{"id":824,"date":"2010-08-27T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2010-08-27T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T12:37:00","slug":"o-desejo-da-forma-neoconcretismo-and-contemporary-art-from-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archive.raulmourao.com\/blog\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"O Desejo da Forma – Neoconcretismo and Contemporary Art from Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inaugura no pr\u00f3ximo dia 2 no <\/span><\/span><\/span>Akademie der K\u00fcnste<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> a exposi\u00e7\u00e3o com curadoria de <\/span><\/span>Luiz Camillo Osorio (Rio de Janeiro) e Robert Kudielka (Berlin)<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Peguei l\u00e1 no site deles<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span>

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In the late 1950s Brazil found itself in an unprecedented period of cultural, social and economic change. Bras\u00edlia, the new capital, was designed at the drawing board and constructed in just a few years. The bossa nova revolutionized the music scene. And the fine arts articulated a new artistic outlook in Neoconcretismo \u2013 geometric strictness of concrete art combined with sensuous pleasure in playfullness, subjectivity and expressiveness.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span><\/span><\/span>The exhibition at the Akademie der K\u00fcnste presents a survey of the enormous artistic powers of creativity characterizing this period. Works by the most influential artists of this epoch will be shown, for instance by H\u00e9lio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Ivan Serpa, Alu\u00edsio Carv\u00e3o, Amilcar de Castro and Franz Weissmann. The exhibition also illustrates the mutual interlacing of art and culture with architecture, focusing primarily on the icons of Brazilian architecture of that era, Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, the designers of Bras\u00edlia. The pioneering period of Brazilian culture in the 1950s becomes apparent. An independent Brazilian Modernism, for whose breakthrough this economically supported revolutionary spirit offered a favorable climate, was created from the adaptation of “Western” Modernism.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Installation, sculptures and films by Iole de Freitas, Waltercio Caldas, Carlos Bevilacqua, Carla Guagliardi, Cao Guimar\u00e3es and Pablo Lobato, will provide insight into the developments from Neoconcretismo and its traces in Brazilian art today.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Curators: Luiz Camillo Osorio (Rio de Janeiro), Robert Kudielka (Berlin)<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span><\/span><\/span>A catalogue publication accompanies the exhibition: Das Verlangen nach Form \u2013 O Desejo da Forma. Neoconcretismo und zeitgen\u00f6ssische Kunst aus Brasilien [The Desire for Form \u2013 O Desejo da Forma. Neoconcretismo and Contemporary Art from Brazil] (Ger.\/Eng.), 167 color illustrations, 296 pages, 27.5 x 21.5 cm, Akademie der K\u00fcnste, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88331-162-3, 35 Euros<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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<\/p>\n\nRunning time <\/span><\/span><\/td>\nSept. 3 \u2013 Nov. 7, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nVenue<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nAkademie der K\u00fcnste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten, Germany, Tel. + 49 (30) 200 57-2000, <\/span><\/span>info@adk.de<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOpening hours<\/span><\/span><\/td>\nTues \u2013 Sun, 11 am \u2013 8 pm<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAdmission<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n6 euros, 4 euros (reduced rate)
Free admission on the 1st Sunday of the month and for visitors under 18 years of age<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nExhibition oppening <\/span><\/span><\/td>\nThursday, September 2, 2010, 7 pm, free admission<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n