Entre Construção e Apropriação — Antonio Dias, Geraldo de Barros e Rubens Gerchman in the 1960s
04/06/2018 — 06/03/2018
Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo, SP
Entre Construção e Apropriação — Antonio Dias, Geraldo de Barros and Rubens Gerchman in the 1960s,was held at Sesc Pinheiros under the curatorship of João Bandeira. With free entry, the exhibition brought together 60 works by the three artists, conceived between the years 1960 and 1967.
The premise of the project emerged from shared aesthetic aspects and social implications in the works of Dias, Barros and Gerchman produced during this period. Under the pressure generated by the turbulent political context of those years — just before the military coup of 1964 and exacerbated by the repression unleashed by the new government — an intense response in the artistic world included major solo shows and collective events, such as the Nova Objetividade Brasileira — New Brazilian Objectivity — (at the Museum of Modern Art at Rio de Janeiro, in 1967), which provided an outlet for a renewed appetite for experimentation.
“Making use of the recent constructive legacy and simultaneously appropriating new processes and questions on the agenda at that time, Antonio Dias, Geraldo de Barros and Rubens Gerchman established a poetics with highly specific characteristics. But which, nevertheless, can be approximated in detail, thanks to the skill with which they deal, in their works, with some of the main forces at work in the field of art in the 1960s, and which, though not always in a wholly integrated manner, inform a significant portion of the work which demanded the creation of a new artistic vanguard in Brazil”, observes the curator, João Bandeira.
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