Artist collectives reflect the spirit of the time

Both the choice of five collectives as nominees for the Turner Prize, in 2021, and the announcement of 14 collectives as the first participants...
Flávio-de-carvalho

Flávio de Carvalho: a permanent experimentation

Designer, painter and performer, the artist has an important retrospective at Dlmeida e Dale gallery
“Chuck Coma sofreu uma lesão cerebral por hipóxia depois que seu colega de cela o estrangulou na penitenciária federal em Lewisburg, Pensilvânia, privando seu cérebro de oxigênio. Desde então, ele tem sofrido de perda de memória, alterações extremas de humor e tremores ocasionais. No momento de sua prisão, Coma estava lutando contra um grave PTSD devido ao serviço militar no Panamá e na Guerra do Golfo. Antes das guerras, ele era um pouco encrenqueiro, mas não tinha problemas sérios com a lei. Quando ele deixou o serviço, não conseguiu segurar um emprego e começou a assaltar bancos”. Shelton, Washington. EUA. 2019. | Crédito: Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos. Cortesia do fotógrafo.

What happens when we unmake the world?

Works by Peter van Agtmael, Steve McQueen and Emily Jacir reflect on conflict and preclude our oblivion of war’s cruel consequences

Nas veredas do sertão

36th Panorama da Arte Brasileira occupies the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM–SP) with works that propose experiences outside the major urban centers

Editorial: In mourning I fight

"We are traversed by the inevitable awareness of the loss of values ​​in our society, which is collapsing", writes Patricia Rousseaux in the editorial of issue #55 of arte!brasileiros

Paiz Art Biennial focuses on cultural diversity and crises in Latin...

In an interview with arte!brasileiros, Chilean curator Alexia Tala talks about the 22nd edition of the Guatemalan Biennial, which raised debates about native peoples, their worldviews, and opinions about immigration and contemporary crises

Collaborators of the issue #55

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

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

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
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