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Exhibition "Small Polished Stones - Tiles in the Sesc Collection and in other collections".
Exhibition

Exhibition "Small Polished Stones - Tiles in the Sesc Collection and in other collections".

Exhibition

  • Nome: Exposição "Pequenas Pedras Polidas – Azulejaria no Acervo Sesc e em outras coleções"
  • Abertura: 15 de junho 2022
  • Visitação: até 15 de janeiro 2023

Local

  • Venue: SESC Santo André
  • Online Event: No
  • Address: R. Tamarutaca, 302 - Vila Guiomar, Santo André

Small Polished Stones - Tiles in the Sesc Collection and in other collections

 

Exhibition at the Sesc Santo André investigates the use of the tile in Brazilian artistic production, evoking the diversity of languages between modern authors such as Athos Bulcão, Alfredo Volpi, Flavio de Carvalho and contemporaries such as Regina Silveira, Sandra Cinto and Rosana Paulino

 

 

Extensive research into the production of tiles, a material seen both in art and architecture as a traditional Brazilian "know-how", has resulted in Pequenas Pedras Polidas, which the Santo André Sesc inaugurates on Wednesday 15 June. The exhibition, based on the Sesc Art Collection, establishes dialogues with works by artists from other collections.

 

With about 50 works, 28 belonging to the Sesc de Arte collection, the exhibition, curated by Yuri Quevedo, presents artists identified with modernism and contemporary names, which mainly reflect the collection of the house. In the show, large tile panels are represented in photos, while silkscreen prints, drawings and studies indicate models for application on large surfaces. There are also works in which the artists use the tile as a canvas; and others, in the compositions of their paintings, photographs and printing techniques. 

 

The ten panels installed in the Sesc units, illustrated in the show with photographs by Everton Ballardin, are by the artists: Vicente de Mello (24 de Maio), Coletivo Muda (Birigui, 2017), Sandra Cinto (Santo André, 2011), Hudinilson Jr. (Pompeia, 2004), Sergio Niculitcheff (3 works, Pinheiros, 2004), Regina Silveira (Santo André, 2002), Takashi Fukushima (Santo André, 2002) and Antonio Paim Vieira (Bertioga, 1948).   

 

According to the curator, this is a collection that investigates the technique, and the possibilities it brings to a relationship with other languages - in particular, the questions it poses for drawing. "The modular grid offered by tiles, organizes, amplifies and distorts drawings - constituting a virtual environment where ideas expand by gaining walls, attesting phenomena, building landscapes, questioning uses and distorting conventions," he says.

 

In an exhibition that observes the art of tiles, Athos Bulcão could not be missing, warns the curator. From the artist, the Sesc de Arte collection holds the silkscreen prints that created the iconic panels: Igrejinha de Nossa Senhora de Fátima in Brasília (1957), commissioned by first lady Sara Kubistchek; Congresso Nacional (1971); Instituto Rio Branco (1998); and Instituto de Artes da Universidade de Brasília (2000). In addition to the serigraphs, the exhibition also features photos of the installed panels.   

 

In Small Polished Stones you will find other precious items, such as the serigraphs, drawings and studies made by Rubens Gerchman for the tiles of the swimming pool, changing rooms and food court of Sesc Pompeia (1977-1984), during the work of Lina Bo Bardi, author of the architectural project for the unit.

 

Among the artists who work on tiles directly, there are works by Alfredo Volpi, Flavio de Carvalho, Roberto Burle Marx, Lothar Charoux, Sidney Amaral and Cristina Pape, while Rosana Paulino, Ding Musa, Alex Valauri, Eduardo Coimbra and Flavio Damm integrate the image of the object in their productions. Tiago Gualberto presents the only work commissioned especially for the show, the intervention Mirrored Sky (paint on plastic adhesive).

 

"The tile has often been used as a foundation and resource of modern projects with diverse objectives. More recently, the technique has also been thought of as a mark and form of colonisation, a way that indicates a past of imposition and violence and that can be evoked with the aim of denouncing or subverting it," adds the curator.

 

 

ABOUT THE SESC ART COLLECTION

 

The Sesc Art Collection represents a cultural heritage of the institution and is a support for the work of cultural and educational action in the visual arts language. Its more than two thousand and six hundred works are distributed among the units in the capital, coast and interior of the State of São Paulo. Preserving and disseminating this collection corresponds to one of its multiple commitments to the democratization of access to culture. This process is materialized by stimulating sensitivity and learning to see through direct contact between the public and the work of art.

 

It is observed in the Sesc Art Collection its diverse existence related to styles, techniques and its constant expansion. It proposes an experience of exchange, a meeting between viewer and work, arousing sensations, curiosity and involvement. Distinguished by its educational vocation, the Collection dialogues with the public, offering work-space interactions, incorporating the architecture and curatorial clippings of Sesc's programmatic activities.

 

The works are permanently exhibited at the regional units, sometimes in unconventional spaces such as swimming pools, eateries and gymnasiums. They can be part of temporary exhibitions, establishing relationships with other works and being part of specific discussions in each project.

 

Exhibition Service

 

Small Polished Stones - Tiles in the Sesc Collection and in other collections

From 15 June 2022 to 15 January 2023. Gallery Space of the Unit
Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 10pm
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, 10am to 7pm

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