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has emerged during the phenomenon of the The only Brazilian gallery that is part of this an extension or continuous hope for the future.
expansion of art fairs which, due to its essentially international pool is A Gentil Carioca, from wThe gallery A Gentil Carioca, in Rio de
commercial profile, brought back a somewhat Rio de Janeiro, directed by Márcio Botner, Janeiro, harbor of astral fantasies and renewing
fetishistic character of the artist and his work, in one of its owners. Engaged in the Art Basel experiences, shows Descompasso Atlântico, by
addition to elevating the figure of the collector Miami committee, he is a globetrotter on the Arjan Martins, which takes place in two places
as the main legitimator of the circuit - only what circuit, connected to several projects around and with different poetics. Inside the gallery, the
sells should be considered. the world and one of the most animated with paintings maintain a narrative focus on both
As a sort of antidote to this system, which Galleries Curate. “The idea was born from the the slavery heritage and the current situation
had already shown decay for some years, these virtual contacts of a group of 12 people and of the black population. In the open air, right
collectives sought new practices, often far from it impressed me when we soon reached 21 on Ipanema beach, Arjan Martins creates a
fairs and collectors’ homes. They are either in participants”. Involved in so many projects, colorful installation of geometric inspiration that
institutions or universities, such as Forensic he believes in horizontal collaboration between converses with the Atlantic Ocean, an old route
Architecture, based on the Goldsmiths of the artists, gallery owners and critics, uniting people for slave ships. Composed of five windsocks,
University of London, which, incidentally, was who think closely to the group’s goals. Each objects commonly used in airports to control the
nominated for the Turner in 2018, or they are gallery proposed what they wanted to show wind, the installation brings in each one of them
just informal groups of artists, such as Cólera and they started the exhibitions earlier this year. a symbol of maritime warnings: man overboard,
Alegria, in Brazil, who have been contributing “What is happening is something special. While dangerous cargo, etc. The gallery purposely
to relevant political manifestations with the we have established dealers, we have young opened the exhibition on April 22, the day on
creation of innovative visual material, far from enthusiasts with less time in the market. The which, in 1500, Portuguese settlers landed in
the serious clichés of conventional militancy, in platform began to be publicly thought of this Brazil. The ideology of survival traversed by
addition to having a strong presence in social year and people are now getting to know the Galleries Curate: rhe makes the declarations
networks. project better.” of intent of this group an expanded space to
Not by chance, in his recent book What French Clément Delépine, young coordinator see and register the new normal.
Comes After Farce, American critic Hal Foster of Galleries Curate: rhe and co-director of
points out that many artists have been working the Paris Internationale fair, also mediates revieW | JosÉ damasCeno exhiBition [pages 28 to 31]
on the key of “reconstruction”, that is, they are part of the project’s lives. For him, since the
looking for systems that serve as alternative first negotiations, these conversations are JOSÉ DAMASCENO AND
possibilities to the collapsing world . constituted as group therapy. “The project
The case of Cólera Alegria is exemplary, has in its title the enigmatic symbol rhe, a MONA LISA’S SMILE
because it is a grouping of militancy, where measure of unity and impermanence, defined
each one continues with their individual work, by two Greek words: panta rei, which means Exhibition at Estação Pinacoteca makes a
but in the collective there is an energy that is ‘everything moves”. Delépine draws an analogy retrospective of the Brazilian artist’s work
multiplied by singularities. between the water element, fundamental in our in more than 70 works that seduce and
Thus, contrary to what is conventionally lives, and their effort to create alternatives in provoke comfort – to a certain extent
stated that Documenta sets trends, the next the global crisis. The work transcends hosting
edition of the event will enshrine practices under online exhibitions, a digital platform, as there is By faBio Cypriano
construction for more than two decades, which also a concern with archiving materials related
are repositioning the arts system. to the works on display. When new content is it gives a Certain relieF to enter José
added, past and current projects are mixed. Damasceno’s exhibition, Moto-continuo, at
The exhibitions have multiple themes and Estação Pinacoteca, in such an unfavorable
marKet | galleries Curate [pages 24 to 27] most talk about the environment. In the Tempest context, when a Cpi unveils all the preposterous
group show, at the Tanya Leighton Gallery in acts of a government that contributed to the
GALLERIES CURATE: A Berlin, the artist Monster Chetwynd stands nearly 500,000 deaths as a result of Covid- 19
in the country.
