CLEARING AT THE MAC USP

THE CLARE

Clareira (in Tupi, Baependi) is an area with little vegetation or undergrowth located within a forest or woodland. Its conformation is fundamental for the renewal of the forest and for its diversity, as it functions as a kind of granary: there, new species can emerge and the existing ones ensure their survival and germination. In the case of the Amazon forest, for example, these are areas in which nomadic indigenous groups establish temporary settlements.

At the MAC USP, the "Clareira", installed in the ground floor of the Museum, place to welcome its visitors and to make contact with the "ground" of the city, inaugurates a site of diversity and renewal, receiving a programming with several forms of artistic manifestation, to which visual artists, musicians, performers, dancers, writers, actors, filmmakers, curators, directors are invited, configuring a place of exchanges and of artistic expression of diverse languages.

The program alternates punctual actions on Thursday nights, interspersed with two Visual Arts installations that endure through time. São Paulo Companhia de Dança, Teatro da Vertigem, Noemi Jaffé, Joel Pizzini, Livio Tragtenberg, Eduardo Monteiro, Angelo Venosa, Marcos Gallon, Ana Amorim, DC, Elilson, Julián Fuks, Natalia Timerman, Cristina Elias, César Meneghetti, Eugenio Puppo, Daniel Munduruku, Sonora and Lucia Koch are the artists and collectives that will configure the Clareira at MAC USP in 2021.

June
05/06 to 01/08 - Angelo Venosa
He is one of the few artists from the so-called "Geração 80" dedicated to sculpture. Since then he has laid the foundations of a trajectory that includes appearances at the Bienal de São Paulo (1987), Arte Brasileira Século XX (1987, Musée d'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris), Bienal de Veneza (1993) and Bienal do MERCOSUL (2005). The artist has several public sculptures installed in the country - in São Paulo, in the Jardim do Parque Ibirapuera, collection of the Museu de Arte Moderna and in the Jardim da Luz, collection of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
angelovenosa.com

August
5, 12 and 19/8 - Marcos Gallon (Guest curator)
Graduated in Philosophy at the Pontific Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). As a dancer and choreographer, he has worked for various dance companies in São Paulo. He is artistic director of Verbo - Mostra de Performance Arte, an annual platform created by Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo) in 2005. Organizer of Verbo - mostra de performance art (Ed. Tijuana, 2015). Guest curator at Clareira, Gallon presents the artists Ana Amorim, DC and Elilson.
galeriavermelho.com.br/en/verbo

5/8 - Ana Amorim
Graduated in Fine Arts (FAAP), with a master's degree in the United States (Ohio University) and studies in England and New Zealand, the artist proposes as poetics that her life is art and chooses to draw mental maps in books, at the end of every day, since 1988, as evidence of her being alive. This routine unfolds in different supports as a record of her drifts around the world. Grande tela (1989), Grande tela (1990) and O espectro de cor da minha vida (1989) are part of the MAC USP collection.

12/8 - DC
DC works in a transversal way in the field of Visual Arts. For nine years she has been a mediator in exhibition spaces in art institutions. She has given lectures in Switzerland, Vevey and Lausanne. She dedicates herself to the project Their children also practice, in which she uses prostitution as a working and investigative tool, approaching boys between the ages of 18 and 25, white, rich and self-declared heterosexuals. In this project, he seeks to cultivate dialogue and listening in the realm of race, class, gender and sexuality.

19/8 - Elilson
Artist and teacher, graduated in Literature (UFPE), master in Performing Arts (UFRJ). He received a scholarship from EAV's Training and Deformation Program - Parque Lage (2018), awarded in Rumos Itaú Cultural and by EDP nas Artes of Tomie Ohtake Institute. As an educator he conceived and supervised the Educativo of the XII Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo. He published Por uma mobilidade performativa (Editora Temporária, 2017) and Mobilidade [inter]urbana-performativa (Rumos Itaú Cultural, 2019).

26/8 - Julián Fuks
The Occupation (Companhia das Letras, 2019). He is the author of Stories of literature and blindness (2007) and Search for the novel (2011), both finalists for the Jabuti and Portugal Telecom awards, and the novel The Resistance (2015 , translated into five languages and winner of the Jabuti Book of the Year Fiction and Best Novel awards in 2016), Saramago (2017) and Anna Seghers (2018). He was elected by Granta magazine "one of the best young Brazilian writers". At Clareira he will be reading extracts from The Occupation.

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CLAREIRA MAC USP
June 2021 to February 2022
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