Words Extend
FLAP鈥橲 Brazilian Art Museum presents "Words Extend", an exhibition featuring 80 works from its long-term holdings, as well as 9 pieces by guest artists.
Laura Suzana Rodr铆guez鈥檚 curatorial design takes in a long period of Brazilian art history from the 1940s to the present day to highlight the presence and power of the written word in visual arts. There is poetic intervention, mordant criticism of the status quo, indecipherable spellings that instigate viewers and titles that extend meanings 鈥� in every case the written word is there to add different meanings and alternative interpretations.
Several types of text are featured: biblical quotations, place names, affirmations, commands, appeals for help, reports of wrongdoing, excerpts from stories or poems.
In paintings from the 1940s to the 1980s, the word is part of composition: there is a group for postal or mail art from the 1970s and 1980s made by artists who were active during the dictatorship and more recent items that are purely textual or showing a artist's process in which language is highlighted, besides three-dimensional works, drawings, prints, engravings and videos.
More than 40 artists will be presented. As a means of encouraging discussion, relationships and dynamics between works, four more guest artists will be temporarily added in 2019. In the first semester, Walmor Corr锚a and Regina Parra will be showing pieces that reflect on women's roles in history.
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FLAP鈥橲 Brazilian Art Museum presents "Words Extend", an exhibition featuring 80 works from its long-term holdings, as well as 9 pieces by guest artists.
Laura Suzana Rodr铆guez鈥檚 curatorial design takes in a long period of Brazilian art history from the 1940s to the present day to highlight the presence and power of the written word in visual arts. There is poetic intervention, mordant criticism of the status quo, indecipherable spellings that instigate viewers and titles that extend meanings 鈥� in every case the written word is there to add different meanings and alternative interpretations.
Several types of text are featured: biblical quotations, place names, affirmations, commands, appeals for help, reports of wrongdoing, excerpts from stories or poems.
In paintings from the 1940s to the 1980s, the word is part of composition: there is a group for postal or mail art from the 1970s and 1980s made by artists who were active during the dictatorship and more recent items that are purely textual or showing a artist's process in which language is highlighted, besides three-dimensional works, drawings, prints, engravings and videos.
More than 40 artists will be presented. As a means of encouraging discussion, relationships and dynamics between works, four more guest artists will be temporarily added in 2019. In the first semester, Walmor Corr锚a and Regina Parra will be showing pieces that reflect on women's roles in history.
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