Mercosul Biennial: threads that connect art to the city

Porto Alegre breathes art with its most important festival. 14th Mercosur Biennial occupies spaces and streets and gains new airs, images and textures in the Historic Center with the inauguration of the exhibition “Poetics of the Thread – Our Plots” this Saturday, May 24, from 14 pm to 16:30 pm at Galeria Duque. The exhibition is part of the Project “Doors to Art” of the Biennale, which also occupies Rua Duque de Caxias in front of the gallery with the installation “Art Connects”. The curation is by Daisy Viola and the exhibition will remain in the space until July 12th. Free entry.

The Duque Gallery also offers an immersion into the works of great Brazilian masters with one of the most complete collections in the state. In the “Poetics of Here” exhibition, it is possible to see works by names such as Iberê Camargo, Carlos Scliar, Carlos Vergara, Di Cavalcanti, Leopoldo Gotuzzo, Danúbio Gonçalves, Cândido Portinari, Siron Franco, Burle Marx, Anita Malfatti, Ruth Schneider, Maria Lídia Magliani, Frans Krajcberg, Alice Soares, Márcia Marostega, Nelson Jungbluth, Tarsila do Amaral, Gelson Radaelli, Antonio Bandeira, Oscar Crusius, Fernando Baril, Glênio Bianchetti, Glauco Rodrigues, João Luiz Roth, Ione Saldanha, among others.

The exhibition “Poéticas do Fio – Tramas Nossas” presents works by four artists who use yarn and/or fabric as a support or means of expression for their work: Daisy Viola, Fernando da Luz, Fernando Lima and Rosane Morais. “The use of yarn and fabric in artistic creation engages with social and cultural issues through the choice of materials and techniques, such as sewing, embroidery, crochet or knitting, which are part of the life stories of many of us, of memories, especially female ones, of our grandmothers and mothers. Thus, the use of traditional craft techniques ends up being a meeting point between tradition and contemporaneity”, explains curator Daisy Viola.

Those who pass by Rua Duque de Caxias will have another type of contact with art, but one that also involves threads and weaves. It is the installation “Arte Conecta”, produced by artists Roberto Freitas, Adriana Leiria and Ronaldo Mohr. The work took two months to be assembled and displays 50 meters of recycled material, including items such as upholstery and PET, in an artistic manifestation that connects to Galeria Duque on the other side of the street and that proves that art is democratic and can be present in the most diverse spaces.

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Exhibition | Poetics From Here
From May 24th to July 12th
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