PIPA Prize’s YouTube Channel now features six new videos with PIPA Prize nominees. Get to know, in a series of exclusive interviews produced by Do Rio Filmes, the techniques, inspirations and careers of Ana Luisa Santos, André Ricardo, Arthur Chaves, Fabrício Lopez, Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Vicente de Mello.
Ana Luisa Santos
“I believe art is a political necessity; it’s a need to act upon the world”, defends Ana Luisa Santos, nominated for PIPA Prize for the first time this year. The belief makes perfect sense when confronted with the artist’s practice: using performance as her primary medium, Santos’ main concern is to investigate the relationship with the other in the context of public space.
See Ana Luisa Santos’ page to learn more about his career, view images of his works and read critical texts.
André Ricardo
André Ricardo, nominated for PIPA Prize for the first time in this edition, doesn’t do themes: instead, he tries to immerse himself in his creative process and see what comes from that. The method has had a great impact on the transformation of his work, which went from figurative painting, in 2010 and 2011, to mainly abstract shapes, as seen in his most recent work, case of “Elemento Vazado”.
See André Ricardo‘s page to learn more about his career, view images of his works and read critical texts.
Arthur Chaves
See Arthur Chaves‘ page to learn more about his career, view images of his works and read critical texts.
Fabrício Lopez
“My work is my origin. It’s built from the forged memory of the coastal city of Santos, from the atmosphere which surrounds the historic center, the harbour, the city’s flow, all dictated by the tide,” says Fabrício Lopez. Nominated for PIPA Prize for the second time this year – the first was in the beginning of the Prize, in 2010 –, the artist expresses all of this imaginary through the “traditional practices” of painting and woodcut, as he puts it himself.
See Fabrício Lopez‘s page to learn more about his career, view images of his works and read critical texts.
Tiago Carneiro da Cunha
The work of Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, nominated for PIPA Prize for the first time this year, is in constant transformation. He has worked with media so diverse as illustration, comics, theater, opera and performance before actually assuming himself as visual artist. When it comes to techniques, he went from making paper, resin and ceramic sculptures to oil painting. The multitude of experiences hides a certain repetition of themes and interests, such as the failure of the “Brazilian civilizational project.” “In the end, it’s all an excuse to keep myself interested and working,” he says.
See Tiago Carneiro da Cunha‘s page to learn more about his career, view images of his works and read critical texts.
Vicente de Mello
In spite of being a photographer, Vicente de Mello‘s main artistic interest is not reality. Instead, he’s passionate about whatever lies between the real world and his own subjectivity. The quest for this so-called “transvision” has generated projects such as “Galactica”, from 2012, which turns lamps and chandeliers into spacecrafts and objects that would seem more fitting in NASA workspaces, or “Ultramarine”, from 2015, in which Mello recreated “the other side of the sea”.
See Vicente de Mello‘s page to learn more about his career, view images of his works and read critical texts.
Besides them, another fourteen video-interviews with PIPA Prize 2017 nominees have been published. Watch them here.