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galleries will present the works of a few contemporary artists, installation Inconstância Material, in which the artist turns a
Silvia Cintra + Box 4 will show works by Cinthia Marcelle and worker into the central figure of the public attention, subverting
Laercio Redondo; Leme will display the works of Jaime Lauriano conventional power relations.
and Vivian Caccuri; while Anita Schwartz brings the works of
Wanda Pimentel. In the POSITIONS section, which features SEMINAR CONTEMPORARY ART AND REALITY | PAGES 28 TO 31
designed spaces for individual artists, Marilia Razuk gallery
the historic wing of the fair, Simões de Assis Gallery shows a ART IN DIALOGUE
shows an installation by Ana Luiza Dias Batista, while in SURVEY,
2010). Another Brazilian participation is through an Italian WITH REALITY
series of works by Uruguayan artist Carmelo Arden Quin (1913-
gallery, the Prometeo Gallery di Ida Pidani, which features works
by Beto Shwafaty. The long-awaited reform of the Miami Beach IV ARTE!Brasileiros Seminar BRINGS TOGETHER NATIONAL
Convention Centre, home of the fair since its debut, should be AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS TO DISCUSS UNCERTAINTY AND
ready only for the 2018 edition. Like the galleries, several Miami
art institutions also prepare large temporary exhibitions, in REPRESENTATIONS OF REALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART
order to take advantage of the fair that attracts thousands of
visitors, collectors, artists and curators to the city. The Pérez BY MARIANA TESSITORE PHOTOS MARINA MALHEIROS
Art Museum Miami (PAMM), for example, has Julio Le Parc:
Form into Action, the Susan Hiller: Lost and Found exhibition HOW CAN ART AFFECT REALITY? The question that
and a number of David Reed paintings. accompanies the History of Art has evolved into an even
more complex issue in the 21st century when technological
advances are dissipating the boundaries between the virtual
SÃO PAULO and real world. This is one of the questions that permeated
the discussions at the IV ARTE! Brasileiros International Seminar that
20TH FESTIVAL VIDEOBRASIL took place in the Auditório do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, last
TO BE HELD AT NEW SESC VENUE September 8th.
The event was inaugurated by the Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar,
Traditionally held on SESC Pompeia, the Festival International who presented some of his major works. In his first talk, the
SESC_Videobrasil reaches its 20th edition with a novelty. The artist addressed the role of Art: “Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian
festival will be held between October 2017 and January 2018 at writer who I truly admire, says that Art is man’s constant effort
SESC 24 de Maio (a new SESC venue), designed by Paulo Mendes to change reality. How do we change reality? I don’t know. And
da Rocha, winner of some of the world main architecture that’s the reason I’m an artist.”
awards, like Pritzker, Mies van der Rohe and Golden Lion. Set Jaar presented the memorial he built in homage to the victims
to open later this year, the new Sesc venue is located on the of the nuclear disaster that occurred in the Japanese city
corner of Dom José de Barros St. with 24 de Maio St., and is of Fukushima, in 2011. He has visited the site five times, in
part of an initiative to revitalize São Paulo downtown area. As an effort to understand what in fact transpired there. In
in its 19th edition, the festival will also take place in Galpão VB, one of this trips, the artist has been to a building that once
the headquarters for the Videobrasil Cultural Association. The was a school, there, students perished, unable to escape
exhibition maintains its main subject focus on global South, a the fatal accident. Inside the school, one could still see the
field of research related to cultural condition, economic and chalkboards - what inspired the artist: “I was intrigued by
marginalized countries and territories policy. For the 2017 those chalkboards and a thought arose in my mind: how many
edition, 50 artists will have their work selected among the hours had these students remained in front of these objects,
assets of the institution. Videobrasil director Solange Farks will trying to understand and change the world? It was then that I
act as general curator. Ana Pato, Beatriz Lemos, Diego Matos realized that these chalkboards were precious, they contained
and João Laia will also join the festival, as guest curators. the whole knowledge these kids have acquired during their
short lives.” The fifteen chalkboards found there were placed
in his memorial. Every three minutes, the chalkboards are
SÃO PAULO illuminated and the word Umashimenkana - the name of a
Japanese poem that talks about the power of the life that
CCBB SHOWS HÉCTOR ZAMORA EXHIBITION was before the disaster.
Immigration is also a common theme in the work of the artist.
Héctor Zamora, a Mexican artist living in Lisbon, is known for Jaar also referred to his project exhibited in 1995 in Finland,
his large-scale works, which often invite the audience to engage. where he gathered one million blank passports to call attention
His creations will be shown on Dinâmica Não Linear exhibition, to the exclusive and restrictionist immigration policy adopted
on view until January 2, 2017, at Centro Cultural Banco do by that country. During this year’s Basel Art Fair, Alfredo Jaar
Brasil, in São Paulo. Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, the presented a project entitled The Gift, which summoned the
retrospective exhibition displays the past 16 years of the artist’s audience to make a donation to MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid
output in 24 works. Consisting of video installations, drawings, Station), an NGO that has rescued more than 12,000 lives in
three-dimensional sculptures and photographs, the show fills migratory routes at sea.
four floors of CCBB historical building, and touches on subjects The artist finished his lecture addressing the ethical use of
like the occupation of public space and the predominance images. Mentioning the photograph of the Syrian refugee boy
of informal economy. Central to the exhibition is the video Alan Kurdi, dead in a Turkish beach in September last year,
performance Ordre et Progrès, held earlier this year, at Tokyo displayed on the front page of most newspapers of the world,
Palais, in Paris. In this piece, the artist makes a critique of Jaar pointed out how the published photograph changed part
the concept of exoticism. The show also includes the video of the debate on the refugees in Europe.

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