Tag: Week of 22
“Desvairar 22” invites the public to an exercise in historical imagination
On view at Sesc Pinheiros until January 2023, the exhibition brings together an Egyptian sarcophagus, a carnival float, works of visual art, texts, music, videos and historical documents to rethink important events of 1922
A nakoada for art
On display until November 27, "Nakoada" starts from Baniwa indigenous ethics to think about future perspectives from the Modern Art Week
Reappropriating to repair: the centenary of the Week of 22 from a decolonial perspective
Exhibitions, books and debates shed light on the triggering point of the Brazilian historical avant-garde from issues that did not exist for artists of the time, such as issues of race, ethnicity and gender.
Exuberant visuals in a critical tone
Fabio Cypriano writes a review of the exhibition “Raio-que o parte: fictions of the modern in Brazil”, at Sesc 24 de Maio
Notes on the Group of Five: a hint of melancholy in the centenary of the Week
Group of Five is a drawing that Anita Malfatti produced in the second half of 1922, a few months after the Modern Art Week. In it, the artist, in addition to portraying herself lying on...
What to read in 2022?
The centenary of the 1922 Modern Art Week and the hundredth anniversary of the release of one of the most important novels of the 20th century - James Joyce's Ulysses - coexist with a moment...
“Modern Where? Modern When?”: Aracy Amaral and Regina Teixeira de Barros talk about exhibition...
A arte!brasileiros visited the exhibition, on view until December 2021, and talked with the curators to understand more deeply the proposed concepts and reflections; Watch the video
Arte!Afro-Brazilians
“Afro-Brazilian art, by the way, is not a style, it is not an avant-garde, not even a social or artistic movement; is the art of Brazil – if not pleonasm”, writes researcher Renato Araújo in an article for the arte!brasileiros
