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or peace. The large canvases, some of them death, which he started to make at 15. Winner of the 2020 edition of Pipa Online,
unpublished, arranged in a good montage by To try to categorize Aguilar’s art is to run after Isael Maxakali portrays in films, drawings
Haron Cohen, are unfinished demonstrations the wind. To this day, he lives the multiplicity of and animations the culture of his people,
who now live in a critical situation in five
of an art of hypotheses that never seem to have his transgressions in literature, painting, video art, villages in the northwest of the Brazilian
an end. In Picasso’s Mademoiselles d´Avignon, music, cinema. His painting gained momentum state of Minas Gerais
which bears the title 1907, he celebrates the year in 1963 when he caught the attention of Mário
of the invention of modern art and the creation Pedrosa and Clarival do Prado Valladares. By marCos grinspUm ferraz
of Einstein’s theory of special relativity. His canvases already brought the colors and
Aguilar’s work is intense and obsessive as techniques that resemble the CoBrA group. Two The first sentence spoken by Isael Maxakali
attested by the Amazon River, a large canvas years later he participates in the anthological when answering the call of arte!brasileiros
that reflects his connection with environmental exhibition Opinion 65, with Hélio Oiticica, for an interview about his work and the award
activism in the defense of the planet that, Rubens Gerchman, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, he received last August was quite clarifying on
according to him, has been destroyed by greed considered a landmark in Brazilian art. how the artist thinks: “For me it is a great honor,
and ignorance. “This screen is linked to the “With the ai-5, the climate is unbearable because with my eye I want to enlighten the
Rios Voadores series, an allusion to the moving and silent for London, where Caetano, Gil Maxakali people. If my name has grown a lot,
atmospheric watercourses, passing over our and Mautner were already”. In the area of so has the name of the indigenous people and
heads carrying moisture from the Amazon Basin performances, she creates controversial our village. If I win a prize, they win too.” And he
to the Midwest, Southeast and South of Brazil”. works such as Opera of the Third World, with adds, “It has enlightened my people, who have
Since 2004, Aguilar has been divided between Lucila Meirelles, and presented at Journées always suffered discrimination and prejudice.”
São Paulo and Alter do Chão, in Pará, where interdisciplinaires sur l’art corporel et The talk about the Maxakali and the concern
he maintains a house / studio and a strong performances, in the Beaubourg de Paris, and about the difficult situation experienced by them
relationship with the Amazon rainforest and irritates critics. “They just didn’t interrupt us in the villages of Minas Gerais demonstrate
the local riverside community, involving him because there’s no censorship there.” The a vision where achievements in the personal
in his collective works. The immense canvas 1980s were marked by Casa Azul, his studio at sphere only have value if they come for the
is an ode to nature and an alert cry, the most Joaquim Eugênio de Lima, where intellectuals collective good. Thus, in films, drawings and
powerful and emblematic work of the show. such as Mário Schenberg, Haroldo and Augusto animations produced by Isael over about 15
Aguilar maintains a free narrative, without de Campos passed, the painter Nuno Ramos and years of his career, the artist seeks to present the
filters and brings the multiplicity of interests that the composer and musician Arnaldo Antunes, identity - “true”, as he points out - of the Maxakali
gravitate around his reflections on reasoning, who soon created the band Titans. Aguilar (or Tikmū ūn as they defined themselves).
free will, destiny, environment. Ten of his mixes Bukowski with Indian teachings, expands “In my work I want to show our culture to all
large canvases rehearse a flight over Western his circuit, exhibits in Germany and Japan, wins Brazil to recognize and respect. And so be able to
civilization, from Greek philosophers to a possible the pages of Art in America. help indigenous peoples to have land, to reclaim
occupation of Mars in 2050. In a second set In 1980, the lobby of the Pinacoteca do Estado, their territory. Because today the earth weeps,
of 35 paintings that can be read as tarot cards, former museum amphitheater, burned down the river is drying up, it’s polluted. There’s a lot
he does the opposite way, from object to idea. with the performance Concerto for Box and of asphalt, glass and cement in place of the
He proposes to the visitor a game, a trip to Piano Gloves. “This event started the Banda woods. And here comes the heat, the heating,
imagined places. “Destinations are always Performática with Arnaldo Antunes and other and it all sickens people,” says Isael.
changing, it depends on you, like everything in friends. We did a lot of shows and recorded a The artist received Pipa Online, a category
life”. Each picture is identified as the choice of record ”. In 86 he surprises with the intervention in open to popular voting for one of the most
each person and constitutes a ciphered field the Museum of Image and Sound with Antichrist, important art awards in the country, with 4,191
with dialogues between what we see and how “an allusion to the Bulgarian artist Christo who votes. Isael was awarded R$ 15,000 and is
we understand what we see. “The most recent wrapped monuments, museums, bridges”. expected to donate a work to the pipa Institute.
screen of the exhibition I made three weeks ago, Aguilar unwraps the mis, which was covered with Following Jaider Esbell and Arissana Pataxó
as a performance inside the exhibition room. black plastic during the iv Videobrasil Festival, (in 2016) and Denilson Baniwa (in 2019), this is
In the expanded field, expanded gestures are when the museum was on Avenida Europa. “We the third edition in the last five years in which
born that form a great wave ”. In another work, did everything with a lot of fun.” artists of indigenous origin receive Pipa Online.
a tangle of threads named after neighborhoods All phases and languages of Aguilar For Baniwa, “despite all the controversy that
emerges under the title São Paulo, a friction intertwine, dialogue with each other and are is an award, since it is always the result of the
of art and urbanism, with their paint-smeared witnesses of a strangeness that changes the erasure of other stories - there is only one winner
shoes hanging in the air. viewer’s gaze on reality and representation. because there is a loser - it is also the recognition
The evolutionary line of 60 years of art His paintings are performances of colors and of a journey that is being more visible now”.
reveals Aguilar and his intense involvement gestures that bring to the same space the “So from where I am, as an Indigenous, I think
with Brazilian contemporary art. “It all started perception of a unique reality, different from it’s wonderful, because I was saturated with
in the mid-1950s, with my high school classmate that which moves conventional man. seeing in the awards always faces that didn’t
Jorge Mautner. At 15 we read everything that look like me, nor with with the people that I walk
falls into our hands. I wanted to be a writer, but aWard | pipa online [pages 64 to 67] with,” he says.
I followed the visual arts and Mautner went to A WORK THAT HELPS The artist’s concern that an award will put
literature ”. At the age of 22 Aguilar exhibits at different fundamental narratives in dispute - of
the vii Bienal de São Paulo and Mautner, at the “ENLIGHTEN” THE indigenous, black, poor or non-binary people
age of 21, launches the book God of rain and MAXAKALI PEOPLE – has nevertheless been accompanied by
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