Next week we will be announcing the PIPA and PIPA Popular Vote Exhibition 2014. In the running for this edition’s prizes are Alice Miceli, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Thiago Martins de Melo and Wagner Malta Tavares. See what the winners are entitled to, the chracteristics of each category, previous editions winners and how you can help deciding the Popular Vote winner.
Check out the full agenda for this week of exhibitions and events related to PIPA artists, Nominating Committee members, Board members, MAM-Rio and relevant information about art in Brazil and abroad.
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Paper copies of famous artworks were placed in a box with crickets by Vanderlei Lopes in his solo show “Grilagem” on view through next Sunday. Take the weekend to visit on your favourite artist at the PIPA finalists exhibition. The show goes on view through the 16th, but voting closes this Sunday. Also on view at the Museum are shows “Thresholds”, with mostly photographic pieces frm the Joaquim Paiva collection, and the new acquisitions from the Gilberto Chateaubriand collection, an opportunity for the public to perceive the exuberance and diversity, inherent to the main Brazilian art collector. See the full Museum programme, the Cinematheque calendar and screening times and the Education and Art activities.
(Madrid, Spain) In a reference to the long-forgotten class struggles of early capitalism, the title of the exhibition suggests an inquiry into “really useful knowledge” from a contemporary perspective. The exhibition endeavours to position the notion of critical pedagogy as a crucial element in collective struggles, and explore the tension between individual and social emancipation through education with examples that are both historical and current, and their relation to organisational forms capable of leading unified resistance to the reproduction of capital.
(Wiesbaden, Germany) For the first time were entrusted to a young São Paulo curator the compilation and selection of Brazilian artists for an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden. Paulo Miyada was invited to specifically design his group show, whose field of view comprises the richness and diversity of the Brazilian art scene. “The part that doesn’t belong to you, Wiesbaden” comprises works by eight artists that span a variety of medias.
(San Francisco, US) Set against the background of the Anthropocene discourse and its extended cultural and social debates, Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible? focuses on landscape, nature, and gardens by posing the question: What is the mirror effect between landscape and technology, and how does each inform how we understand and experience ourselves and others?
(New Orleans, US) “Prospect 3” is an international contemporary art biennial, for which 58 artists were selected and produced new works and site-specific installations. For her part, Lucia Koch presents “Mood Disorder”, comprising 23 variously sized sheets of glass and acrylic painted with color gradients. They filter the exhibition space natural light and thus create a sense of drama or “mood”on the floors and walls.
(Athens, Greece) The artists participating in the exhibition “The Space Between” explore our relationship with the physical, visual and psychological parameters of urban space. They look at borders and ways through them. They talk about the manner in which urbanity is experiential, how it can transform, alienate or contain and simultaneously touch our lives or even set us free.
(Salvador, Brazil) Known for his experimental, diverse use of methods and materials, leading to new imagery, José Bechara is one of the 1990s Brazilian painting representatives. Having started mostly with painting, his trajectory has been developing a poetic language that spans sculpture and installation, as well as drawings and paintings, carrying out works in a direct dialogue to architecture.
(São Paulo, Brazil) The event proposes a meeting point between the most current productions and the public who always wanted to understand and buy art from their time, without needing to visit dozens of galleries. At PARTE, the chosen galleries display and sell artworks from their collections. It is the first and only fair in Brazil exclusively dedicated to contemporary art. A place to present, know and ultimately, take home the finest recent artistic productions.