Brazil

ISAAC JULIEN: LINA BO BARDI—A MARVELLOUS ENTANGLEMENT

“A Marvellous Entanglement” at the Yale School of Architecture is the latest presentation of British filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien’s 2019 film installation, which explores the life and work of Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi, a leading figure in post-war modernism.

ABRAHAM PALATNIK: SEISMOGRAPH OF COLOR

Nara Roesler presents the first retrospective of Brazilian artist Abraham Palatnik (1928-2020) in New York. Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, it presents a selection of works that reveal Palatnik’s fundamental role in Brazilian art in the second half of the twentieth century. It also highlights the relevance and pioneer character of his production in conceptualizing works of visual art as force fields, mediums of energy, and vectors of chromatic dynamism.

AAA – ANTHOLOGY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Bergamin & Gomide and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel present «AAA – Anthology of Art and Architecture», an online exhibition curated by Sol Camacho, urbanist, architect, Principal at RADDAR Architecture, and Cultural Director of Instituto Bardi / Casa de Vidro. The show features more than 100 works by Brazilian artists, architects and designers, proposing a reflection on the social function, methods and history of architecture.

DEANA LAWSON: CENTROPY -AS PART OF THE 34TH BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO

For the Bienal, Lawson was invited to add another city to the already long list of places she has visited and photographed: Salvador, Bahia, one of the regions in Brazil where the presence of African rites, culture and music is more present. In a strongly authorial way, Lawson’s photographs, which frequently expand toward the theatrical and feature ritualistic objects or props, synthetize a historical, tragic but also fertilizing process of displacements and creolization, which in the context of the 34th Bienal is particularly significant.

Berna Reale, “Camuflagem #01” (Camouflage #01),2018. Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo and New York.

AGAINST, AGAIN: ART UNDER ATTACK IN BRAZIL

The exhibition «Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil» addresses the present transnational wave of authoritarianism by featuring a number of art practices that have responded to oppression in Brazil. Since the rise of a conservative political movement in the last few years that resulted in the election of a far-right president in 2018, threats and attacks against politicians, activists, intellectuals and artists have skyrocketed.

Paulo Nazareth:melee

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami) presents the first solo US museum exhibition for Paulo Nazareth (b. 1977). «Melee» spans Nazareth’s work across mediums, including monumental and ephemeral sculpture, photography, video, and installations. Drawing on his Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous heritages, Nazareth brings the histories of marginalized groups into focus in an exhibition that is relevant to both the global and local Brazilian diaspora, while speaking to broad political conversations on issues of injustice and oppression.