Something happens in my heart: the images of São Paulo
The critic and curator Tadeu Chiarelli analyses, based on the work "Don't enter the left", by Maurício Nogueira Lima, the representation of the city of São Paulo made in photographs and paintings at different times of the XNUMXth century
To Nelson or the Perils of Interpretive Fury
Six months after Nelson Leirner's death, critic Tadeu Chiarelli discusses one of the artist's main works and his unavoidable presence in the country's art scene
The former MAM, the MAC USP and the ex-banker's collection
Former director of MAC USP, Tadeu Chiarelli draws in his column a parallel between the creation of the museum, in 1963, from the donation of the collection of the former MAM-SP, and the recent period in which the museum was responsible for guarding the Collection Santos Bank
Where graffiti screams: São Paulo in the 90th anniversary of the Plano...
Twice mayor of São Paulo, Prestes Maia was largely responsible for what the city has become; in this article, Tadeu Chiarelli draws attention to how the former mayor thought (or did not think) about art for public spaces
Alfredo Nicolaiewsky's recent production or the art that gives...
To be in front of a true finished work of art or to follow its constitution, are these experiences with points in common? From his participation in a WhatsApp group, in these months of pandemic, the author tries to demonstrate that yes!
Bandeirantes on the move: between disputes and conciliation
Starting from the 1985 comic book by Luiz Gê, going through the debates that dominated the early 20th century on the "bandeirante epic" and the "Paulista homeland", Tadeu Chiarelli deepens the discussion about the monuments of the city of São Paulo and their symbolisms.
Empathy as an aesthetic experience
The limits of our capacity for empathy are also the limits of our experience of language, of our optical form and of our own condition; in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, when solidarity and empathy are even more necessary, we recall a text by psychoanalyst Christian Dunker
The pantheon of São Paulo's immortals: tropical delirium in the Patio...
In the context of the debate on controversial monuments in public squares, the article by Tadeu Chiarelli presents Adolfo A. Pinto's extravagant idea of building a Civic Center in downtown São Paulo to honor the old and “new” pioneers.
Decolonial, de-othering: imagining a post-national policy that institutes new subjectivities...
Based on a discussion raised by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the occasion of the 21st Bienal Sesc_VideoBrasil, Márcio Seligmann-Silva reflects on colonial and post-colonial issues; read the second part of the text
Long-lasting performance and the pandemic in each...
"The performer, in addition to moving through time, puts himself in rituals that intend these limits often misunderstood by those who are outside the observation and, by irony of fate, very similar to what we are experiencing", writes the artist Marco Paulo rolla
