Me, the other and the environment" exhibition

The exhibition "Me, the Other and the Medium" is a collective work of the artists Bruna Rinaldi, Debora Knittel, Eliane Matos, Lilian Grunebaum and Mariane Chicarino, who worked together during the pandemic, which culminated in artistic processes, each one in its own specificities, sensitive works, constructed of thoughts and reflections about themselves and society. They will present works with varied techniques, from paintings, collages, monotypes, installation (Site Specific) where they will express their fragilities of everyday narratives.

Opening 27.05.2022 at 6pm. 
The exhibition will be held from 28 May to 26 June 2022 
At Casagaleria and Art Workshop - Rua Fradique Coutinho, 1216, Pinheiros - São Paulo/SP

FREEDOM OF BEGINNINGS
Loly Demercian, 2022

According to the Danish theorist Simon Sheikh, the field of art has become a field of possibilities for exchange and comparative analysis. It has become an area of thought, of alternativity and can act as an intermediary between different thoughts and modes of perception, as well as between positions and subjectivities.

In this sense the artists Debora Knittel, Eliane Matos, Lilian Grunebaum, Mariane Chicarino and Bruna Rinaldi got together in times of pandemic, together with Professor Dimitrov, and put into practice their daily experiences and their ways of seeing the impacts caused by the pandemic, in artistic expressions, each with its own specificity. No longer in an artistic production, but in the articulation of thoughts that run through the visual communication - not exclusively - of subtle thoughts in the contemporary.

As Walter Benjamin pointed out, [...] the memory is the complement of 'experience', in which is sedimented the growing self-alienation of the human being that inventories his past as dead property. In the 19th century, allegory left the outer world to establish itself in the inner world. The relic comes from the corpse, the memory, from the dead experience which, euphemistically, is called vivencia.

The artists' productions took place fundamentally under the impacts of the pandemic, seeking to give forms to their cultures and ancestries, resulting in their deepest thoughts. Aesthetic productions were created in the most varied artistic concepts. A true catharsis of feelings and deepening in their research. Their singularities are explicit in the right measure.

The artist Debora Knittel, psychopedagogue, has already written some children's books. In her research she explores natural materials, such as, for example, vegetable pigments on banana fiber. As if the materials had a memory of existence, that is, the impermanence of things in this world. Always wishing to be in contact with these issues of coexisting in this world and not separating, being together and in full contact with ecology, Krenak, in his book "Life is not useful", said that: [...] our ignorance in not understanding and treating the Earth as a living organism, with its own language with which we must interact beyond the predatory consumption of its riches.

The artist adds: "My gaze and heart go through ancestral traditions, the knowledge of cycles, the waters of the rivers and seas, the woods and forests, the amplitude of the sky, all corners of the Earth that reveal the web of this magnificent biodiversity of macro and microcosms".
The artist Lilian Grunebaum graduated in Architecture and Urbanism. She worked for years as an interior designer. Her current research has historical references and confrontation with the heritage of Jewish tradition, approaching individual memories and expanding them to collective memories, so present in contemporary art. In his work "Tecendo trajetórias", 2022, and the installation "União, 2022", which are braids and threads, with reference to certain procedures of Tunga, he wants to produce an analogy or meeting of sculptural energies and ancestral energies, introducing a tension between image and matter that puts in suspension the meaning we have of the object.

The artist Bruna Rinaldi is a student of psychology and in her current research presents compositions in monotypes that work on the fragility of everyday narratives, dialoguing and transposing the impressions of a transitory permanence and impermanence. Impermanence, because her investigated object was plastic, much talked and discussed during the pandemic, as if plastic was the wall between people (the plastic material that is disposable, that is voluble).

In her work "Qual o meio possível do toque", 2022 (an installation), Bruna seeks to analyse the potentiality of forms and transparencies, while demonstrating an awareness and attention to the structural forces of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional field of the support.
Eliane Matos graduated in Fashion Design. Her creativity of aesthetic construction stems from a spiritual perspective. Situating herself in the history of art, we can see that Eliane has painting as a process, sharing the need to express herself through the immediate and spontaneous act of painting. As representatives of this way of seeing painting we highlight: Rotko, Pollock and Newman, in Action Painting, the gesture and the brush stroke , in Eliane's case the finger, express themselves more than any other meaning that is external to it; the process of painting represents the content of the painting.

The artist Mariane Chicarino is graduated in advertising and marketing, but her true passion has always been the art that she studied and developed in parallel, and to which today she dedicates herself fully. In her current researches, Mariane observes her daily life, the trivial life, the pop culture as artistic manifestation. From collages, paintings, superimpositions of images, colours, each figure in her paintings represents something, according to pop culture. Collage reveals three things, namely: first, a mixture of fascination and irony in relation to symbols; second, the significance of collage as typical of POP, derived from cubist, dadaist and surrealist practice; third, the intelligence and sophistication of a composition full of allusions and ambiguities.