Exhibitions "Letter to intentions" and "Rebu" | Parque Lage

Letter to intentions and Rebu

 

EAV Parque Lage shows works by students in two exhibitions

 

Exhibitions reflect the journeys of the members of the institution's free training programmes

 

Two exhibitions, in three different spaces, will present to the public the paths taken by the students of the training programmes of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage (EAV) throughout 2021. In Capelinha, a space annexed to the Park's Stables, will be opened Letter to intentionson the 20th of December, gathering works by the members of the "Formation Program", aimed at students interested in approaching the field of art..

 

Based on a guideline that guides EAV's practices in understanding that school is not the only possible space for learning and making art, the exhibition Rebu will take place in two parallel locations: at the Stables (from December 20th) and at 5 Bocas Galleryin Brás de Pina (from December 18). The exhibition, which presents works by the artists who took the "Training and Defomation Programme", includes interventions in the Palacete and in the green area of the Park.

 

"The idea is to show what kind of function and experience with art is possible and interesting, not only bringing new audiences to EAV, but taking our knowledge, our students and our circulation to other spaces, in order to discuss any supposed centrality," says the institution's curator, Ulisses Carrilho who shares the curatorship of Rebu with professor Clarissa Diniz.

 

The proposal to split the exhibition Rebu in two spaces was also motivated by the fact that one of the students of the Allan Weberis the owner of 5 Bocas Gallery. This year, the members of the group had the challenge of thinking about space, time and displacement.

 

"The students' works reflect their multiple visions and are a mirror of the diversity that we seek in these programmes. We are happy to be able to share with the cariocas and other visitors a little of what we have been learning from them. We also invite all agents of the art field to meet our students and discover new ways of making and living art", says the School's director, Yole Mendonça.

 

Thinking about time is not exactly an easy task, especially when a pandemic seems to have altered perceptions. "For me, it was very important to understand how my work would play out in this world post or during Covid," notes Almeida da Silva, a participant in the programme. "I was able to think not only about time, but about cosmologies, invisibility and ancestry in its various spheres," he adds.

 

Besides Almeida da Silva and Allan Weber, Rebu has works by Ana Hortides, André Vargas, Anis Yaguar, Bruno Magliari, Carla Santana, Elisa Maciel, Esther Blay, Loren Minzú, Luiz Camaleão, Mayara Veloso, Patfudyda, Derrete e Tainan Cabral.

 

If Rebu works with a general idea of time, Letter to intentions, curated by Natalia Nichols e Camilla Rocha Camposstarted from 15 intentions that, throughout eight months, could be amplified, contorted, contradicted, expanded and confirmed. The exhibition reflects an invitation made to the class at the very beginning of the Training Programme, in March this year: to dive into the narratives and counter-narratives of art, a leap into the complexity of this field full of possibilities and pitfalls.

 

During the meetings, the students were led to get to know and deepen concepts, theories, practices, histories, people and places that make up the art system. "The exhibition reveals very diverse understandings of art and the way each of the 15 participants situates themselves in it," explains curator Camila.

 

The programme functions as an introductory course in contemporary art and culture, working on different ways of relating to contemporary art narratives and their political, social, cultural and historical relations. At the beginning, they drew up a letter of intentions, in which they dealt with dreams, goals, starting points and paths. The exhibition presents, precisely, some of the concerns nurtured throughout the program.

 

Participate in Letter to intentionsthe students Thamires Fortunato, Izah Beyaz, Osmar Paulino, Vida Teixeira, Idra Maria, Alex Reis, Mapô, Stéphane Marçal, Loren Stainff, Sophie, Mayra Carvalho, Ludi-K, Ana Paula Mello, Kaue Rodrigo and Ywyzar Guajajara.

 

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 takes place in the middle of the Cold War in Latin America, during the period of strong censorship and military repression in Brazil. EAV is historically affirmed for its avant-garde character, as a landmark of non-conformity to borders and categories, and regularly proposes questions to society through the appreciation of artistic thought.

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

EAV 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, it seeks to create internal mechanisms and lines of external action that allow a productive dialogue with the city and with the national and international art circuits. The institution is part of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Some striking examples of the history of Parque Lage are the use of the palace as the seat of government of the town of Alecrim, in Land in Transedirected by Glauber Rocha in 1967; and the exhibition "How Are You, Generation 80?"which brought together 123 young artists of different tendencies in an exhibition celebrating freedom and the end of the military regime. The eclectic-style palace also played host to Shakespearean classic "Sonhos de uma noite de verão" and was the location for Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's Macunaíma.

 

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Visual Arts School of Parque Lage

Rua Jardim Botânico, 414 - Rio de Janeiro

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

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Letter of intent

Venue: Chapel of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage

Opening: 20 December, from 6pm to 10pm

Visiting: from 9am to 5pm, Thursday to Tuesday, until 16th February

 

Rebu

Venue: Stables of the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage

Opening: 20 December, from 6pm to 10pm

Visiting: from 9am to 5pm, Thursday to Tuesday, until 16th February

 

Note: The palace will be exceptionally closed on 18/12, 25/12 and 01/01/2022. On 12/24 and 12/31, visitation will be from 9am to 2pm. No appointment is required to visit the exhibition or the green area, only to visit the Palacete.

 

Rebu

Venue: Galeria 5 Bocas, Brás de Pina

Opening: 18 December, 4 p.m.

881 Taborari Street - Brás de Pina

Visitation: daily(?), from 10 am to 8 pm