They fix, without immortalizing, the fluidity of time.”
The curators conceived the installation in seven sections, fluidly supported by the artist’s chronology. In “Arrival in Brazil and the Word,” the section that opens the exhibition, the public sees the journey from schematic representations of objects to abstract compositions and experiments with graphic elements. Highlights include works from the 1960s, when Mira integrates labels and texts into her work, bringing the written word to the center of her compositions. In “Writing-drawing structuring spaces,” there are drawings made with India ink and charcoal that show the relationship between word and space, combining letters, graphic signs, and calligraphic gestures. According to the curators, Haroldo de Campos described Mira’s “writing-art,” in which the graphic sign becomes an aesthetic issue and a way of fabricating spaces.
In “The Spiral Word”, there are works that feature words in different languages, especially Italian and German, languages that the artist inherited from her parents, which appear alongside Portuguese, the official language of Brazil. For the curators, “This diversity of expressions and pronunciations makes the word in the artist’s work effective as a kind of event of enunciation of something, as if writing/drawing the letters and their decoding made what is stated there come true. The word thus establishes a situation”, they conclude.
The next section, “Art: encounter with the corporeal”, highlights the Toquinhos, both those made in rice paper and those in acrylic. Among the homonymous series, the Letraset decals are the common element. In “Refluir de páginas fechas e abertas” (Reflow of closed and open pages), there are the notebooks by Mira Schendel. The curatorship points out that “These works – made, for the most part, in 1971 – are composition exercises on bound, perforated, stapled or glued paper, like brochures or simple clusters of pages. The artist used hundreds of sets of sheets, of many dimensions, which, understood in their sequence, form a journey through time and space”.
Completing the exhibition are “Monotypes and graphic objects”, two of the artist’s best-known series and “Storied waves of probability, a whisper”, which, as the name suggests, presents the installation “Storied waves of probability”, her largest work.
In parallel with the Mira Schendel exhibition, the Tomie Ohtake Institute is opening Carlito Carvalhosa – a meia do dupla, the first major retrospective of the artistic production of Carlito Carvalhosa (1961–2021). With around 150 works dating from 1984 to 2021, the exhibition is jointly curated by Ana Roman, Lúcia Stumpf, Luis Pérez-Oramas and Paulo Miyada.
Public Program
These exhibitions are complemented by a public program of meetings, workshops and experiences, with programming updated on the Institute’s website and social media throughout the exhibition period. At the opening, on October 25, there will be a program designed for teachers from public and private schools, as well as for arts professionals, with the participation of the exhibition curators and educators from the institution. On October 26, the public is invited to watch a performance by the duo Teia-Teia, a musical partnership between Inês Terra (voice) and Júlia Telles (teremin). The duo researches the relationship between early electronic devices and voices, through improvised and compositional processes. Teia moves between harmonic and noisy sounds, exploring the possibilities of the body through interventions, graphic scores and field recordings. On November 1, the general public is invited to participate in the debate Os echoes da palavra (The echoes of the word), with the presence of artists Livia Aquino, Lenora de Barros and researcher Maria Carvalhosa. On November 2nd, there will be three workshops on different text genres: Invented Menus, with the participation of journalist and gastronomic critic Luiza Fecarotta; Book Dedication – Books that remind me of you, with the participation of researcher Rosa Couto; and Comedy Techniques and Our Responsibility with Words, led by actress and comedian Karina Sbruzzy. On November 21st, there will also be an audio description workshop, From Word to Image, with artist DEF Isafora Ifanger, and on January 14th, the zine workshop, Mira Schendel's Diary, led by artist and educator Léo Daruma. Participation in the events requires prior registration, via the Institute's website and subject to availability.
