Notes on the 34th São Paulo Bienal, by Luiz Camillo Osorio Traslated by Rebecca Atkinson “Though it’s dark, still I sing.” Appropriating this verse by Thiago de Mello, the team of curators of the São Paulo Bienial – Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Paulo Miyada, Carla Zaccagnini, Francesco Stocchi and Ruth Estévez – have attempted to translate…
Read the conversation between Luiz Camillo Osorio, PIPA Institute’s curator, and Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, one of the Selected artists of PIPA Prize 2021: LCO – Castiel, let’s start with your education in Espírito Santo, and later in São Paulo. Despite being very young, your work shows a shared background of Clinical Psychology, visual arts and Afro-Brazilian spirituality….
Conversation between Luiz Camillo Osorio and Ventura Profana, one of the elected artists of PIPA Prize 2021: 1 – Where did it all begin? How and when did the transformation into Ventura Profana as an artist and performer happen? Which artists, historical or contemporary, have inspired you into taking that jump? At first, there was…
Conversation between Luiz Camillo Osorio and Marcela Bonfim, one of the Selected artists of PIPA Prize 2021: 1 – You graduated in Economics in São Paulo. And then you went to Rondônia. How did you decide to become an artist? I believe it wasn’t a decision per se. But moving to Porto Velho, in 2010, was. It was…
Read the Conversation between Luiz Camillo Osorio, the curator of PIPA Institute, and Denilson Baniwa, one of the Selected artists of PIPA Prize 2021: 1 – Denilson, in 2019 you and I had the first conversation ever published by PIPA after you won PIPA Online that year. Now you’re one of the winners of the main…
1 – Tell me about your education and how it was developed so that your production would incorporate elements of moviemaking, visual arts, computer sciences and theatre. I started producing at a very young age, exploring painting within a classic approach and a rigorous study of the human figure. In university, that interest broadened into…
The two curators evaluate how the digital increasing interferes in the exhibitions elaboration
The curator of the PIPA Institute analyzes in the new text of his column two virtual exhibitions and recent initiatives from the artistic world that raise discussions about the environmental catastrophe that we urgently experience today
The English curator died on February 1st. Osorio publishes an interview with Brett made in 1997 as a tribute to him
