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editorial [page 8]
foreigner, from 2011, in this Biennial and on maria hirszman is a journalist and art
RETROSPECTIVES our cover, is not random. It shows a previous critic. She worked at Jornal da Tarde and
alert, which today is completed with the O Estado de São Paulo. She is a researcher
This edition brings an accurate critique of presentation of the unmissable installation in art history, with a master’s degree from
the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, which resulted by Ayrson Heráclito and Tiganá Santana, USP. For this issue, Maria writes about the
in a pleasant surprise, both in its impeccable Forest of Endless, with the exhibition by the 35th Bienal de São Paulo and three of its
exhibition proposal and in the choice of collective Zumví – Arquivo Aro Fotográfico, highlights: Ana Pi, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro
different representatives of contemporary created in the 1990s by young black people and Luana Vitra.
culture, many of them completely unknown from the outskirts of Salvador, and whose
to the general public. work is now eloquently recognized in the award brazilian academy of art critics [pages 10 and 11]
We can celebrate! We are witnessing an exhibition. Or the scenes of Bispo do Rosário
effective, and not just theoretical, movement in dialogue with Rosana Paulino. WIN ANTÔNIO BENTO
on the part of cultural and educational The edition also includes several of the AWARD FROM ABCA
institutions, on the importance of recognizing very important exhibitions that speak Two certainties guide these meetings:
national and international culture as a result to the spirit of the Biennale during this creating bridges and believing
of its stories, its memories, its color. period, as well as the interview with the that art focuses the knowledge
Before the Pandemic, a search for French historian, Anne Lafont, dedicated of subjects of their time
true independence from the canons was to studying the place of black people in the by patricia rousseaux
already visible, in exhibitions such as ai-5 history of French art.
50 Years – Not finished yet, at the Tomie As long as we are able to speak, write and i would like to thank on behalf of
Ohtake Institute; Radical Women, at the produce works of art and encounter them, myself and the arte!brasileiros teams
Pinacoteca; Afro-Atlantic Stories, in masp we will be free. Such is his radical autonomy. who passed through here during these
and to, at 32a 2016 São Paulo Biennial, 12 years for the Antônio Bento Prize,
living uncertainty. Shortly thereaf er, any collaborators [page 6] awarded by the Brazilian Academy
and all advances suffered a setback that Issue 64. September October November of Art Critics (abca), in 2019, to
submerged us, perplexed in the regression, 2023. Cover: Sidney Amaral, O estrangeiro, Arte!Brasileiros Seminars and which will
during the last five years. 2011. Belonging to the Banco Itaú Collection. be delivered on Tuesday, October 3, 2023,
A lot was lost, but we can celebrate Photo by Sérgio Guerini, Courtesy A&D at Sesc Vila Mariana.
that the power of the manifestations of claudinei roberto da silva is a professor, The Seminars emerged in 2010,
collectives and social leaders alongside art curator and visual artist. He coordinated, as an initiative with the magazine
and their transformative force were able to among others, the educational aspects of arte!brasileiros, at that time only printed,
impose themselves on erasure maneuvers. the Afro Brasil Museum. He is part of the bilingual, and distributed in Brazil and
I repeat here the words with which I Art Commission of the São Paulo Museum in ten important cities around the world,
opened the I Latin American Seminar: of Modern Art, where he was co-curator, through Itamaraty’s direct mail, in
Reports, Memory and Reparation, held at in 2022, of the 37th Panorama of Brazilian partnership with the Ministry
the beginning of August this year, in the Art. In this edition, he writes a review of the of Foreign Affairs.
city of Buenos Aires, in collaboration with 35th São Paulo Biennial. Two certainties guide the effort to
bienalsur. Paraphrasing Markus Gabriel, a hold these meetings. First, create
young German philosopher, in The Power of fabio cypriano, art critic and journalist, bridges. Understanding the importance
Art, “art is what is at the origin of our humanity, is director of the Faculty of Philosophy, of bringing to Brazil key professionals
of our conception as differentiated animals. Communication, Letters and Arts at from the contemporary art and culture
Art has an essence and this essence is in PUC-SP and is part of the editorial board circuit, and also capable of coming into
permanent conflict with other forces.” of arte!brasileiros. In this issue, he writes a contact, more directly, with an impactful
With those of stagnant institutions, of review of the 35th Bienal and writes about national production, far from what was
ignorant elitism. Those of the power of the museum-house-school Acervo da still understood until recently – apart
fascism, which men (not all of them) insist on Laje, in Salvador, present in five important from icons such as Tarsila do Amaral,
exercising. From global trends of economic exhibitions in recent years. Maria Martins, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica,
control and the forces of the speculative art Cildo Meireles, Tunga, Amílcar de Castro
market, for example. jotabê medeiros is a reporter and –, as the culture of exotics. Effective anti-
Thus, its essence bursts forth, no matter biographer, among others, of the singer hegemonic and decolonial movements
the time, reinvents itself and, with its Belchior. He was a reporter for O Estado date back no more than ten years. Only
freedom and autonomy by nature, obliquely, de S.Paulo and Folha de S.Paulo, assistant today do Rubens Valentins or Lorenzatos
controls power. editor at Veja SP, editor at TV Gazeta and gain international space.
Using different supports: wood, brick, Carta Capital. Jotabê writes a report on The second is to believe that art
clay, earth, water, seeds, cloth, the body the exhibition ReFundação, on display at concentrates the knowledge of subjects
and even paint, artists developed a strong the ReOcupa gallery, in São Paulo. of their time. It is a kind of tip of the
movement against hegemonic theories, iceberg, where each work and each
which for centuries have tried to erase leonor amarante is a journalist, curator exhibition allows us to create meanings
black bodies, the place and strength of and editor. She worked at Jornal O Estado that speak of philosophy, memory,
women, the freedom in gender identity. de S.Paulo, Veja magazine, TV Cultura and forgetfulness, belonging and, thus,
The destruction of nature. Memorial da América Latina. Here, among create culture. Without art, without
In this 35th Biennale, the choice of others, she writes about Marta Minujín’s literature, humanity does not
different subjects of their time created a exhibition; about the 20 years of A Gentil recognize itself.
timeless game, a work of reflection on what Carioca; and talks with French critic Our Seminars on the role of museums,
has already been said and what is said. The Jacques Leenhardt about Wifredo Lam’s on Cultural Management, on the
presence of the work of Sidney Amaral, The participation in the 35th São Paulo Biennial. Crossings of art, in Defense of Culture
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