Friends program
The Instituto Tomie Ohtake Friends Program aims to bring the public closer to one of the most emblematic art spaces in the city of São Paulo. In addition to providing support, Amigo Tomie will be part of a community connected to art, will have special benefits and unique experiences. There are three categories of support, contributing to new exhibitions, educational programs, annual budget and maintenance of the Institute. And a new feature for Nubank users, sponsor of the Mira Schendel exhibition – wait for the letter to form: The institution's customers have a 25% discount on any support category, while Ultraviolet customers have a 50% discount.
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Exhibition | Mira Schendel – wait for the lyrics to form
From October 25th to February 02th
Tuesday to Sunday, from 11pm to 19pm
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October 25, 2024 11:00 - February 2, 2025 19:00(GMT-03:00)
Location
Tomie Ohtake Institute
Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 201, Pinheiros, São Paulo – SP
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“Nobody Can Come With Me” is the third solo exhibition by artist Ana Dias Batista at Galeria Marilia Razuk, and will open on October 26, from 11 am to 16 pm. Known for her work
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"Nobody can with me” is the artist’s third solo exhibition Ana Dias Baptist na Marilia Razuk Gallery, and will be inaugurated on October 26, from 11 am to 16 pm. Known for her multifaceted work, which with each project approaches a field of the world of life, Ana Dias Batista transforms the gallery into a plant store.
The installation, specially designed for the Gallery's original space on the ground floor of the Gisele Building, in Itaim Bibi, appropriates materials common in these establishments, such as flowers, cacti, floral foam and vases, subjecting them to arrangements that subvert or expand everyday perception.
Visitors can indeed buy and take away objects – plants, vases and even pieces of the floor made entirely of floral foam bricks. However, the “real” operation does not prevent the store from establishing fictions: language procedures slide between manufactured objects and natural plants; hybrid individuals, formed by grafting, share a common name; plants that look like animal organs occupy vases in the shape of wildcards, or wither and spread throughout the exhibition.
The project also includes works by two guest artists: the poet Ana Martins Marques and the artist João Loureiro. By evoking the connotations of the plant popularly known as “Comigo-ninguém-pode”, the artist reinforces the transit of meanings and opens space for reflections on language, nature and representation.
“Nobody Can Stop Me” is supported by Oasis Produtos Florais.
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Exhibition | Nobody can with me
From October 26st to December 18th
Monday to Friday, 10:30am to 19pm, Saturday, 11am to 16pm
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October 26, 2024 10:30 PM - December 18, 2024 19:00 PM(GMT-03:00)
Location
Marilia Razuk Gallery
Rua Jerônimo da Veiga, 62 – Itaim Bibi, São Paulo - SP
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Galeria Tato presents the solo exhibition Sob as Árvores by artist Ana Michaelis, curated by Maria Alice Milliet. In recent years, landscape paintings have been the main
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A Tato Gallery presents the solo exhibition Under the Trees.of the artist Ana Michaelis, curated by Maria Alice Milliet.
In recent years, landscape paintings have been Ana Michaelis' main interest. As the curator reports: "There are events that change people's lives. For Ana Michaelis, contact with the Amazon Rainforest was decisive: it changed her painting. She had already been painting trees, treating them separately as plant species in a plant catalogue. However, when she discovered the strength of the tropical forest that covers the North of Brazil, she felt such an impact that she could no longer
paint them solitary, contained in an ascetic space, in the manner of botanists, who have been recording tropical flora since the 19th century”.
For this exhibition, the artist and curator selected two series – Canopy and Lichens – through which, according to Maria Alice Milliet, “the artist sought to focus on the macro and micro dimensions of the forest ecosystem, without, however, aiming for scientific precision, but rather to poetically translate the emotion that immersion in the tropical habitat produced in her”.
