In the month that marks the centenary celebrations of the 1922 Modern Art Week, the CNN Brazil presents the podcast Week of 22 – Much more than the modern. Reporter and presenter Paula Martini leads a journey through time and a reflection on the legacy of the movement one hundred years later.
In five episodes, the podcast revisits the past and questions its impact on the present and future of culture in the country. The title of the series, which includes a verse from a samba by Aldir Blanc, Moacyr Luz and Luiz Carlos da Vila, is an invitation to think about tradition and modernity, in addition to the simplistic disputes reproduced over the last few years.
Below is a summary of each episode of the podcast:
The first episode presents a contextualization of Brazilian culture in the midst of the social and political transformations of the 20th century. Brazilian culture was heavily influenced by what was produced in Europe – as was life in cities, in a frank process of urbanization. The celebrations for the Centenary of the Independence of Brazil encouraged a group of artists from São Paulo to think about a movement organized for the development of a freer and more independent art.
“The week that didn’t end” actually lasted just three days. The second episode takes the listener to revisit the 100 works exhibited in the lobby of Theatro Municipal de São Paulo and the conferences presented on stage and on the stairs, recalling the impressions of critics and the press at the time.
The Brazilian artistic avant-garde had an unprecedented participation of women. Tarsila do Amaral and Anita Malfatti remain eternalized in the predominantly male portrait of the modernist movement. But not even the leading role in the visual arts freed the painters from stereotypes about the role of women in society.
What is modern? What is art? What is Brazilian? In the first phase of modernism, the discussions were carried out by white people, heirs of the coffee barons. Brazil in the 1920s was still a rural, mestizo country that had abolished slavery less than 40 years ago. Through today’s lenses, the search for the “Brazilian soul” raised by artists who had little contact with the peripheral population can be interpreted, according to researchers, as folkloric and even as a cultural appropriation.
The final episode tells that the disagreements about the directions of Brazilian aesthetics caused a series of ruptures after the Semana de 22. The disagreement in the intellectual field spilled over into the personal relationship and even determined the political destiny of the first modernists. The lights went out in the midst of a global crisis and the end of the First Republic in Brazil. But the legacy remains. Whether you love it or hate it, this is yet another Modern Art Week anniversary that doesn’t go unnoticed.
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