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permeable to the different and, therefore, more to do. To get this power, you need to accumulate a visibility and thus be able to develop other curatorial
plural. In an unfair social scenario characterized by lot of money in your account. And that’s what I’ve projects”, explains Luiz Camillo. And he adds: “If
racism and gender inequality, this change in attitude been doing. I always thought in an entrepreneurial we realize in the future that the in-person collective
is commendable and necessary, even if the initiatives way. Patrimony is what is needed among African exhibitions of selected artists are important, we will
adopted are insufficient to curb the deficit of black, Americans. Patrimony. To have things”. To overcome do them again. At the moment, we are convinced
indigenous and female representation generally capitalism, it is necessary to achieve it. On the smooth that the changes were positive”.
present in the collections. and shiny surfaces of the canvases of No Martins, In its 11th edition, last year, for the first time since
However, it is not difficult to observe that not all the black characters presented “have things”, but its creation, the pipa Award had more than one
productions eagerly prospected and quickly exhibited not only that, they have “values”, and it is the values winner, nominating Gê Viana, Maxwell Alexandre,

are of an equivalent degree of quality. A not negligible that enshrine and elevate them, it is the values that Randolpho Lamonier and Renata Felinto. In 2021,
number of these productions suggest poor and hastily make them aspire to power . the organization chose to adopt this model as the
developed research, poorly aligned in the short time Black people are taught to hate each other. The norm. “More than concentrating on a single name, we
of their academic experiences or not. Difficulties in black, being a mirror of himself, was led by the metric realized that sharing the award is fairer, considering
the development and exercise of Afro-Brazilian art of racism to believe that what he sees reflected in a scenario as plural and continental as the Brazilian
criticism and historiography also contribute to the the mirror is ugly and precarious. Martins, in these one, with so many relevant micro-scenes from north
immature promotion of artists still in training. As a paintings, proposes that the meeting between black to south of the country”, explains the curator. The
result, there is a chance that a contingent of these people will always be a political act and all the more general award, decided on the basis of an analysis
artists will have their trajectories forgotten in a short so if affectivity is the mediating component of these of portfolios and trajectories carried out by a board
space of time. The risk of the impermanence of these meetings. Art in general and painting in particular are of renowned professionals in the area, now has five
artistic trajectories may imply a reinforcement of the still, in a sense, a projection of power. This is most winners annually; pipa Online, a category whose
system of memory erasure, victimizing precisely the evident in the monument-painting that in the 18th decision resides in a popular vote, rewards the two
excluded populations that are celebrated in these and 19th centuries consecrated the protagonists most voted artists - this year, Daiara Tukano and
productions. and achievements of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie Ruth Albernaz.
It is also for this reason that the artistic project of the north-west. Among the excluded, never, as “The selection of more than one artist also helps
developed by the artist No Martins has an importance today, has an aesthetic and ethical project similar to decentralize this figure of the ‘winner’, as well as
that is not at all ordinary. On a recent visit to the to this one had the chance to become effective and alleviating a little the competitiveness that plagues
artist’s studio in the Barra Funda neighborhood of give, for example, a new meaning to the efforts of capitalist and neoliberal society as a whole and the
São Paulo, we saw the correctness of the excellent the scintillating and fleeting Jean-Michel Basquiat. artistic milieu in particular”, shares Ilê Sartuzi about
judgment that the artist and teacher Rosana Paulino But, among us, artists like No Martins are never the award general. The artist, however, believes that
makes of him. Artist of whom Martins was also a able to refer to and confess influences from their the category linked to the popular vote goes in the
student, by the way. The immodest shed that the artist contemporaries and those who immediately opposite direction. “While it could, ideally, select a
occupies with exclusivity is located in the traditional preceded them, an opportunity that runs parallel production completely different from the awards
São Paulo neighbourhood, according to the scale of to the social struggle promoted outside and within council’s endorsement, on the other hand, it reiterates
some of his paintings which, despite varying in size, studios, academies and galleries. The result of the competitive savagery added to the promotion of
sometimes aspire to the monumental. This option this effort is reflected in the productions of artists self-image and the free and massive advertising of
for the giant scale is fully justified in the political such as Arjan Martins, Aline Motta, Sidney Amaral, the award.” For Denilson Baniwa, choosing more than
ambition that the works express, whether in a veiled Rosana Paulino and others who daily reinvent the one winner also sounds necessary at this moment
manner or explicitly. representation of blacks in the arts, investigating in Brazil. “I feel uncomfortable being in a dispute for
Since never, as now, the Brazilian State is their history to understand the present and also territory in a place that is already super violent and
silent in proposing and implementing policies through these productions that they predict the disloyal like art. So, I think it’s cool a choice that fits
for the promotion, acquisition and maintenance future to be snatched from the present - as seems more bodies, and that still has a view of the jury”.
of collections of works of art, especially those of to be the case with No Martins.
