Crossroads of Afro-Brazilian Art 11/16/2024 — 02/17/2025
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Encruzilhadas da Arte Afro-Brasileira [Crossroads of Afro-Brazilian Art] brings together works by 62 artists from different regions of the country. With general coordination and production by Tatu Cultural and local production by Automatica, the exhibition is an offshoot of the Afro Project, in development since 2016 and launched in 2020, which currently brings together around 330 artists catalogued on the platform. These names span a vast period of artistic production in Brazil, from the 19th century to the contemporaries born in the 2000s.
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Path
12/07/2024 — 01/26/2025
MUHCAB - Museu da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Caminho [Path] is the result of the artistic-pedagogical residency of ELÃ – Escola Livre de Artes [Free School of Arts], a project by Observatório de Favelas in partnership with Automatica. In its fifth edition, ELÃ proposed a collective investigation into the concept of "path". The works, which range from installations to paintings, photographs, videos and soundscapes, reflect the encounter between individual and collective trajectories, interspersed with favela, Afro-diasporic and original references.
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In this retrospective, curated by Clarissa Diniz, visitors will have the opportunity to dive into the artist's peculiar and thought-provoking universe and immerse themselves in Zerbini's creative process, who describes his art as a journey of rumination, in which landscapes, dreams and memories are crushed and reconfigured in an involuntary way. With 140 works, some of which have never been exhibited, divided into five thematic sections, visitors will be taken on a visual journey through the artist's constant reworking of landscapes throughout his career.
The show, co-produced with Ateliê Luiz Zerbini, Mourart and Automatica, highlights the centrality of landscape in Zerbini's artistic practice, which transcends the limits of painting to manifest itself in multiple languages and experiments. His artistic production reveals itself as a veritable mosaic of shapes, colors, patterns and narratives, reflecting not only the artist's vision, but also his restlessness and sensitivity towards the world.
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Fruitures: Amazonian times [traveling exhibition]
03/26/2024 — 12/09/2024
Centro Cultural Vale do Maranhão, MA /
Casa de Cultura de Canaã dos Carajás, PA /
Centro Cultural de Paraupebas, PA /
Museu do Estado do Pará, PA Fruitures: Amazonian Times shows Amazonia at various points in time and from the point of view of its original peoples. Staged in 2021 at the Museum of Tomorrow (RJ), the exhibition will travel to four cities in the North and Northeast of Brazil, opening first at the Centro Cultural Vale Maranhão, on 26 March. The show looks at the challenges currently facing Amazonia and the plans already underway to ensure that it will survive into the future. The new social, environmental and economic model for the region is based on three main principles: scientific knowledge, traditional know-how, and a commitment to conservation of the forest. This exhibition is organized around these principles. It shows the beauties, the mysteries, and the urgent needs of the largest tropical forest on the planet.
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Blacks in the Pool
12/07/2022 — 05/14/2023
Pinacoteca do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE Blacks in the Pool immediately conjures up a subversive image. The idea of certain bodies being present in spaces that they have not been accustomed to occupying in the history of Brazil. Places of entertainment and relaxation, but not only this. The pool can also be seen to represent a decent home, food on the table, or access to good healthcare and education. The pool represents many things: partying and working, enjoyment and safety. The phrase also conjures up the idea of a desire and a need for a revolt against prohibitions. Against the impediments to the leading of a full life put in place by centuries of colonization and its more recent ramifications. Against the predations of certain groups and their descendants. It is a call to protest against the processes that have produced, over time, unequal opportunities for white and non-white bodies in their quest for autonomy. An asymmetry that is therefore grounded in the ethnic identity of each and every inhabitant of Brazil and in the color of their skin.
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Hiromi Nagakura to Amazônia with Ailton Krenak
02/28/2024 — 05/27/2024
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
The exhibition, organized by the Tomie Ohtake Institute with local production by Automatica, features 160 photographs by award-winning Japanese photographer Hiromi Nagakura. The photographer made five trips with environmental leader Ailton Krenak through the Amazon between 1993 and 1998, where you can see records of the Yanomami, Xavante, Krikati, Gavião, Yawanawá, Huni Kuin and Ashaninka indigenous nations. Curated by Krenak and assistant curated by Angela Pappiani, Eliza Otsuka and Priscyla Gomes, the show came from São Paulo and was expanded in Rio de Janeiro, with photos that were not present in the São Paulo edition of the exhibition and objects from the peoples visited.
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From Landscape to Intimacy
11/29/2024 — 01/26/2025
Galpão Bela Maré,
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Da paisagem à intimidade [From Landscape to Intimacy] brings together images by artists and photographers who, over the past 20 years, have participated in the Escola de Fotografia Popular [School of Popular Photography]— a project that has been fundamental in shaping new perspectives on popular spaces, through the lenses of the communities themselves.
With a rich diversity of visual narratives, the exhibition reveals the streets, alleys, popular festivals and traditional knowledge, captured from the unique perspective of favela residents, and is a reflection of their stories, struggles and affections. The images on display are living testimonies of transformations, achievements and memories that permeate the daily life of these territories, building a collective trajectory of resistance and affirmation of identity.
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