Daily Archives: April 10, 2015
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Pre-selected artists to ICCo/SP-Arte Prize revealed

The 11th edition of São Paulo International Art Fair is happening, with over 100 galleries from 9 states of Brazil and 16 other countries, besides a wide range of cultural activities. Since 2013, SP-Arte and ICCo – Contemporary Culture Institute award two artists represented by galleries on the fair with an artistic residency. This week, the ten pre-selected artists running for the award were revealed and eight of them were PIPA nominees in different editions. Tomorrow, two of these artists will be declared winners in an event at the São Paulo Biennial Pavilion, during the fair. Know who they are.

Schedule | 16th to 17th April

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.

This week at MAM-Rio

Two new exhibitions enter the circuit this week: “To see and be seen”, an exhibition that proposes a new look over the Museum’s collections, and “O Fim da Matéria” [“The End of the Matter”], an brand new installation by Damián Ortega. At the Cinematheque, the special “Women, literature and cinema in Brazil” presents “Hour of the Star”, film based on book by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. See the full Museum programme, the Cinematheque calendar and screening times and the Education and Art activities.
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Ayrson Heráclito arrives in Senegal for an artistic residency program period

Awarded by the 18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, Ayrson Heráclito arrived this week to Senegal to join the artistic residency program of Raw Material Company. The artist, who researches heritage and the historical, cultural, social and religious influences of the African arrival in Brazil, specially in Bahia, will develop his work during two months in Dacar. Raw Material Company is an art centre focused in the value and growth of artistic and intelectual activity in Africa. Among the activities scheduled during the residency period, there is an exhibition at Raw Material and a performance at Gorée Island, Dacar city district known for the memorial and the Museum dedicated to the memory of African slave traffic.

Felipe Cohen and Marcius Galan take part in group show “Akakor”

(São Paulo, Brazil) The exhibition Akakor looks at acts of charlatanism within the artistic realm. The curators are investigating methods employed by artists to deceive, delude, cheat and con their viewers, making use of such strategies both formally and conceptually in their work. By choosing the charlatan (namely ‘a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skills than he or she possesses; quack’) as the hero of the show, the curators aim to incite reflection on a subject that is not only pertinent to art, but urgent to society. Charlatans, we know, are everywhere.

On view | “Eu quero ver”, solo show by Ivan Grilo

(São Paulo, Brazil) In this show, Ivan Grilo presents a body of works that come out as a development of two researches from recent years: the African cultural heritage on Brazilian society, mainly the knowledge passed on orally through generations, which Grilo observed during his field research in Bahia, 2014, based on a project from the 1930s and 40s by Mario de Andrade. In addition, the continuity of his investigation on Lina Bo Bardi’s work, with a prime focus on the period the architect lived in the Northeast of Brazil.

“Piece by Piece: Building a Collection” premieres a selection of more than 30 artworks

(Kansas, US) “Piece by Piece: Building a Collection”, group show with artworks by Mariana Palma, premieres a selection of more than 30 objects in a range of media by 26 national and international artists from the Kansas City–based collection of Christy and Bill Gautreaux. The exhibition results from an enriching collaboration with the collectors and reflects extensive curatorial research into their energizing and ever-evolving contemporary art collection.

“Pangaea II: New Art From Africa and Latin America” has works by Eduardo Berliner

(London, UK) “Pangaea II: New Art From Africa and Latin America” features the work of 19 emerging artists who provide an expansive insight into the work being produced against the backdrop of present day complexities in their respective homelands. Including sculpture, painting, installation and photography, the show explores the diverse cultural influences and thriving creative practices in the two great continents that were once conjoined as the prehistoric landmass of Pangaea.

“Elements of Beauty”, solo show by Carla Zaccagnini, revisits women’s suffrage in the UK

(Colchester, UK) Carla Zaccagnini’s project, “Elements of Beauty”, revisits the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain a century ago. The installation examines a series of actions that took place in British museums between 1913 and 1914, when over 20 artworks and artefacts at the Manchester Art Gallery and the National Gallery in London ­– most notably, Diego Velázquez’s The Toilet of Venus (or The Rokeby Venus, 1647–51) – were attacked by Suffragettes. The exhibition will include a series of new sculptures based upon the weapons used by the Suffragettes, a book and an audio guide recording each of the 29 damaged objects.

On view | Group show “Imagine Brazil”

(São Paulo, Brazil) Curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar Kvaran and Thierry Raspail, after months of research in Brazil, designed this exhibition. Fourteen young artists were asked, in turn, to invite an established artist whom they considered to be a reference or someone whose work was similar to their own and to whom they wished to pay tribute. Therefore, Imagine Brazil exhibits the work of 27 artists in total.

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