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of your permanent collection, with Verboamerica, an Through these three artists, the Mamba can, with breathtaking
excellent set of narratives about the Latin production shows, present the latest decades of Argentine production, in a
through highlights of your collection, displays “Modern supplementary selection, but respecting individuality. Exemplary
Mexico, Vanguard and revolution”, until February 2018. programming developed by the director, Victoria Noorthoorn.
One of the last shows of Agustin Perez Rúbio management
ahead of the institution, the exhibition, curated by Victoria 1 | AT THE MAMBA, IN A NEARLY 200 M ROOM, 7000 SPIDERS SPUN DURING SIX MONTHS
2
Giraudo, Sharon Jazzan and Ariadne Patiño Guadarrama OVER 40.000 WIRES
gathers 170 works of 60 artists, showing how how the
Mexican art goes beyond Frida Kahlo and muralists Diego SÃO PAULO EXHIBITION | PAGES 38 TO 40
Already the Proa Foundation featured “Manifesto” by SAILING IS NECESSARY
Rivera and David Siqueiros.

Julian Rosefeldt, a video installation with 13 projections of
Cate Blanchett in different roles, blending snippets of 50 RETROSPECTIVE OF BRAZILIAN MODERNIST JOSÉ PANCETTI AT
artistic manifestos. In São Paulo was presented a version ALMEIDA GALLERY & DALE
for cinema, without, of course, the immersive power that
13 screens allows, as seen in at Proa. BY MARIA HIRZMAN
The Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (Mamba)
presented three individual shows dedicated to Argentine FROM TIME TO TIME we need to re-look at José Pancetti.
artists, in a really awesome set, starting with “Tomás Larger figure of brazilian modern art, author of one of the
Sarraceno: how to secure the universe in a Web”. most beautiful syntheses of national landscape, he is a kind
The first impression of who enters the single, wide and of mythical figure, a painter who embodies a great dedication
darkened room of the show is that Sarraceno appropriated to your craft and the romantic drama of the artist of popular
the “TTéia”, the iconic work of Lygia Pape composed of gold origin, moved by their own personalconcerns , manages to
threads. However, it is an installation built in fact by 7.000 overcome the limits of your class and reach the deserved
spiders, working in six months, reaching a total of 40.000 recognition. If it is impossible to perform an anthology about
wires. With a dramatic lighting, similar to Pape, the work Brazilian art of the twentieth century, without including
allows an experience as intense as the brazilian. Sarraceno’s it, or imagine a collection of businesses without that he’s
installation, however, for your size and nature, resembles a full represented, rare are the opportunities to see together a
constellation of universes, one of those jobs when the word selection of his works, as offered by the exhibition “Pancetti-
sublime can’t handle to express everything he represents. Navegar é prec iso “, performing at Galeria Almeida e Dale.
The other two Mamba shows features artists who had their Are 45 paintings, including landscapes, covering the
careers interrupted very early, Liliana Maresca (1951-1994), production of the artist from his first works in the 40, mostly
a victim of Aids at the age of 43 years, and Sergio Avello urban scenes more melancholic character, whose chromatic
(1964-2010) at the age of 36 years, on behalf of a cancer. spectrum is still restricted, sometimes grim, even the beach
Despite having curators and even different rooms, both are scenes synthetic of intense colour and contrast, performed
essentially expressions of artists in tune with your time. in the years 1950, among which stand out those carried out
Maresca, with a wide production in years 80 and 90, in the period in which he lived in Salvador and which are your
addressed gender issues, in pictures, performing arts, as most known work.
well as themes of the art world and of neoliberal policies that The selection proposed by Denise Mattar, who was also
Argentina went through after the end of the dictatorship. responsible for the curatorship of the last major retrospective
She was now in the Istanbul Biennial 2017, just with of painter held in 2002 on the occasion of your birth centenary,
“Recoleta” (1990), the play that is also part of the exhibition also seeks to give visibility to the presence of other genres in
in Buenos Aires. Composed by one of those carts to load your work, like the picture-with the self-portrait – and still life. It
old papers, she is a critique of the regime of President is not just a restatement of the versatility of the artist, but the
Carlos Menen (1989-1990), when addressing the depletion need to check that the sensitivity of Pancetti is not restricted
of Argentina, in that period. to only one genre of painting. The curator also devotes part
Avello, already with a more focused production at the of the exhibition the artist dialogues with art history and
beginning of the 21 century, also addresses argentinian with masters such as Van Gogh and Cezanne. According to
issues, as nationalism, but he used pop materials, such as Denise Mattar, your goal is to “show the issues underlying
neon lamps, building “Bandera”, showed in the Mercosul your work: the beat of silence, the charm of everyday life,
Visual Arts biennial exhibition, in 2003, and rebuilt in the the excitement of color and an acute lyricism-almost sore.”
Mamba’s retrospect.. Born in Campinas, son of Italian immigrants, Pancetti had
His work includes sound, drawings, paintings, installations, a difficult childhood. The father, mason (who worked in the
reflecting an artist who transited by many media, as is much building of the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo), ends up
of the production of the current generation, in dialogue sending the children back to Italy in the company of an uncle.
with the American minimalist production, against which Soon after the end of World War I, the young man then 16
Avello used to be ironic. years gets in the Navy and back to Brazil, where he follows