Daniel Acosta is participating on PIPA Prize for the first time this year.
Recently, Acosta had his third collaboration to Bienal do Merscosul with “Replikashelvesystem”, a sculpture/furniture to the Reading Room at Casa M, besides “Multipraça”, a set of three sculptures/furnitures as permanent works at SESC Bom Retiro.
Besides his activities as an artist, is a Professor of Sculpture at Universidade Federal de Pelotas.
On this video, the artist talks about the importance of the audience for the production of an artist, and what his work means to him. And says: “I think of art as something public. Fully public.”
Watch the interview with Daniel Acosta:
Since the first year of the prize PIPA, in 2010, Matrioska Filmes produces video-interviews with the PIPA nominees.
Pointing out the importance of this production, MAM-Rio’s curator, Luiz Camillo Osorio, says:
When PIPA invited Matrioska film production to make these videos, its goal was to build a small database on Brazilian contemporary art. If the prize aims to recognize and distinguish, the building of a contemporary memory looked for an amplified analysis of the circuit. (…)
We are sure that the continuity of these records and their combination with the renewal of the artists’ pages – that has to be made in partnership with the artists and their respective galleries – will maximize the relevance of this database. A growing number of interested people, from researchers to collectors, have began using the PIPA website for the benefit of all. – extract from the text “Hunger for files”
All videos produced by Matrioska for PIPA can be find at the page Videos.