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Exhibition | Under the Trees
From October 26th to November 23th
Wednesday to Saturday, from 13pm to 18pm
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October 26, 2024 13:00 - November 23, 2024 18:00(GMT-03:00)
Location
Tato Gallery
Rua Barra Funda, 893. Barra Funda. Sao Paulo-SP
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The exhibition Secrets and Spells by Thiago Barbalho will feature approximately 40 works produced this year, such as the large drawing “The Perfect Pie”, measuring over two meters in height (image
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Sample Secrets and spells de Thiago Barbalho will have approximately 40 works produced this year, such as the large drawing “The Perfect Pie”, over two meters high (image below), as well as medium and small format drawings – in which he uses colored pencils, pastels, pens and markers, acrylic and oil paint –, and sculptures, made in various materials such as 3D printing, resin and fiberglass, acrylic, fabric and automotive paint.
The exhibition also features works by the artist with elements characteristic of the culture of Jardim do Seridó, in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, his mother's homeland, such as cave paintings, the semi-arid landscape and artisanal textile production techniques. One example is the tapestry “Futuro” (2024), below, measuring two meters high by one and a half meters wide, developed in conjunction with the collective Flor de Kantuta, made up of Bolivian women weavers based in São Paulo.
“I wanted to bring together a variety of references, from the dams and rivers of our land, to the handicrafts of Rio Grande do Norte, with their tapestries and quilts. But I wanted to avoid the clichés associated with northeastern art in general,” says Thiago. Between July 16 and September 29, 2024, curator Catarina Duncan and artist Thiago Barbalho established an email exchange as a method of investigative monitoring and dialogue around the artist’s work.
The conversation covers Barbalho's artistic practice and the development of the exhibition, while also opening up space for digressions and personal accounts, including current news, dreams and research references. The correspondence was printed and will be available at the exhibition.
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Exhibition | Secrets and spells
From October 31th to January 18th
Monday to Friday from 10:19 to 11:15, Saturday from XNUMX:XNUMX to XNUMX:XNUMX
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October 31, 2024 10:00 - January 18, 2025 19:00 pm(GMT-03:00)
Location
Nara Roesler Gallery - SP
Avenida Europa, 655, São Paulo - SP
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What is the body in relation to the object? What is your reaction to being in a territory outside the established standards? When interacting with a different and considered unusual matter,
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What is the body in relation to the object? What is its reaction when it is in a territory outside the established standards? When interacting with a different and unusual material, how does the body redefine the spaces of action with a given object? It is from these questions that the first solo exhibition of Nazareth Pacheco na Lume Gallery"So do it!“. Curated by Galciani Neves, the exhibition instigates a reflection between what is regimented and what is possible, when “objects appropriated from everyday life are reproduced in unusual materials, while their uses are also reconfigured beyond the prescribed and current normativities”.
Nazareth Pacheco transforms her work into a record of her experience and invites the visitor to question the meaning of the forms called “standards”, intended for parameterized uses aimed at the “common human being”. Common, according to whom?
By changing the weight and material of everyday objects, the artist provokes an abrupt reconfiguration in their habitual handling and, thus, transforms their relationship with the body that observes them. In the curator’s words: “Nazareth calls us to perceive events sensitively and to construct multiple narratives: that which bodies tell, that which bodies contrast when they dare to equate them. The stories are not the same, just as the bodies are not the same either.”
“So, do it!”, the instruction that gives the exhibition its name, recalls one of Pacheco’s contacts with the artist Louise Bourgeois, a fundamental reference in his production, especially in the relationship with materials, in the methods of creation and in the way of approaching autobiographical themes through visual language: “To live and to do, (…) to feel in one’s own skin and overflow into art; to be swept away by events and re-materialize them.” concludes Galciani Neves.
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Exhibition | So do it!