Afro-Brazilian and indigenous extraction, and that from anCestrY to new teChnologies
patronage among us is almost an extravagance. It is awarD pipa [paGEs 86 to 91] This sieve of the jury has a special weight for the
fair to imagine that, with exceptions, the fate of works Amazonian who two years ago won the pipa Online
with these characteristics are private collections FROM ANCESTRY and is now one of those selected for the general
that do little (because they are not encouraged to award. If the victory in 2019 allowed more people
do so) to promote their public exhibition - mainly TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES to come into contact with the work of Denilson
to the detriment of those who were the reason and Baniwa and that he had a different look at his
subject of their execution. After all, what is, among PIPA 2021 awards Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, work - taking it more seriously and generating an
us, the social fate of paintings that measure two, Denilson Baniwa, Ilê Sartuzi, Marcela Bonfim evolution from the conceptual and formal points of
three, four linear meters or more? It may seem and Ventura Profana, pointing out poignant view -, the announcement of this year brings other
contradictory that engaged artists like No Martins issues in Brazilian contemporary art personal and professional echoes. “A group of people
launch themselves in this type of endeavor, but by specializing in the arts said that my work has a good
mastering the expressive means he chose to build By Giulia Garcia thing, and that was something I asked myself a lot
his narratives, Martins understands the social and about: what do critics and curators think about my
possibly historical dimension that his work can “being the thermometer of what is most work?”. Jaguar artist and anthropophagous, as he
acquire. In this exists a parallel with the project of powerful in each historical moment is the defines himself, Denilson is considered one of the
the precociously deceased Sidney Amaral (1973-2017), commitment of the art awards. More than pointing exponents of contemporary indigenous art. In his
with whom he corresponded. to a single path of contemporary expressions, we must works, he involves environmental issues and the
In the series entitled Political Encounters, the reveal the various bifurcations that are constantly struggle of native peoples, exploring an ancestral
artist presents us with portraits of black men and being opened up in hegemonic routes and narratives”, and futuristic indigenous poetics. In recent years,
women who outline not only a fiction about the defends Luiz Camillo Osorio, pipa’s curator. It was he has noticed a change in the artistic scene and in
desired future for this social group. In these works with this in mind that the traditional contemporary his relationship with it. “I think [in 2019] I was much
he projects utopias that Martins himself has been art award decided to change its rules. Instead of more exposed to kicking the lock on the door to show
making into reality. In these recent paintings, the concentrating on a single name, it selected five my work and see my indigenous friends and relatives
characters are portrayed through solidly organized winners in its 12th edition: Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro together. Denilson now found a key that opens some
and crystalline compositions, compositions that from Espírito Santo, Denilson Baniwa from Amazonas, doors and manages to bring a lot more people”. In his
privilege the characters constituted from virtuous Ilê Sartuzi and Marcela Bonfim from São Paulo and most recent research, he has focused on the forced
drawing and established in architectures with fields Ventura Profana from Bahia. displacements that amputate the memory of several
of bright colors, but never oppressive. This was not the only change in pipa, which from indigenous people in Brazil, dealing with the process
These virtuously constructed characters are this year takes on a clearer character of development of affirmation and reaffirmation, the search for a lost
arranged in situations where relationships based - focusing on professionals with recent trajectories identity and the violence against these bodies. It is
on affection take place in non-dysfunctional who, upon being selected, receive a donation of in this sense that he intends to work in the exhibition
environments, environments that do not express R$ 10 thousand each, without the counterpart of of the pipa 2021 Award, seeing in the option for the
material want and are at least comfortable, if not donating a work to the Institute - and ends (at least virtual another possibility of investigating the format:
downright luxurious. These ambiences have a temporarily) the in-person exhibitions of the prize. “This challenges me to think about works that are
political connotation, contrary to narratives where From September 9 to November 20, Paço Imperial, born from digital. I don’t like to think of my work
lack and violence are immediately associated with in Rio de Janeiro, shows the works of the 2020 being digitized, I like to think from where it is native”.
the daily lives of black people. In these paintings the winners, alongside pipa’s recent acquisitions and Marcela Bonfim’s work is also permeated by the
individual, or the individuals, presented, empower not commissionings. The winners of this edition will idea of recovering identity. Graduated in economics,

themselves: the external signs of power displayed by have a digital occupation. “We decided that from it was only when she moved to Porto Velho, Rondônia,
them are the result of a more general struggle and of 2021 onwards, the in-person exhibitions will only be that the woman from São Paulo really understood
everybody’s. Filmmaker Spike Lee, in an interview from the institute’s collection and the exhibition of herself as a black woman. If she on the streets of São
with Rolling Stone magazine, stated: “(...) I’m just the winners will take place in a virtual environment. Paulo she sought meritocracy discourses and saw
trying to get the power to be able to do what I have The idea is to strengthen the institution, give it more her image as an obstacle, when taking photographs
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