Monday 31 October 2011

RICARDO DE CASTRO, NEW WORK AND HOME/STUDIO VISIT IN SAO PAULO


Mr Ricardo de Castro at his home/studio/office in Higienopolis neighbourhood in Sao Paulo




Ricardo de Castro, new works from the Acumulo series, abstract vinyl cutouts on framed glass


jungle corridor of joy

Mr. Castro's terrace

you can see Ricardo de Castro's 2008 White Cubicle exhibition here
also more of his work at Casa Triangulo
and read about Abravanation, the movement created by de Castro here

Sunday 30 October 2011

CASSIA TABATINI AND DUDU BERTHOLINI, NEON HOME INTERIORS, SAO PAULO


neon by Kleber Mattheus


folk and African prints and textiles


prints by Neon



avaf wall piece


corals and african objects



cheetah prints


toucan room




While in Sao Paulo I was very lucky to stay with my Paulista family in the flat in Higienopolis photographer Cassia Tabatini shares with Neon's fashion designer Dudu Berthonlini.
http://www.cassiatabatini.co.uk/
http://www.neonbrazil.com.br/

Saturday 29 October 2011

WHITE CUBICLE SAO PAULO: CUBICULO BRANCO PRESENTS YURI FIRMEZA AT UVA PASSARO


outside Uva Passaro


looking eye installed in the door of the toilet


Étant donnés inside the White Cubicle


collapse of the ceiling, chocolate penises hanging from above for visitors to use and play with




artist Yuri Firmeza inside the White Cubicle



Sandy playing with the art


Fabio Kawallys clothes for sale


presentation of Nova Cartografia Tropical in Sao Paulo


Uva Passarinho host Tica Bertani


tasting the art


Ca and Gui


friendly Ilan


Fabio and friend


Adriano and Gui with opening ribbon


PLB and Lau

WHITE CUBICLE SAO PAULO:
CUBICULO BRANCO PRESENTS YURI FIRMEZA AT UVA PASSARO
28 October · 20:00 - 24:00
Uva Passaro, Rua Bartira, 1042 - Perdizes, Sao Paulo
tel.: (11) 3673-2376

Nesta ocasião, a convite de Kiki Mazzucchelli, a White Cubicle se instala no banheiro do Uva Pássaro, em São Paulo, e busca mostrar situações mais radicais e não decorativas. A presença da White Cubicle em São Paulo é uma resposta ao contexto econômico atual do circuito de arte brasileiro e sua crescente mercantilização, e com isso busca contribuir para repensar estratégias alternativas de circulação da arte e seu público. O artista convidado para esta edição da White Cubicle é Yuri Firmeza.

Sobre Yuri Firmeza:
Eu poderia dizer que hoje me aventuro nos sustenidos de uma flauta transversal. Que deslizo sobre as ondas desde criança. Que quando me perguntam: o que é ser artista? eu finjo ser surdo – a vontade de essência me ensurdece. Eu choro de alegria ao ler Manoel de Barros dizer: Não sou biografável. Ou, talvez seja. Em Dez linhas.
Deixo as minhas linhas para a costura de Miguel Bezerra:
“Yuri não é filho de algo ou alguém, nem nasceu em lugar algum. Yuri sequer é Yuri. Nem se quisesse poderia. Não nascemos para sermos nós. É, antes, fagulha riscando espaços, continuação abrupta do que cega em cada deslocar; dança entre um caldeirão ausente e o estrondo de um raio branco”.
A WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERY nasceu em janeiro de 2005, no banheiro feminino do pub George and Dragon, em Londres. Mede 1,40 x 1,40m e funciona sem orçamento, equipe ou fronteiras. Desde então, a White Cubicle tem apresentado um programa de manifestações locais e internacionais que funcionam como antídoto à cena artística hipercomercial de Londres. Exposições passadas incluíram o trabalho de Deborah Castillo, Gregorio Magnani, Butt Magazine, Federico Herrero, Terence Koh, i-Cabin, Steven Gontarski, Pixis Fanzine/Princess Julia e Hanah, General Idea e avaf, Basso Magazin, Carl Hopgood, Giles Round, Tim Noble e Sue Webster, Superm, (Brian Kenny e Slava Mogutin), Elkin Calderon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Calvin Holbrook/Hate Magazine, Husam el Odeh, Simon Popper, Fur, Dik Fagazine, Rick Castro/Abravanation, Jean Michel Wicker, Noki, Ellen Cantor,Karl Holmqvist, Julie Verhoeven, Aldo Chaparro, Esther Planas, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Luis Venegas, Twinklife, Rocky Alvarez, Benedetto Chirco, STH Magazine, Elmgreen & Dragset, Francesc Ruiz, Sico Carlier, Stefan Benchoam, Thomas Dozol…
website: http://www.whitecubicle.org/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/White-Cubicle-Toilet-Gallery/119074441495849

