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However, not being able to be a Viking, area of the Planalto Palace. Ruining january 8, 2023 article [pages 14 and 15]
neither true nor fake, (like the North those images complemented the
American), the Canadian Viking chose to allegory into which that invasion WHEN ART AND CULTURE
transform himself into a false indigenous. had become: to stop time, but also BECOME ENEMIES
An indigenous person entitled to green to break up and destroy history, the The Acts of January 8, in which buildings
and yellow body paint, holding a sign Brazilian past – always Bolsonarist’s and works were destroyed, are the result of
with the name of former federal deputy greatest desire. the cultural war and the lack of control of
social networks
Daniel Silveira and – amazed! – a white, The question was not to destroy the
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green and yellow headdress in the image of all the former presidents by fabio cypriano
mold of the native… apache! Yes of the and the president, the question
Apaches, those of the cowboy movies was to remove, from this kind of more than an attack on
of North American cinema. iconographic chronology, the image democracy, the attempted Tabajara
This bizarre figure, “our” Viking – a of the “myth”. A selective iconoclasm. coup on January 8, 2023 also staged
false pantomime Indian –, by staging The image of the half-astonished, contempt and vilification of culture, the
that grotesque episode, symbolically half-silly subject, holding the photo like of which had never been seen in the
announced what would happen in the of Jair Bolsonaro in front of the history of Brazil.
country’s capital two years later: the other destroyed images, says a lot Works by Di Cavalcanti, Bruno Giorgi,
Tupiniquim simulacrum, “our” invasion about what that mob wanted when it Alfredo Ceschiati, Athos Bulcão and
of the Capitol. invaded the palaces of Brasília. Victor Brecheret, to name just a few
of the most prominent modernists in
*** *** Brasília, were attacked as if they were
It is certain that the man who destroyed I am not interested in expressing “degenerate art”.
the 17th-century clock that D. João 6th here my regret for the vandalism The comparison with the Nazi classi-
brought to Brazil in 1808, carried out committed against the works of fication is not casual. The concept
this action in the same way that he Emiliano Di Cavalcanti and other such of degenerate art emerged in the
destroyed the piece of furniture that significant artists. It doesn’t interest 1930s when Hitler sought to defend a
supported the piece, the table and the me because I couldn’t perceive, in distant representation of the European
chair that were nearby. In the plot of these acts of attack on works of art, modernist vanguards and decreed
general destruction that seemed to any difference with which the rioters the burning of five thousand works
govern him, neither the preciousness of the 8th of January destroyed chairs, in March 1939. Until today there are
of the clock, so rare, stopped him or shop windows and other equipment. doubts whether the order was fulfilled,
encouraged him to specifically destroy There seems to have been no ability as there is no record of this barbarism,
it. No: he ended up with everything among them to distinguish a precious unlike the 1933 book burning, this one
that appeared in front of him in a and rare good from a more trivial one. is documented in official photos.
“democratic” way, nothing seemed to What seems to have prevailed there However, the persecution of art
be saved from his fury. was the destructive fury, preserving and culture by the Nazi regime is not
However, it seems that there was a only the image of the “myth”. so far from what happened during
glimmer of awareness in that subject If “our” vandals destroyed art objects the administration of the president,
that, in fact, that clock was not – or and everyday objects, defecated and who was given jewels worth millions
should not be – any other object. And urinated in the palaces of Brazilian in an outrageous way. His constant
perhaps it was this realization that led democracy, “their” vandals were less speeches against the incentive
him to want to destroy the surveillance destroyers of symbols and, as far as laws and the very extinction of the
camera. we know, not at all scatological. This Ministry of Culture are proof of a solid
In any case, by throwing D. João vi’s is not, of course, about establishing campaign, with at least four years, of
clock to the ground, that man tried to a hierarchy, stating that “their” affront to the arts.
stop time, transforming that invasion protesters were more civilized than These initiatives are part of a concept
into a kind of hiatus. ours. It is just a matter of drawing that the extreme right handbooks
If the Capitol invaders aimed to attention to the fact that the farce can call culture war and which is based
prevent Biden’s diplomacy, regaining be even more harmful and dramatic on denouncing non-existent dangers
power to move forward, “our” invaders when they try to repeat (and silence) based on false information – like
had another goal. The interest there history. encouraging pedophilia with a dick
was not to continue the historical bottle. It is the tactic of creating
process, reversing its course (like “their” 1 – Yes, terrorists. Whoever strikes terror with panic. This started in an organized
invaders), the purpose was to stop it. It rockets, metal bars, etc., and, on top of that, and programmed way when exhibitions
was to institute an end, a zero degree so steals weapons from the Institutional Security and performances were attacked, in
that, subsequently, the reactionary elite Office, is a terrorist. 2017, in several places around the
would take over the country. Hence the country (Brasília, São Paulo and Rio
symbolic importance of the clock that [2] – Yes, Daniel Silveira, the one who, in public, de Janeiro), on the grounds that they
had belonged to King João vi. helped to destroy a plaque in honor of Marielle were going against the idea of family
Hence also the symbolic importance Franco, council woman executed with her driver and religion. The Movimento Brasil
of the destruction of pieces from the in the city of Rio de Janeiro years ago, and to Livre (mbl), one of the pillars of support
gallery of images of the presidents this day it is not known who was the mastermind for Bolsonarism at the time, led these
and the president that decorated an of the crime. actions to disseminate lies.
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