out for shaping the figure of a huge octopus
NEW WAY OF CREATING made of latex, painted and lasciviously placed The diversity of procedures, from
A MARKET on the floor. The installation is completed with magnanimous installations to delicate designs,
the woodcut enlarged in xerox and fixed to the
the disparity between the materials used, from
wall of a copy of the erotic series The Dream the noble marble to the decaying and perishable
In the troubled context caused by the of the Fisherman’s Wife (Kinoe no komatsu), cigarettes, and the absence of an explicit
Covid-19 pandemic, a collaborative by artist Katsushika Hokusai, executed in theme, can point to an exhibition that deals at
platform brings together more than 20 popular shunga printing in the 19th century. its limit with art as an “experimental exercise of
galleries and proposes exhibitions that Monster Chetwynd’s life touches on the poetic, freedom”, as defined by art critic Mário Pedrosa
take place simultaneously in various performance she identifies with. In a game of (1900-1981). In times of pandemic freedom can
corners of the world identities, the Glasgow artist changes her name be everything.
from time to time, as did Hokusai, the artist she
As the North American curator Lynn
reveres and who throughout her life has had Zelevansky points out in the exhibition’s catalog
By leonor amarante more than 30 names. The water here presents to describe one of the artist’s works, but which
itself as a metaphor, dream or mythical delirium serves for the exhibition as a whole, Damasceno
the impaCt CauseD bY the CoviD-19 of an unexperienced jouissance. creates “a world of its own, inhabited by strange
From a more programmatic perspective creatures”.
panDemiC has caused unimaginable changes. of the ecological movement, Galleria Franco Among the more than 70 pieces exhibited,
The perplexity of the present, arising from Noero, from Turin, shows Simon Starling’s film made between 1989 and 2021, some of the works
the protocols of confinement and temporary Project for a crossing of the Rift Valley. The still, that help in this feeling of disconnection from
closings of galleries, museums, fairs and composed of paradisiacal images, poetically the context are those that, due to their size
biennials, has shaken the art system since registers a canoe, built with magnesium and seriality, create strange landscapes, such
the beginning of last year. In this context, the extracted from the Dead Sea waters used in as Trilha Sonora, with hundreds of hanging
challenge of overcoming the crisis and finding 2016, in an attempt to cross it, departing from hammers in nails create the representation of
a way out of the unexpected collapse led to the Israel to Jordan. The experience advances in mountains, and Snooker, a pool table covered
creation of the collaborative platform Galleries several directions and reveals that in this stretch, with woolen threads that come out of the lamps
Curate: rhe. The idea came from a group of located in the Rift Valley, the water is highly arranged above it. The same principle is seen
gallery owners linked to the committee of the salty and that the place stands out for being the in Paisagem crescendo, where hundreds of
three Art Basel fairs - Miami, Hong Kong and lowest on the planet - it is 427 meters below sea cigarettes that look like dots on the wall create
Basel - with the idea of promoting simultaneous level. He also warns that the region is heavily images of trees.

virtual exhibitions in galleries all over the world, exploited for keeping special mineral wealth: a It is a set of works that seduce because of
in support of the community. liter of water contains 45 grams of magnesium. the tricks of their compositions and provoke
The first exhibition has water as its theme and There are works philosophically engaged that Mona Lisa smile, for their ingenuity and
was suggested by the gallery owner Chantal in the symbolism of time and its duration. originality. In his text, Zelevansky seeks to
Crousel, from Paris, one of the first to embrace The Jean Mot gallery, in Brussels, shows the value this strategy by pointing out that there
the idea. The group highlighted the undeniable video Canção para Lupita, by Francis Alÿs, is a “psychological dimension in Damasceno’s
limitations that their spaces were experiencing from 1998, an animation in 16mm. The water work that borders on the surreal” and cites
at that time and decided to change the scenario moves in Alÿs’ poetic itinerary throughout the the artist’s favorite authors such as William
with a dynamic virtual dialogue between the film. A woman pours water from one glass to James, Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges
individual programs of each gallery, whether another repeatedly. The action of making and as possible dialogues with his work.
in Jakarta, Brussels, Singapore, New York, Rio undoing is accompanied by a song whose phrase In fact, the aforementioned works have surreal
de Janeiro, Tokyo, or Paris . Mañana, mañana és breve para mi can suggest dimensions, as their unusual construction
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