From November 07th to March 07st
Monday to Friday, from 10 am to 19 pm; Saturdays, from 11 am to 15 pm
Period
November 7, 2024 10:00 AM - March 7, 2025 19:00 PM(GMT-03:00)
Location
Lume Gallery
Rua Gumercindo Saraiva, 54 - Jardim Europa, São Paulo - SP
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Under the pulse of open veins, Galeria Raquel Arnaud receives the project “THE WINDS OF THE NORTH DO NOT MOVE MILLS” by artist Geórgia Kyriakakis. With critical text by Paula Borghi,
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Under the pulsation of open veins, the Raquel Arnaud Gallery receive the project “NORTH WINDS DO NOT MOVE MILLS” by the artist Georgia kyriakakis. With a critical text by Paula Borghi, the exhibition features works that provoke reflections on the culture, history and social heritage of the colonization process in Latin America.
Inspired by the song “Sangue Latino,” composed in 1973 by Paulinho Mendonça and João Ricardo, and immortalized by the band Secos e Molhados, the artist proposes an expanded vision of Latin America, which goes beyond geographical concepts and contrasts the North American cultural influence. “What we call Latin America is a type of regionalization that considers the languages spoken, the historical processes of colonization and exploitation, social inequalities and ancestral indigenous origins, among other factors. The ‘winds from the north’, mentioned in the song, are a direct allusion to the imperialist forces of the global north, which result in oppression and plundering of natural and social resources, present in the region’s history. These forces ‘do not move mills’, they promote the inexorable underdevelopment of Latin America,” explains Geórgia.
Composed of sculptures, drawings, installations and collaborative actions, the exhibition occupies the entire gallery space. On the ground floor are two series of drawings inspired by the history of the city of Chuquicamata, in Chile, abandoned due to air pollution and contamination caused by copper mining in the region. On the main wall, the artist presents OPEN VEINS, a large strip of red fabrics of different shapes and textures, covering the entire lower half of the wall. There are almost 20 meters of overlapping fabrics, arranged to represent the geographical division between north and south. These fabrics feature excerpts from the song Sangue Latino: “my life, my dead, my crooked paths, my Latin blood, my captive soul”. Also on the ground floor, another phrase from the same song inspired the creation of the three sculptures called LANÇA AO ESPAÇO, composed of 15 turned wooden spears, pointed and fitted together.
On the upper floor, there are collaborative projects proposed by Kyriakakis in partnership with artists Carla Chaim, Aline Langendonck, Isis Gasparini and Vânia Medeiros, developed to involve the participation of the gallery team. Except for Vânia Medeiros, all the other artists, as well as curator Paula Borghi, were Kyriakakis' students in the Visual Arts course at FAAP. The project arose from the artist's desire to combine her work as an artist and a teacher in the same initiative.
All the actions establish relationships with the general theme of the exhibition and were created for an initial collaboration with the gallery's work team during the assembly of the works. After the opening, the public will also be able to interact with the proposals.
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Exhibition | NORTH WINDS DO NOT MOVE MILLS
From November 7th to January 17th 2025
Monday to Friday from 11:19 to 11:15, Saturday from XNUMX:XNUMX to XNUMX:XNUMX
Period
November 7, 2024 11:00 AM - January 17, 2025 19:00 PM(GMT-03:00)
Location
Raquel Arnaud Gallery
Rua Fidalga, 125 – Vila Madalena, São Paulo - SP
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With a critical text by curator and researcher Luciara Ribeiro, the exhibition presents an unprecedented set of paintings, sculptures and installations that demonstrate the material and conceptual expansion in the practice of
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With critical text by the curator and researcher Luciara Ribeiro, the exhibition presents an unprecedented set of paintings, sculptures and installations that demonstrate the material and conceptual expansion in the artist's practice, while delving deeper into the themes debated throughout his career.
The first individual at Martins in Brazil in five years, Fronteiras inóspitas investigates the relationships between the subject and the dominant social structures, permeated by classic existential debates. An example of these reflections is the set of paintings produced for the exhibition, in which the artist lends his image in the form of self-portraits. Thinking about dimensions that are not limited to himself, Martins places himself in environments marked by symbols related to the brevity and impasses of life, as well as signs that relate to Brazilian society. One of these paintings reveals a birthday scene with balloons, banners and a table with bottles of soda. The character blows out the candles on a cake, next to which lies a skull. The symbol is a classic memento mori — images that in the history of art serve as a reminder that existence is fleeting.
