exhibition:

the distance between you and stanley brouwn
each time you remember this sentence

org. deyson gilbert

opening september 2nd 2023, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

perhaps the first point would be to avoid a possible mistake: that of granting to the brouwnian invisibility a certain impervious body contour

as if its negativity could fatally carve in the air the bone of a transfigured aesthetic apparition

as if his image refusal should necessarily impose on our eyes the ignis fatuus of an aesthetic halo hypostasis

as if, by turning off the lights in a locked room full of live and dead cats, we could metaphysically scream, despite all the clotted blood:

yes! yes!

here all cats are brown!

s.a. talking about s.b. in an interview to d.g.

© igno cuypers

Event:

Robert Smithson: Artforum, 1966-73 read by Carlos Fajardo

june 21st, 2023
wednesday, 6:30p.m.

Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri
Alameda Franca, 1054

São Paulo

As part of the exhibition Forse che sì, forse che no / Talvez sim, talvez não Antônio Ewbank and Wallace V. Masuko invite Carlos Fajardo to a reading of Robert Smithson: Artforum, 1966-73. The book gathers Smithson's texts published in Artforum magazine and highlights the importance of the graphics of the artist's writings for the debate on his production from the 60s onwards.

Antônio Ewbank, a visual artist, and researcher, has dedicated himself to translating Smithson's written work, taking into account aspects such as the design of the texts, the use of images, the typography, and the context in which these magazines circulated. The book's graphic layout is by artist Wallace V. Masuko. The option for a facsimile edition, or exactly like the original, is linked to the impossibility of separating the verbal and the visual in the artist's work and indicates a critical perspective of translation.

The publication, launched by Editora Ébria, was supported by the Holt/Smithson Foundation and the moraes-barbosa collection.

The book can be purchased on June 21st during the activity, at the exhibition at cmb or at Editora Ébria.

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The exhibition Terra-Palavras (org. Antônio Ewbank and Wallace V. Masuko) will remain on display until August 5th, 2023

Travessa Dona Paula, 120 - São Paulo - SP, Wednesday to Friday, from 1 pm to 7 pm, Saturdays from 11 am to 7 pm.

Event:

Art and anesthesia: image and absence at the abyss of high mechanical reproduction

Friday the 19th of may at 2:30pm, Cris Ambrosio and Deyson Gilbert will present “art and anesthesia: image and absence at the abyss of high mechanical reproduction”- coleção moraes- barbosa - at the Colégio das Artes, Universidade de Coimbra. Free admission.

Colégio das Artes
Apartado 3066
3001-401 Coimbra

Portugal

Exhibition and newly published translation

EARTH-WORDS, Robert Smithson: Artforum 1966-73

org. Antônio Ewbank and Wallace V. Masuko

opening on may 6th 2023, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

visits until august 8th 2023

Robert Smithson's sculptural language is not limited to objects commonly found in museums and galleries, nor to large-scale projects that explore large spaces outside urban centers. It also links his textual production, published mainly in North American art magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. With the support of the Holt/Smithson Foundation and the moraes-barbosa collection, Robert Smithson: Artforum 1966-73 is launched on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the artist's death, containing all the texts published in that magazine, and for the first time, in a fac-simile translation. Simultaneously, the exhibition Earth-Words [Terra-palavras] addresses Smithson's sculptural thought process with a set of graphic pieces that are part of cmb.

The publication can be purchased directly from Editora Ébria, or at cmb: Travessa Dona Paula, 120 - São Paulo - SP, wednesdays to fridays, from 1p.m. to 7p.m., saturdays from 11a.m. to 7p.m.

Public talk:

ANESTESIA, ANISTIA, AMNESIA: Regina José Galindo

29 march 2023
7 p.m. BRT

mediated by
Tom Nóbrega and Cris Ambrosio

The recording is now available here.

Program of Texts: A peripheral cosmogony: On the 6th São Paulo Art Biennial

Erica Ferrari

Pedrosa's proposal for the 6th Biennial sought to remove the works of contemporary artists from the specialized isolation of modern art museums, then in vogue. By ending specialization, he contradicted the traditional historiography of art, which imposed on certain works and objects the label of “predecessors”: Aboriginal, Hindu, Baroque and the European 1800s, and Latin American art seem to ricochet in the photos of the construction of Brasília, in Alicia Penalba's bronzes, in Lygia Clark's Critter.

Exhibition:

ANESTESIA, ANISTIA, AMNESIA: Regina José Galindo

org. Cris Ambrosio and Pontogor. With presentation by Tom Nóbrega

Program of Texts: Of glass. Why does it not recoil, or die?

Laila Terra

It is necessary to understand more than the elementary set that makes the Farnsworth House an aesthetic sign. It is necessary to enter the historical context of the language that encompasses this specific sign, because every language is consigned to a certain time and space. It is necessary to identify the discourse ascribed to the house and to the characters who occupied it in the different situations. Who was Mies van der Rohe when he was hired by Edith, and what were the enunciations concerning him? Who was Edith Farnsworth, the contractor, and how was she represented by history (from 1940 to 2020)? When was the house designed and where? What are the constructive elements proposed by Mies? What was Edith's reaction after the house was finished and what did that entail? And, finally, what happened to the house over time (from 1951 to 2020)? Finally, with these data, we can confront the discourses.

