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
Studo para uma Cosmogonia Supercomplexa Metropolitana Expandida

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

Inglourious bastards

Anonymous meme profiles on Instagram - such as @freeze_magazine, @jerrygogosian and @newmemeseum - risk cunning criticism at the art world, its peculiarities and its flirtation with unsustainable business models
Nazareth Pacheco

Nazareth Pacheco: creation as triumph of life

Exhibition Registros/Records... in the gallery Kogan Amaro condenses the work of memory made by the artist throughout her life

Galleries Curate: a new way of creating a market

In the troubled context caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a collaborative platform brings together more than 20 galleries and proposes exhibitions that take place simultaneously in various corners of the world
Leonilson

The first Leonilson

Collection by Antonio Dias, with 38 works, sheds light on the early years of the artist from Ceará, especially in works sold in Europe, is in a show at Pinakotheke, now in São Paulo
Sobre o Desenho no Brasil

At the tip of the pencil

Book organized by Claudio Mubarac gives an overview of design history in Brazil

Adriana Varejão: For a cannibal rhetoric

The exhibition markes the first solo show by artist in the northeast, territory of strong baroque heritage and colonial slavery
Gustavo Nobrega

Do not burn after reading

Enthusiast of the mail art, Gustavo Nóbrega, director at Superfície Gallery, wants to foment the interest by pieces of the movement in the collectionism

Collaborators of the issue #55

See who are some of the collaborators to the #55 issue of arte!brasileiros