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Stuttgart, BWG, Germany, 1964.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
PIPA 2014 nominee.
Bruno Schultze was born in Germany in 1964 and grew up in São Paulo. After obtaining a degree in Communications in 1990, he worked as a photographer for 10 years in Munich. During this period, Schultze developed an interest in the representation of culture in landscape. Schultze began exhibiting and had a show of photos taken in Brazil at the Brazilian Consulate in Munich. Bruno also produced documentary films focused on Brazil, its nature, and its people.
Website: www.brunoschultze.carbonmade.com.
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Schultze returned to Brazil in 2002 and focused his photographic research on the unveiling of the Brazilian soul. The photographs were taken in the Brazilian inland and culminated in the research for his Master of Visual Arts degree at the Art School of the University of São Paulo in 2012. The research is a poetic interpretation of the cosmology of the Guarani Indians, and the inaugural exhibition took place at the Contemporary Art Museum of São Paulo in November 2012.
By invitation of Vanderbilt University (USA) in 2013, Bruno lectured about his work in a rapprochement symposium between the University of São Paulo and the Institution. As a result of his Master’s research, Schultze produced the art book Oguatá Pora, with a focus on the relation of man vs nature, having as its primordial example the relationship between the indigenous Guarani population and its environment.
In 2013, Bruno exhibited as a guest artist in “Natural / Natural – Landscape and Art,” an exposition headed by the artist Ana Maria Tavares in the Dragão do Mar Cultural Centre in Fortaleza and in the city of Juazeiro in Ceará, Brazil. In the same year, he received the Honour Award of Merit from the Imperial Heritage Arts Palace, Institute of Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, and the Ministry of Culture, and his works were showcased in the group exhibition of the honoured artists at the Imperial Palace in Rio de Janeiro in 2014.
From car trips with my family to the Brazilian south and southeast during my childhood, I remember clearly the car window mediating the encounter between the warm family feeling with strong German roots inside the car on one hand, and the Brazilian universe with its beauties and brutalities on the other. The outside of the car exerted its fascination on me. Everything across the window had its magic, and today I realize that this magic involved the whole event. My work seeks to expand that window. The focus is on what Michel Foucault calls heterotopia, a space of otherness, a space that is neither here nor there, which is both physical and mental, which works on non-hegemonic conditions. In other words, according to Foucault, it is an area with multiple layers of meaning or relation to other places, a complexity which can not be seen immediately.
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