Hospedar Movimento" exhibition

The Parque Lage Visual Arts School, the Ministry of Tourism, the Special Secretariat of Culture and the Vale Cultural Institute Vale present

Host Movement

The Library | Documentation and Research Centre Documentation and Research exhibits, from 5 May, a collection of images posters and historical documents that show how the actions that have taken place at EAV history are in dialogue with fundamental themes of today's world.

The School of Visual Arts Parque Lage has a series of documents, photos and posters that revisit its its trajectory, but also those of other focal points of Brazilian culture. Shedding light on this heritage, the school invites the public to get to know the project "Hosting Movement" project, in which the Library | Documentation and Research Centre investigates moments in which that EAV has contributed to the expansion of narratives from other institutions. Thus, it shows how key themes today, such as memory and equality have been the focus of events throughout its history. The exhibition at Parque Lage, which is linked to the State Secretariat for Culture and Creative Economy of Rio Rio de Janeiro, can be visited from May 5 to June 19, 2022.

The selected documentation spans different decades, on varied themes. The manifestations around the reconstruction of the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), after the 1978 fire, are an an emblematic example of this relationship. On the episode, there are letters from the reconstruction committee, newspaper clippings, an article by Mario Pedrosa imagining what the new MAM the new MAM and a Rubens Gerchman drawing, in protest.

At into the library, visitors to EAV are presented with a collection of covers of the covers of the "Lampião Newspaper". The periodical published by Francisco Bittencourt between the years 1978 and 1981, which had its first editions printed at the school, represents an important front of struggle of the Brazilian homosexual movement movement, but also of the resistance of indigenous communities, of Afro-Brazilian Afro-Brazilian and feminist movements. In October 1989, the space first posthumous exhibition of Arthur Bispo do Rosário, who died in July. July. A catalogue in the form of a newspaper gives the dimension of the artist's work. More recently, in 2018 and 19, the Slam of Minas occupied the Palacete with the aim of increasing the visibility and acceptance of bodies that exhibit a non-hegemonic standard.

"Host Movement" resumes a project that had two editions before the pandemic, both in 2019. The first was "Hosting Lélia Gonzalez," recalling the first course on black culture at EAV, in 1976, taught by the anthropologist and PUC-RJ professor who became a reference in Brazil. The second was "Hosting Eco-Sensorial", which revisited the exhibition "Eco-Sensorial - urban extractivism", held in 1992 by the artists at EAV in dialogue with ECO-92.

Director of EAV, Alberto Saraiva calls attention to the goal of fostering debate around the archives of the Memória Lage project. "In this sense, discussions are raised about fundamental fundamental themes for today, always based on the historical documentation of events that took place at Parque Lage. In the first edition, with 'Hospedando Lélia Gonzalez', the Library revisited the legacy of the first black woman to lecture institutionally lectured institutionally in Brazil in 1976. In the 2022 edition, the school recalls periods when it hosted the publication of 'Lampião Magazine' in the 1970s, which which discussed avant-garde themes".

"Hosting Movement" represents the resumption of the library's broader activities, notes Rúbia Luiza da Silva, EAV librarian. "After two years without any internal activity in this space, we in this space, we reopen remembering that this is a place not only focused on study and silence, it has a vocation as a cultural space, from the rescue of memory".

O material will be on display at EAV Library from 10am to 6pm, Monday to Thursday, from 5 May to 19 June. Exceptionally, in the month of May 2022, the Library will not open on Tuesdays and will operate from 1pm to 6pm on Thursdays. Thursdays.

O Hospedar Movimento" project is sponsored by the Vale Cultural Institute through the Federal Law for Cultural Incentives.

About EAV Parque Lage

The School of Visual Arts was created in 1975 by artist Rubens Gerchman, to replace the Institute of Fine Arts (IBA). Its emergence took place in the middle of the during the Cold War in Latin America, during the period of strong censorship and military censorship and military repression in Brazil. EAV is historically affirmed for its avant-garde character vanguard, as a landmark of non-conformity to borders and categories, and regularly regularly poses questions to society through the valorisation of artistic thought.

Some striking examples of the history of Parque Lage are the use of the palace as the seat of Alecrim city government in Terra em Transe, directed by Glauber Rocha in 1967; and the exhibition "How are you doing, Generation 80? 123 young artists of different tendencies in an exhibition that celebrated freedom freedom and the end of the military regime. The eclectic-style palace was also the stage for The eclectic palace was also the setting for Shakespearean classic "Midsummer Night's Dreams" and as the location for Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's Macunaíma.

The School of Visual Arts Parque Lage's School of Visual Arts focuses primarily on the field of contemporary visual arts visual arts, with emphasis on their interdisciplinary and transversal aspects. transversal aspects. It also encompasses other fields of artistic expression (music dance, cinema, theatre), as well as the literary, seen in their relations with visuality. visuality. EAV's activities include both artistic practices and conceptual its conceptual foundations.

EAV Parque Lage is configured as an open educational centre for the training of artists and professionals in the field of contemporary art. As a national reference, with a consistent image in the art world, EAV seeks to create internal mechanisms and and lines of external action that allow a productive dialogue with the city and with the the national and international art circuit. The institution is part of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

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"Host Movement"

Date: 5 May to 19 June

In May: Mondays and Wednesdays from 10am to 18h. Thursdays from 1pm to 6pm. Exceptionally, the library will not work on Tuesdays in May.

In June: Monday to Thursday from 10 am to 6 pm, until 19th.

Free entry. A Library | Documentation and Research Centre is located in the Palacete da EAV Parque Lage. To visit it is necessary to make a prior booking through the site: eavparquelage.rj.gov.br/horarios-de-visitacao

School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage

Jardim Botânico Street Botânico Street, nº 414

Rio de Janeiro Janeiro | RJ

Website: http://eavparquelage.rj.gov.br/

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WhatsApp: (21) 99232-8162 | Phone: (21) 2334-4297 | The opening hours are from 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.