Exhibition:

The Bargain

Khadyg Fares (org.)

The exhibition presents works whose common ground are clashes inherent to the asymmetry of forces, for agreements permeated by tension, in which images, memories, gestures and sounds are disputed. The gathered artworks and materials express power dynamics, repetitions and bargains, and bear marks of an internal and external colonialism.

Program of Texts: The fire between past and future

Nathalia Colli

Five hundred and forty-nine thousand people killed by the coronavirus in Brazil, the dollar rate continues to rise, millions of unemployed and millions of homeless have can be counted. Central headline “Statue of Borba Gato is set on fire in the south of São Paulo, two were arrested”. This is a screenshot of a newspaper page from July 24, 2021. Nobody was hurt. Except the two prisoners. The blacks.

Program of Texts: The reflection of the knife

Caio Bonifácio and Renata Masini Hein

The gesture of refusal and the expression on Iole's face when facing her reflection in the mirror demonstrate an eloquent confrontation with her own body - a closed body, as if imposing, to a repression. The hardness of an armor of emphatic refusal, of a body that confronts at the same time that it retreats. The knife is ambiguously a symbol of violence: it is just an instrument, which, depending on who wields it, is capable of repressing or releasing.

Exhibition: 4 videos by Leslie Thornton

org. Cris Ambrosio, Deyson Glibert, Frederico Filippi and Pontogor

A warp of voices, images, overlapping accounts and descriptions, ethical crossroads and scientific meditations appear in the production of American artist Leslie Thornton since its beginnings in the 1970s. This exhibition, whose title comes from the first film in the 'Peggy and Fred in Hell', covers works from different moments in Thornton's career and focuses on the experimental ‘There was an Unseen Cloud Moving’ (1988).

Program of Texts: “Avoid the North American part because there is only television, you hear?”

Cássia Hosni

The inclusion of moving images into the exhibitions of the São Paulo Biennial in the early 1970s can be seen as a setting of technical, aesthetic, and geopolitical conflict. Such conflicts proliferated due to the very model adopted by the event (and abandoned only in 2006, in its 27th edition), which was based on national representations wherein the invited countries pay for the transport of works and equipment—and therefore have the final word on what will be displayed.

Exhibition: Horror Vacui

Pontogor (org.)

The moraes-barbosa collection presents the exhibition Horror Vacui, organized by the artist and collection’s former fellowship holder. The exhition presents itself as an unfolding development of Pontogor’s research results in the collection’s archive, investigating the different renderings of emptiness in art.

“The desire to see is thus diverted into an invitation to act; the relations between what and how is being represented coalesce in the production of a subjectivity in making.”*
*excerpt from the text 'The Blind Viewer' by Helena Vilalta.

Program of Texts: Creation and care in mixing vibrating/material bodies

jialu pombo

The intertwining between life and death that Lygia talks about is what I call the expression of vulnerability-force: there is a force present in an embryo that carries potential information of life, and for such a life to come into existence, whatever carries it needs to open its hand to its form, reach the height of its vulnerability, and blend in to germinate something else.

Program of Texts: Rayban

Wallace V Masuko

There are 6 or 8 plastic faces, the same faces oppose each other, the different faces touch each other, the scratches are internal and the stiff white threads fill them, the events take place on or around the surfaces.

Program of Texts:
Arc

Frederico Filippi
While in the late 1960s artists are isolating themselves in the North American deserts, tractors and backhoes are opening immense trenches in an absolutely humid territory, where you can't see the horizon with your feet on the ground, maybe not even three meters ahead, and yet it's considered infinite.

Ethics of Collecting:

c mb

The moraes-barbosa collection is co-founder of the Code of Conduct for Contemporary Art Collectors. The initiative aims to set ethical duties for those who own artworks towards such artworks, their authors, and the professional environment surrounding them.
Click to access Ethics of Collecting.

Exhibition: Possession State: notes for an aesthetic of torture

19/11
Cris Ambrosio & Deyson Gilbert (org.)

𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯:
In a strict sense, ideological drama established in the field of conscience by the conflict of one or more entities that claim, all at once, control over the same countenance. In a dilated form, a crossroaded category: a spiritual path of beings butchered by the historical and political blades of the territories, bodies, and symbols (demonology of weights, wills and the owned). In a direct puncture: misalliance and fractured conciliation between images, things, and inclinations. In essence: the exorcism of the eyes against the sweat of the hands and the drool of the assholes.

This November, cmb will launch its new space with a showing of part of its archive and collection.

Research:
1^st cycle

c mb

For 6 months, Antônio Ewbank, Bruno Baptistelli, Erica Ferrari, Pontogor and Tom Nóbrega received a research grant to develop their work in intersection with the moraes-barbosa collection’s archive.