Emoção de lidar
Group show at Quadra Galeria (São Paulo, Brasil)
Curated by Clarissa Diniz
With works by Tadáskía
March 4 – April 29, 2023
Read the text by Clarisse Diniz
List of artists:
Ana Cláudia Almeida, Ana Matheus Abbade, Anna Maria Maiolino, Arorá, Carla Santana, Celeida Tostes, Cyshimi, Diambe, Flora Rebollo, Iagor Peres, Josi, Nise da Silveira and Leon Hirszman, Pablo Lobato, Pedro Victor Brandão, Tadáskía
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo – MAC USP, São Paulo
a partir de 18.03.2023
No programa curatorial do MAC USP, o 7o e o 6o andares são destinados à exibição da coleção permanente. Nesta exposição, o visitante pode compreender as principais características do acervo, ao mesmo tempo em que a coleção pode ser revisitada e atualizada a partir de questões contemporâneas. Com duração de cinco anos, a mostra permite ao Museu cumprir seu papel universitário, tornando-se espaço de formação em vários níveis e de debate crítico sobre a história das artes visuais.
Para a comemoração dos 60 anos do MAC USP, esta nova exposição propõe uma reflexão sobre quais obras e quais artistas presentes no acervo contam sobre a experiência histórico-político-social dos séculos 20 e 21, vivida a partir do Brasil. De modo crítico, nesse itinerário, a própria formação do acervo está imersa nessa narrativa.
A mostra, concebida por um grupo de seis curadores, em diálogo com um comitê consultivo, apresenta três eixos norteadores que se entrelaçam, em sete agrupamentos, divididos nos dois andares expositivos. Esses eixos, de certo modo, costuram as várias partes da exposição: a institucionalização do Museu, a arte como experiência coletiva e a arte como experiência subjetiva. Dentre os três eixos, apenas um deles está identificado por uma sinalização diferente: trata-se do eixo institucional, que nada mais é do que o conjunto das 13 obras doadas pelo magnata estadunidense Nelson Rockefeller para a criação de museus de arte moderna em São Paulo e no Rio de Janeiro. Essa doação foi considerada a base inicial das coleções do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM SP), transferidas para a USP em 1963 – dando origem ao MAC USP. Os outros dois eixos se pautam, respectivamente, pelas experiências coletivas (as lutas políticas e os movimentos sociais) na história dos últimos 150 anos e pelas experiências subjetivas, tais como as relações entre o eu e os outros. Os sete agrupamentos são: Inconsciente (não) livre, Guerra fria, Resistência e Êxodo (7o andar); e Retrato, Apropriação e Violência (6o andar). Eles expressam como essas experiências coletivas ou subjetivas aparecem na coleção do MAC USP.
O visitante verá que algumas obras e/ou conjunto de obras possuem em suas etiquetas um QR Code que leva a textos curtos sobre essas proposições. Por fim, a exposição empresta seu título da coletânea de ensaios do historiador Eric Hobsbawm, publicada em 2013, um ano após a morte desse intelectual que atravessou duas guerras mundiais e viu a ascensão dos regimes totalitários no continente europeu. Hobsbawm teve sua vida marcada pelo exílio e sempre enfrentou a árdua tarefa de indagar o futuro.
Arte Natureza: Ressignificar para viver
18th Bienal Pavilion – São Paulo’s International Art Festival
April 6th-10th, 2022, Parque Ibirapuera, SP
Curator and journalist Ana Carolina Ralston organizes, at the 18th SP–Arte, an unpublished show entitled ‘Arte Natureza: Ressignificar para viver’, with works by fundamental artists to think about the relationships between art and sustainability
Artists: Caio Reisewitz, Ernesto Neto, Joseph Beuys, Frans Krajcberg, Daiara Tukano, Amelia Toledo, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Bené Fonteles, Daniel Acosta, Deco Adjiman, Henrique Oliveira, Hugo Fortes, Joao Farkas, José Bento, Juliana dos Santos, Luiz Zerbini, Mariana Palma, Paula Costa, Regina Vater, Sonia Gomes and Uyra.
In the curatorship, Ralston proposes, starting from art, a discussion on the idea of ecology, a network in which the link between the kingdoms becomes essential for the continuation of the species. In her words, “resignify everything that surrounds us is the key to the sequence of human life as a part of the enviroment. The transformation of matter, as well as its compensation in other elements, makes balance -and, consequently, our permanence on Earth- possible. Nothing more effective than placing such a dialogue in the middle of two of the main parks in Latin America, where humanity, art and the environment coexist.”
Text by Verónica Stigger (Porto Alegre, 1973), writer, art critic, curator and professor.
Conversations with Caio Reisewitz & curators. (see below)
From the 11 of March, we shall exhibit Recado da Mata, the fourth exhibition by Caio Reisewitz at Galeria Joan Prats. We present 11 photographs, a video, and an audio piece.
Caio Reisewitz has gathered many of the photographs in this exhibition together in response to reading books written by two great thinkers and indigenous leaders working in Brazil today: A queda do céu [The fall of heaven] by Davi Kopenawa with co-authorship from Bruce Albert, and Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo [Ideas to postpone the end of the world] by Ailton Krenak. The title of the exhibition furthermore lends itself from the preface written by anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro for Kopenawa and Bruce Albert’s book who in turn alludes to the tale O recado do morro [The Message of the Hill], by Joao Guimarées Rosa. In the story, a homeless man and a hermit warn the people of the region about a message they claim to have received from Morro da Garça (Hill of Garça) itself. In a group of 7 men, one of them will be killed through treason. In the preface Viveiros de Castro begins with the idea of imminent death proclaimed by nature, now it is not from the voice of the hill but through the voice of the jungle. The jungle warns us that it is being exterminated by man; this is the message that Caio Reisewitz attempts to convey in his photographs.
