Exhibition "Ocupação Mulherio"

A Danielian Gallery is pleased to present, from August 8st, 2024, at 18 h, “Woman Occupation”, a set of solo exhibitions by artists Nadia Taquary - “Tides”;Sônia Menna Barreto - "Fables"; Nelly Gutmacher - "Dreams"; Niura Bellavinha - "Essences”; is “Harmonies”, a special room dedicated to the work of the artist and dealer Marcia Barrozo do Amaral, who died a year ago (1943-2023).   

 The curators Marcus de Lontra Costa, Viviane Matesco e Rafael Fortes Peixoto continue the idea started in 2022, with the exhibition “Woman”, which brought together works by 35 female artists from different generations, research and poetics, based on historical research and selection of works.  

 The curatorial trio highlights that “Woman Occupation” does not start “from a premise or a thematic link, but its main objective is to demonstrate the importance of these women’s trajectory for the Brazilian cultural environment, as well as the strength and poetry of their expressions”. “Without categorizations or classifications, “Woman Occupation” reaffirms “spaces and achievements, showing that art represents the essential feminine power to create and above all, transform”, they say. Marcus de Lontra Costa, Viviane Matesco e Rafael Fortes Peixoto further point out that “the titles that differentiate each display insinuations so that visitors can get to know and create sensitive relationships with the works on display”.  

 Marcus of Otter Coast says that in this second edition of“Mulherio”, he and the other curators chose “to create five solo shows of women who synthesize female action in Brazilian contemporary art: religion, sexualities, art histories, abstractions and concreteness, which make up this creative mosaic brought together in the same physical space open to the Rio public”. Viviane Matesco notes that “women are diverse, but with one position in common: the struggle to live in a world dominated by machismo”. Rafael Fortes Peixotoadds that the objective “is not to bring together artists around an idea, but rather to reaffirm the occupation of this space on the cultural agenda and agenda, both in public institutions and in private spaces, such as Danielian Gallery”. He adds that in 2025 the aim is to celebrate 40 years of actions by Guerrilla Girls, who affirmed for the first time to the world the questioning of the female presence in the arts. Our idea with these solo exhibitions is that each artist’s production can be deepened in this environment of diversity and freedom.” 

The title of "Occupation" is inspired by the newspaper “Woman”, which circulated between 1981 and 1988, and played an important role within the Brazilian feminist movement, and emerged as a result of studies on the female condition in Brazil, with the participation of women as Lisette Lagnado, Inês Castilho, Lélia Gonzalez, Adélia Borges, Maria Rita Kehl, Ruth Cardoso, Carmen da Silva and Heloisa Teixeira (former Buarque de Hollanda) in its 40 editions. 

 A 14cm x 10cm publication accompanies the exhibition, on pink paper, with the curators' texts about each of the exhibitions. 

Service
Exhibition | Mulherio Occupation
From August 08th to October 05th
Monday to Friday from 11:19 to 11:17, Saturday from XNUMX:XNUMX to XNUMX:XNUMX