Another work shows the character feeding a vulture and wearing a t-shirt with a reference to Hélio Oiticica's flag — the image of Cara de Cavalo's body stretched out and a change in the famous phrase: “Be marginal, don't be a hero”. More than a quote, Martins provokes the art system and questions the social values that distinguish some between prestige and marginality.
The existential investigation marked by political criticism is also present in the large installation that welcomes the public to the gallery. Seca is composed of a boat resting on a mirrored surface. Upon approaching, the viewer notices that there is also another mirror in the vessel. “An illusion, a mirage, an impossibility in possibility,” writes curator Luciara Ribeiro in the exhibition text. “The image captured by the mirror makes the body present inside the boat, an entire dimension of the confrontation between reality and its projections, time and space. Time is different, with dilations and accelerations, being felt and projected, computed or risked,” she adds.
The violence present in Brazilian daily life, especially that perpetrated by the State, is addressed head-on in other works on display. Bulletproof vests are molds for sculptures, in addition to being, in themselves, material for works. In Dress Code 2, they are positioned and arranged on the wall, alluding to formalist compositions of Brazilian concrete art. The work raises discussions about the monetization of violence, highlighting the control, security and surveillance of bodies. “Surveillance and control as a strategy for managing public, political, social, educational and police violence,” points out the curator.
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Exhibition | Inhospitable borders
From November 09th to December 14th
Monday to Friday, 10am to 19pm, Saturday, 11am to 15pm
Period
November 9, 2024 10:00 - December 14, 2024 19:00(GMT-03:00)
Location
Millan Gallery
Rua Fradique Coutinho 1360/1430 São Paulo SP
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Gomide&Co is pleased to present 'Água (verde)', an exhibition by Antonio Ballester Moreno (Spain, 1977). This is the artist's first solo show in Brazil, as well as the second presentation of his works.
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A Gomide&Co is pleased to present 'Water (green)', exhibition of Antonio Ballester Moreno (Spain, 1977). This is the artist's first solo exhibition in Brazil, and the second presentation of his works in the country since his participation as an artist and member of the curatorial team at the 33rd São Paulo Biennial: 'Affinidades Afetivas' (2018), curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro. The exhibition's critical text is written by curator and art critic Taisa Palhares.
For 'Água (verde)', Ballester Moreno starts from the notion of landscape understood as a system in which all elements have a relationship with each other. The exhibition is composed of a new set of large-scale canvases made in acrylic on jute that function as a stage in which the artist seeks to create an environment through the relationship between each of the paintings and their respective combinations of shapes and colors. According to Palhares: “While on the one hand, the compositions recall the universe of the abstract painting tradition of the 20th century, on the other, they refer directly to the symbolic figuration of nature, providing a poetic game that activates the viewer's perception.”
Antonio Ballester Moreno was born in Madrid in 1977, where he lives and works, and is considered one of the leading artists of his generation in Spain. He studied visual arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universität der Künste Berlin. His production, which includes paintings, collages and ceramics, is based on manual and artisanal work, mobilizing symbolic meanings in a unique repertoire composed of primary colors, economy of forms and exploration of the landscape in its particular elements. His works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions around the world, especially in Europe and the United States, and are present in the collections of museums and institutions such as: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León; Colección Ella Fontanals Cisneros (CIFO), Miami; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Barcelona; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid; among others.
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Exhibition | Water (green)
From November 13th to December 27th
Monday to Friday, 10am to 19pm, Saturday, 11am to 17pm
Period
November 13, 2024 10:00 - December 27, 2024 19:00(GMT-03:00)
Location
Gomide & Co
Avenida Paulista, 2644 01310-300 - São Paulo - SP
“(…)a trained eye to see only what was once capable of observing.”