José Damasceno and Mona Lisa’s smile
It gives a certain relief to enter José Damasceno’s exhibition, Moto-continuo, at Estação Pinacoteca, in such an unfavorable context, when a CPI unveils all...
New collaboration platforms for contemporary art seek to revise Biennials
Diana Wechsler, Argentine researcher at Conicet (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research) and director of the art and culture area at the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), has been following BIENALSUR since its inception and now in its second edition, comments on the results. this challenge
A place where to remember is to act
Founded in the 1940s by progressive Jews, Casa do Povo overcomes 30 years of crisis and consolidates itself as a prolific cultural center, experimental space of coexistence and performance of multidisciplinary artistic collectives and autonomous movements
Transarte Institute: for a LGBTQ+ future
Transarte is transformed from a gallery into an institute, with a definitive space to ensure the artistic production of the community LGBTQ+
A triennial in progress
In the midst of a pandemic and political crisis context, what are the curatorial and exhibition possibilities? This was one of the questions that...
Nheë Nheë nheë, genealogy of the tropical leisure
Ludic, brave and existential, Márcio Almeida recommends the leisure to come to a creative moment of truth
Witnesses of evil, of good, of life
Works and trajectories of Letizia Battaglia and Sergio Larrain are at exhibitions at the Moreira Salles Institute in São Paulo
The gaping reality in the work by Guerreiro do Divino Amor
Winner of the 2019 Pipa Prize, the artist has been developing the Superfictions series for about 15 years, through which he deals with profound social and symbolic issues, from media manipulation to colonialism, from social segregation to the power of the neo-Pentecostal churches, from state violence to power of marketing and market
Photography of the memory
With works on the resistance to the Salazarist dictatorship in Portugal, Operation Condor in South America and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Portuguese photographer João Pina deals with, from records, the past history and trauma