Na mesma noite, haverá o lançamento do cartaz "Nova Cartografia Tropical"
NOVA CARTOGRAFIA TROPICAL
Nova Cartografia Tropical é uma primeira aproximação para a construção de uma nova história tropical, e é necessariamente incompleta.
Nova Cartografia Tropical é uma tentativa de criar um campo expandido para manifestações tropicais, que as des-localiza de qualquer geografia ou forma de representação nacional
Nesse sentido, “Ser tropical não é uma questão de localização, mas de atitude”.
A Nova Cartografia Tropical é livremente inspirada pelos (e uma resposta e reação aos) diagramas “Cubism and Abstract Art' (1936), de Alfred Barr e 'How to Look at Modern Art in America' (1946) de Ad Reinhardt.
A NOVA CARTOGRAFIA TROPICAL foi desenvolvida por Pablo León de la Barra como parte do projeto 'O Cartaz Como Espaco Expositivo Expandido' com curadoria de Kiki Mazzucchelli e direção de arte de Mel Duarte.

Wednesday 26 October 2011

CHEVERISMO INTERNACIONAL SUMMIT: 'PRIMER ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL CHEVERISTA' IN MEDELLIN

mattresses arriving to the house where the Cheverismo campsite took place in Medellin


Taller Sitio/Plazarte, house where the Encuentro Cheverista took place, with outside hammock by BIP






Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala- Así que se vaya
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Radamés "Juni" Figueroa, Buró de Intervenciones Públicas (BIP), Byron Mármol, Jessica Kairé, Alberto Rodríguez Collía, Stefan Benchoam.



José Aramburo and Mateo Rivano
Paris-Dakar Road Movie, driving from  Bogota to Medellin






Nuevo La Ene, Buenos Aires- Un Museo Chévere
Gala Berger, Agustín Díez Fischer, Sofía Dourron, Leopoldo Estol, Franco Ferrari, Lala Ladcani + Martín Lowenstein, Adriana Minoliti, Andrés Pereira Paz, Marina Reyes Franco, Felipe Salem, Marcela Sinclair, Nicolás Sarmiento, Santiago Villanueva.






La Loseta, Puerto Rico- Más rápido que la luz
Jesús "Bubu" Negrón, Adriana Lara, Yoel Rodríguez, Radamés "Juni" Figueroa.







Preteen Gallery, Mexico City- Black Hoes Black Holes
Kari Altmann, Ilia Ovechkin, Hanna Terese, Marcel Alcalá, Jeffrey Joyal, Carlos Laszlo, Ben Aqua, Cédric Fargues, Justin Bochek, Abdul Vas, Petra Cortright, Rachel de Joode, Martin Kohout, Parker Ito, Andrew Norman Wilson y Laura Brothers.


Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City- Los intereses materiales de Francia*
Edgardo Aragón, François Bucher, Mario García Torres, Chrsitian Jankowski, Nina Beier y Marie Lund.

Diablo Rosso, Panama- La cena de los idiotas (kit to build an exhibition from the distance)
Brooke Alfaro, Jonathan Harker, Abner Benaim, Fabrizio Arrieta, María Raquel Cochez, Monchi Zafrani y Pilar Moreno.


Proyectos Sauna, Bogota- Ambiente Chévere: ¡Espectacular!
Natalia Sorzano, Santiago Monge and Juan Haag with  Andrea Barragán, Alias Angelita, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Bastardo, Manuel Londoño, Lilith Natasha Border Line, Guillermo Riveros, Pablo Adarme, Catalina Rodríguez, Andrés Felipe Uribe, William Contreras, El Ciudadano Gay, La Corporación El Otro, Amigos en Común, Hernando Muñoz, Corporación Creemos, entre otros amigos.




views of the beautiful patio of the Taller Sitio/Plazarte house, where el Encuentro Cheverista took place


my cheverista team, Stefan and Emiliano





Chevere is Chevere: Lord Byron on top of a Botero sculpture in Medellin's main square

ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL (CHEVERISTA) MEDELLIN 2011
“Es chévere ser grande, pero más grande ser chévere.”
(It's chevere to be grand, but it's more grand to be chevere!"
- Héctor Lavoe

"Cheverismo o Muerte!"
(Cheverismo or Death!)
- Che Guevara

The first Encuentro Internacional (Cheverista) de Medellín 2011 -MDE(CH)11- recently took place as part of the Encuentro Internacional de Medellín -MDE11-. The MDE(CH)11 was held during the first three weeks of October in Medellín (Colombia), and served as a platform for the development of a series of exhibitions, discussions, happenings, banquets, and work meetings between a group of cheverista artists, curators, thinkers, and cultural producers. It took place in Plazarte and was organized by Proyectos Ultravioleta, with the ongoing support of Beatriz López, Pablo León de la Barra and the curatorial committee of MDE11 (Jose Roca, Eva Grinstien, et. al.). The exhibition programme included exhibitions by La Loseta, Preteen Gallery, Nuevo La Ene, Proyectos Monclova, Diablo Rosso, Proyectos Sauna, La Central, Proyectos Ultravioleta, and a two-person show by José Aramburo and Mateo Rivano. 

