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art and for touching the social realities closely. Score, installation of Carlos Garaicoa, this characteristic to adapt a lot, it reinvents itself in place. It is a work that is mist,
developed for ten years, synthesizes this thought. The work has the participation of it is just steam. So it sticks easy to the spatial situation. It has works that require
70 musicians of street, of Madrid and Bilbao. It is an orchestra with 35 videos of street specific spatiality and the No Air does not, it only needs water", says the artist. The
musicians performing different pieces. The final score, by Cuban musician Esteban fluidity of the vapor in Laura's work allows the public to discover different forms in
Puela, fuses the varied sonorities and is transmitted to the large digital screen that the variations that the smoke creates in the space, besides the characteristic of the
assumes the direction of the orchestra. Los Carpinteros, in one of his last acts as a work itself transforming the place where it is.
duo, places in the Alacenas, in 2016, criticism about the devastation of the storms that About the interdisciplinarity that permeates Flip and the proposal to insert the arts
invade the Caribbean. The sounds emitted by the hurricanes are recorded, reproduced more punctually, Laura has no doubt that the country is experiencing a time when
and placed in old kitchen cabinets that emit the terrifying noise of the phenomenon. collaboration between the areas is something necessary: "This is a very important

These artists form a logical and consensual core, but it is worth remembering that thing for us , expand that and fortify those relationships", she says. For her, there are
there are at least two dozen others, equally professionally respected, gravitating some areas that link more punctually and strongly with literature, such as cinema. "In
towards international shows. the visual arts this is not so clear, but I think we can start to find these encounters”,
Laura commenta, citing as an example of this confluence her work, Machine of the
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VISUAL ARTS GET INSIDE FLIP VISUAL ARTS AT THE MATRIZ AUDITORIUM

In Flip's most disputed schedule, which takes place in an auditorium set up inside
NEW PROJECT SEEKS TO INSERT ARTS IN THE PARATY INTERNATIONAL Paraty's main church, the visual arts will also be present in various formats. On
LITERARY FESTIVAL AND PANNELS WITH NAMES THAT WORK VISUAL ARTS Thursday, July 11, photographer Maureen Bissiliat will be interviewed by Miguel de
IN THEIR MOST VARIOUS FORMS SHOW THAT THE EVENT SEEKS TO BE EVEN Castillo and Rita Palmeira at table 6, titled Serra Grande. The English photographer
MORE INTERDISCIPLINARY based in Brazil dedicated herself to the encounter between the word, the image
and the geography along its trajectory, known especially for its work with the Xingu
BY JAMYLE RKAIN peoples. At table 12, Mata de Corda, the artist Grada Kilomba is questioned by Kalaf
Epalanga and Lilia Schwarcz on the questions that surround her book Memórias da
THE TRADITIONAL International Paraty Literary Festival in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Plantação, to be released during the event by the publisher Cobogó. In it, the artist
which this year takes place between July 10 and 14, has never stopped reinventing discusses themes such as race, class, gender and post-colonialism, already present
itself and exploring novelties to compose its structures. This will be the 17th edition in her work. Then, at table 13, Ailton Krenak and José Celso Martinez Correa talk
of the event and curated by the journalist and editor Fernanda Diamant, one of the about the valorization of culture, fertile lands for art and diversity, mediated by Camila
creators of the magazine Quatro Cinco Um, specialized in literature. The honoree Mota. The activities take place on July 12, and the next day, tables with Ismail Xavier,
of the time is Rio de Janeiro writer and journalist Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909), Miguel Gomes, Grace Passô, Marina Pessoa and José Miguel Wisnik will also bring the
author of the acclaimed book Os Sertões, considered by many a work that initiates visual arts to the fair in their discussions around cinema, drama, art and literature.
literary journalism in the country, long before the term exists. Whether in the recovery of “a religious memory and the mystical force of Afro-Bahian
Among the transitions and news, Flip's organization, which has Mauro Munhoz's culture” made by Heraclitus, in the reconstruction of history and in reflection on it
general direction, has announced a desire to encourage the development of activities “from the record of what is necessary to keep within history and not forget” made
related to the visual arts in the itinerary of the event, in addition to what happens by Pagatini or Centurión’s awareness of AIDS in a “personal chronicle of his way to
spontaneously through the city. This is how the Terra Nova project was presented, death” Solo sector is bringing countries closer to the continent through common issues.
a visual arts module that intends to carry out interventions that integrate Paraty In the Masters sector, former Repertório, the new curator, Tiago Mesquita, did not
in a way: "From the beginning, Flip has the intersection between the arts in their seek a thematic or historical axis. The art critic says that the curatorial experience of
DNA. Year after year, we were building an approximation between different artistic an event like SP-Arte is still very new for him: “It’s very unusual in relation to other
experiences, including the visual arts. Now we feel the need to make this relationship works that I’ve curated”.
manifest in a more visible way. Terra Nova is an artistic device to illuminate issues Tiago chose to bring to the Masters works produced between the 50s and 80s,
that permeate the territory of the city, its residents and its visitors. One of Flip's because they are works that “we can look at with a certain temporal distance” to
missions is to investigate how art can help to qualify people's look at human relations understand them and also to understand the production of their respective authors.
produced in public spaces, and Newfoundland will propose mechanisms of perception Carlos Fajardo (Marcelo Guarnieri), Ridyas (Central) and a project by Rubens Gerchman
of this territory and its complexities through art", Mauro said to ARTE!Brasileiros. (Surface), among others.
The project was launched in early June during an event at Casa do Parque, in São The biggest surprise is perhaps in the Performance sector. Marcos Gallon, who also
Paulo, where the patron program specially developed for this initiative was presented. organizes the VERBO art performance show, chose not to allocate a space only for the
The patronage plan is aimed at individuals and is the main and exclusive way to make works that will be presented. The performances took place in spaces destined to them
this idea viable. Those who wish to contribute to the project will have some benefits scattered among the exhibitors. Gallon’s idea is to encourage the galleries to also take
such as tickets, preferential access to Flip's main programming that takes place in their performance artists, so the genre is incorporated as another possible medium of
the Matriz Auditorium, invitations to other events held by the organization of the art, not marginalized in a closed corner. Also, according to Gallon, the vast majority of
fair and exclusive works of Laura Vinci, artist confirmed to participate in the first art galleries in the state of São Paulo represent artists who work with performance.
intervention of Terra Nova. Gallon is also driven by the idea of encouraging collectors to buy performances, make
Invited by the curator, Vinci will present its On Air installation, last presented in 2017, them look at it as something that can be sold through the galleries: “So it’s brought
at MuBE, in São Paulo, and has already passed through several places, including to the trade show’s axis.” For this, SP-Arte will buy one of the works presented and
some countries in Europe. Other interventions are still being discussed for budgetary donate to the collection of the São Paulo Pinacoteca. The work will be chosen by the
feasibility issues, and even so the presentation of the employers' program was crucial staff of the institution, led by Jochen Volz. The artists Cadu (Vermelho), Cristiano
to that everything began to be established. The choice of No Air to integrate the debut Lenhardt (Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel), Jorge Soledar (Portas Vilaseca), Maria Noujaim
of the project was discussed between the artist and the curator: "It's a job that has (Jaqueline Martins Gallery) and Jaime Lauriano (Galeria Leme/AD) will be in the sector.

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