Cao Guimarães - Gambiarra Aesthetic
04/27/2012 — 07/01/2012
Cavalariças – Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
The show Gambiarra Aesthetic bringed together the recent production of the artist Cao Guimarães. With 22 photographs of the series entitled Gambiarras (2005-2010) and Real Landscapes – tribute to Guignard, and videos made between 2004 and 2011, making up a dialogue on one of the main points in the trajectory of the artist: the relationship between photography and video and how this constellation forms what we might call the “aesthetics of quick-fix” in his work.
The vision of the world that Guimarães offers us is through estrangement; his work makes us know more about the vicissitudes of the world from the different and not from the same. Estrangement can also be the quick-fix / troubleshooter or gambiarra, something in turn that belongs to the imagination and the Brazilian quotidian.
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