One of the most recent works presented in the exhibition by Caio Reisewitz is Ambé, whose title much like the other works displayed (excluding Penedo), refers to a place name of Tupí origin. Ambé is the name of a rural community 80km from the center of Macapá in Amapá. However, in the Amazon region it also means that which is rugged, frizzy and rough. Much like the vast majority of Reisewitz’s works, in this photograph we are unable to distinguish human presence. We see only a thick tangle of branches, trunks and leaves characteristic of the Amazon rainforest. Nevertheless, the inability to distinguish human presence in the jungle does not mean it is uninhabited. The indigenous placename reminds us that for Amerindians the jungle is continuously full of a multiplicity of beings that remain invisible to us (…). By pasting fragments of different photographs, overlaying them, and re-photographing them with colour manipulation, provides the scene with a bluish tint. In Ambé, Reisewitz creates an unreal almost spectral environment; he shows an image of a dream or a vision of a shaman. Despite our inability to see the invisible beings of the jungle we are still able to sense their presence (…).
Always concerned about man’s rampant exploitation of nature and its dire consequences, Caio Reisewitz, in photographs such as Tipioca and Upurupã, finds a way to make this message even more eloquent, more visible. He overlaps an image of the jungle with part of the Palácio Del Planalto (the seat of Brazil’s federal executive power) which we glimpse at like a ghost or apparition floating menacingly. We must not ignore that this exhibition takes place at a time when the government is currently under the rule of President Jair Bolsonaro. Jair Bolsonaro is an admitted accomplice to the greatest devastation ever imposed on the Amazon and Pantanal in recent history. Deforestation reached its highest level since 2008. Additionally, there have been repeated attacks against the indigenous population, their territories and their given rights which were stipulated in the 1988 Constitution. In the last two years, several Brazilian cities including those in Southeast and South have been covered by smoke for days dye to forest fires. It is no longer just a message, but a loud cry of help from the jungle.
Caio Reisewitz (São Paulo, 1967) lives and works in São Paulo. He is one of the most important photographers from Brazil; he has focused his work on the difficult relationship between nature and people. Recent individual exhibitions include: Biblioteca, Museo de Antioquia, Colombia (2018); Altamira, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2017); Ingenios de hoy, Photoespaña, Museo de Albacete (2016); Disorder, Maison Europeénne de la Photographie, Paris and Florestas, favelas e falcatruas, Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam (2015); Caio Reisewitz, ICP – International Center of Photography, New York (2014). He has participated in Biennale de l’Image Tangible, Paris (2018); The Guangzhou Image Triennial (2017); Bienal de Curitiba, Brazil (2015 and 2013); Biennial Daegu Photo, South Korea (2014), Project LARA Latin American Roaming Artist, Colombia (2013), Nanjing Biennale (2010), Bienal del Fin del Mundo of Ushuaia, Argentina (2009 and 2007), Venice Biennale (2005) representing Brazil, and in São Paulo Art Biennial (2004). His work has been shown in international arts centers, such as Beijing Minsheng Art Museum; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; MARCO, Vigo; CAAC, Seville; MUSAC, León; Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Goiás, Goiania; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Bahia; Casa da Imagem, OCA, São Paulo; CCBB, Rio de Janeiro and Grand Palais, Paris; amongst others.
Friday, April 30th, 6 pm – Online (in Spanish and Portuguese) via this Link
‘Caio Reisewitz y la crisis ambiental y forestal en el contexto del arte contemporáneo’
Conversation with Paula Alzugaray (editor and independent curator specialised in video art), Orlando Maneschy (professor at UFPA-Federal University of Pará, Amazônia) and Caio Reisewitz (artist)
Approximate duration: 50 minutes
Friday, May 7th, 7 pm – Galeria Joan Prats (confirm attendance via galeria@galeriajoanprats.com) and online (in Spanish) via this Link
‘Fotografía contemporánea en el contexto actual y coleccionismo’
Conversation with Caio Reisewitz (artist), Moritz Neumüller (curator and critic specialised in the mediums of photography and digital art) and Alejandro Castellote (curator of photography)
Approximate duration: 50 minutes
Pina Luz Pinacoteca de São Paulo
25.11.2017 – 5.3.2018
Oito fotografias de Caio Reisewitz, recentemente adquiridas pela Pinacoteca por meio de doação feita durante a SP-Arte 2016, serão expostas na sala A. Trata-se de uma série intitulada Altamira, em que o artista documenta a região da floresta de Belo Monte, delimitada pelo rio Xingú, que desaparecerá ao término da construção da terceira maior hidrelétrica do mundo na região. As fotografias mostram uma natureza intocada, onde a presença humana parece não existir, expondo o paradoxo de que em breve a floresta não estará mais lá. O trabalho de Reisewitz será mostrado ao lado da sala de pinturas de paisagem da mostra de longa duração da Pina, permitindo a reflexão sobre a representação da natureza no século XIX e na contemporaneidade.