Cheverismo is an international art movement started by Beatriz Lopez and Pablo Leon de la Barra the last days of 2008, as an attempt to generate a new art movement for the next decade. Cheverismo art is critical, socially and politically engaged, but also full of humour. Cheverismo art is chevere. Cheverismo develops from the American continent, but has no nationality. Cheverismo produces aesthetic manifestations which exist beyond the circuits of galleries, museums, art fairs and biennales, creating new networks for exchanges. Cheverismo Internacional developed after a meeting of some of the participants in Puerto Rico in 2009. Since then a series of exchanges between the participating members, and new incorporated ones has occurred. Cheverismo is financed by the economy of friendship.

The original Cheverismo Manifesto consisted of the following commandments:
1. Cheverismo doesn't belong to anyone, it belongs to all.
2. Cheverismo doesn't need art, art needs Cheverismo.
3. Cheverismo exists beyond the art market, and beyond the circuit of galleries, museums, festivals and art fairs.
4. Not only does Cheverismo allow internal and external contradictions, it celebrates them.
5. Cheverismo has no form and sets out no formulas.
6. Cheverismo proposes a new language and a subsequent new form of action. 
7. Cheverismo is transmited orally and telepathically.
8. Cheverismo never dies… it transforms it self
8. Cheverismo is bipolar 
9. Cheverismo auto curates itself.
10. Cheverismo is for everyone. Cheverismo is only for chevere people!

A new Cheverismo manifesto, from the experience of the Encuentro Cheverista, will come out soon!

What is Chévere?
First we need to discuss the exhaustion of art forms and models. In the last year of its first decade, we will revise the model, the quote, the market. A decade in which the commonplaces of 20th century art were constantly revisited and cited, as if art refused to take over its time and embrace the new millennium.
Nevertheless, some artists took the risk of experimenting in their own stance, and consolidated works from this, our time and beyond. Hence, Cheverismo is a celebration of the works that by their chévere, unprecedented characteristics have marked the beginning of the history of a new art, anticipating, creating new windows, possibilities and fields of action. Cheverismo proposes to eliminate the boundaries of conventions and to point out those manifestations that happen beyond the conventional spatial limits of art, set by the museum, the studio, the gallery, etc. It concentrates on the creation of direct realities that stem from the way we relate to each other, inside or outside of the art world.
Chévere, is a Caribbean word that describes that which is unpretentious and good. It could also allude to a milestone in the Latin American revolutionary imagery: Che Guevara. Thus, Cheverismo gathers that which is chevere and simultaneously political and revolutionary. 
 
For more information, please visit:
http://cheverista.com
http://cheverista.tumblr.com
Participating Artist Spaces, Galleries and Artists at the Encuentro Cheverista:

Nuevo La Ene, Buenos Aires- Un Museo Chévere
Gala Berger, Agustín Díez Fischer, Sofía Dourron, Leopoldo Estol, Franco Ferrari, Lala Ladcani + Martín Lowenstein, Adriana Minoliti, Andrés Pereira Paz, Marina Reyes Franco, Felipe Salem, Marcela Sinclair, Nicolás Sarmiento, Santiago Villanueva.

Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala- Así que se vaya
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Radamés "Juni" Figueroa, Buró de Intervenciones Públicas (BIP), Byron Mármol, Jessica Kairé, Alberto Rodríguez Collía, Stefan Benchoam.

La Loseta, Puerto Rico- Más rápido que la luz
Jesús "Bubu" Negrón, Adriana Lara, Yoel Rodríguez, Radamés "Juni" Figueroa.

Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City- Los intereses materiales de Francia*
Edgardo Aragón, François Bucher, Mario García Torres, Chrsitian Jankowski, Nina Beier y Marie Lund.

Preteen Gallery, Mexico City- Black Hoes Black Holes
Kari Altmann, Ilia Ovechkin, Hanna Terese, Marcel Alcalá, Jeffrey Joyal, Carlos Laszlo, Ben Aqua, Cédric Fargues, Justin Bochek, Abdul Vas, Petra Cortright, Rachel de Joode, Martin Kohout, Parker Ito, Andrew Norman Wilson y Laura Brothers.

Diablo Rosso, Panama- La cena de los idiotas (kit to build an exhibition from the distance)
Brooke Alfaro, Jonathan Harker, Abner Benaim, Fabrizio Arrieta, María Raquel Cochez, Monchi Zafrani y Pilar Moreno.

La Central, Bogota- Imprevisible
Beatriz López y Yoshua Okón

Proyectos Sauna, Bogota- Ambiente Chévere: ¡Espectacular!
Andrea Barragán, Alias Angelita, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Bastardo, Manuel Londoño, Lilith Natasha Border Line, Guillermo Riveros, Pablo Adarme, Catalina Rodríguez, Andrés Felipe Uribe, William Contreras, El Ciudadano Gay, La Corporación El Otro, Amigos en Común, Hernando Muñoz, Corporación Creemos, entre otros amigos.

Photos of the 'Mas Cheverismo' exhibitions and facade of the Cheverista House by Lord Byron Marmol