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ENGLISH VERSION RE-NATION

EDITORIAL [page 6]
Ismael Nery. For these people, Nery will the offer of other – contemporary – ways
RE-NATION always be ‘our’ Marc Chagall; Portinari of contacting the public with art and
‘our’ Picasso, Fabio Assunção, ‘our’ Brad culture. The Pinacoteca library, one
in the simple definition of “nation”, Pitt. Avenida Paulista as ‘our’ Fif h of the largest specialized in Brazilian
the Houaiss Dictionary speaks of Avenue, and so on, until it culminated art, it is installed at the park level, with
an autonomous political grouping, in the belief that Jair Bolsonaro would direct access for all.”
which occupies territory with defined be ‘our’ Donald Trump.”
limits, and whose members respect On the cover of this art!brasileiros ,
shared institutions (laws, constitution, On the other hand, those of us the dragons by Chico da Silva from Acre
government). And, more than that, it who understand the need to refound remind us that we have a permanent
shares the same language, cultural the nation, thinking of it as inclusive, fight to pursue, and art helps us in this
roots, customs, and historical past. developed and supportive, start where struggle.
In Brazil, we are far from being able to we can.
have a definition of nation that reaches The idea of defending the creation collaborators [page 04]
the individuals or citizens who live in it of inclusive public policies, respectful
territorially. For many, definitely, the of the other, and the construction of BITU CASSUNDÉ was curator of the
idea of nation is linked to the idea of environments capable of providing Museum of Contemporary Art of
patriotism developed by some, for freedom, are commented on in a Ceará and coordinated the Visual Arts
themselves. text by Fabio Cypriano, showing how Laboratory of Porto Iracema das Artes.
The nation of the whites is funda- much it is possible to make nods to a He was part of the project’s curatorial
mentally the nation of the whites, who refoundation of these policies in the team Northeast, at Sesc 24 de Maio (sp).
have accumulated money and power context of culture . He lives and works in Crato (ce), at the
based on predatory capital. Everything Some examples are already Centro Cultural do Cariri. In this issue, she
that has come to light in recent months happening and, just as Sandra Benites, writes about the painter Chico da Silva.
– about illegal mining practices in an indigenous curator, was appointed
indigenous communities, the brutal to the direction of visual arts at Funarte, JOTABÊ MEDEIROS is a reporter and
attack on Amazonian lands and rivers, Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto, a professor biographer, among others, of the
as well as the rescue of countless at the University of Brasília, was sworn singer Belchior. He was a reporter for O
workers in conditions analogous to in as Director General of the National Estado de S.Paulo and Folha de S.Paulo,
slavery, on agricultural farms in various Archive. This is the first black woman assistant editor for Veja sp, editor for
regions of the country – definitively to assume the position of director of tv Gazeta and Carta Capital. He makes
denies that we can define Brazil as the body, in 185 years. A huge step in an X-ray of the changes in the MinC,
a nation. supporting research, management in addition to interviews with the new
It is as if there were a structural and democratization of documents presidents of Iphan (Leandro Grass)
impossibility of the nation. The and access to knowledge. and Ibram (Fernanda Castro).
Brazilian Constitution, which, by itself, In São Paulo, the inauguration of
would not be a safeguard for citizens, is the Pinacoteca Contemporânea, a MARIA HIRSZMAN is a journalist and
literally thrown into the fire, and reality project that has been desired since art critic. She worked for Jornal da
shows how fragile the structures that 2005, far from merely adding one more Tarde and O Estado de São Paulo.
defend it are. cultural facility to the city, brought an She is a researcher in art history, with
Let us resort to the words of Tadeu exponential gain to its culture. It was a a master’s degree from usp. For this
Chiarelli, in the brilliant article of this breath of air, recognized by everyone issue, Maria writes about the recently
edition The Crazy White Man’s Samba present. Maria Hirszman tells all the opened Pinacoteca Contemporânea,
(page 8): “Part of the Brazilian ‘white’ details of the project in this edition. in São Paulo.
middle class insists on not seeing itself The building, thought of as an open
as part of a society defined by a series museum, gave new meaning to Parque TADEU CHIARELLI is a curator, art critic
of characteristics and contradictions da Luz, in Bom Retiro, the oldest public and full professor in the Visual Arts
, preferring to live as if he constituted park in the municipality, built in 1825, course at usp. He was director of the
a group of exiles from other societies and listed by condephaat in 1981. The Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the
and cultures. He lives in the interior of new exhibition space is placed in a Museum of Contemporary Art at usp.
Santa Catarina, as if he were German, loving dialogue with the Pinacoteca He has also served as chief curator of
in São Paulo; as if he were Italian; in from São Paulo, to Pina Luz, providing the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo
Goiás, as if he lived in Texas. But a new tour for the city. (mam-sp). For this edition, he signs an
paradise this group tends to be the Jochen Volz, director of Pinacoteca article about January 8, 2023.
United States, Florida, Miami and de São Paulo since 2017, highlighted,
Orlando – for its members, a kind of in his welcome speech to the guests: THEO MONTEIRO holds a Bachelor’s
Brazil that ‘worked’. “As the architects Paula Zasnicoff and degree in History and a Master’s
Carlos Alberto Maciel, responsible for in Social History from the Faculty
[…] Because of this need to live here, the project, say, the museum should of Philosophy, Letters and Human
as if they were there, this class ends be an ‘oasis’. Sciences at usp. From 2016 to 2020,
up creating local correspondents to he worked as an assistant curator at
what they understand as international […] Pina Contemporânea is not just Instituto Tomie Ohtake and today works
prototypes. Thus, Ismael Nery is never an expansion of the exhibition area, but on the curatorial team at Galeria Nara
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