Alfredo Volpi

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ARTISTAS FUERA DEL EJE (Y AMIGOS) EN LAS BIENALES

La exposición “Reversos e Transversos: artistas fora do eixo (e amigos) nas bienais” redimensiona la necesidad de una revisión crítica de la representatividad de la cultura popular en algunas de las bienales de arte internacionales celebradas en las últimas siete décadas. Curada por Ayrson Heráclito y organizada por la Galeria Estação, reúne obras de 42 nombres consagrados dentro y fuera del país.

Visions of Brazil: Reimagining Modernity from Tarsila to Sonia. Curated by Sofia Gotti. Installation view, 2019. Blum & Poe, New York. Courtesy of the artists or Estates and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo. Photo: Genevieve Hanson

Visions of Brazil:reimagining Modernity From Tarsila to Sonia

«Visions of Brazil: Reimagining Modernity from Tarsila to Sonia» positions works by Brazilian Modernists (such as Tarsila do Amaral and Alfredo Volpi) alongside others made by artists working outside of Modernism’s canonical time bracket (Sonia Gomes, Leonilson), allowing us to deconstruct what Modernism may stand for; and by rooting this rereading in politics, race, and class, we may support a visual narrative of Brazilian Modernism suspended on diversity and equality.