Afro-Brazilian art is focusing on the exhibition Afro-Brazilian, tribute to two Valentins and an Emanoel on display in Rio de Janeiro, from this Friday (11). The new show at Espaço FGV Arte, on Botafogo Beach, was conceived as a symbolic fabric that expands and intertwines, capable of connecting different territories and temporalities.
The exhibition runs a path ranging from the coast cloth, an element present in the rituals of African life, even in historical sculptures, which dialogue with Afro-Brazilian ancestry and cultural resistance .
The public can check out the oldest manuscript of a black writer in Brazil, as well as other paintings, screens and so-called 19th-century Creole-Bahia jewels, and a balangandãs .
The curator Paulo Herkenhoff explains that it cared for the complexity of Afro-Brazilian history, with an approach that does not hide the slave period in the cultural formation of the country.
“The exhibition deals with works with history, as a way of indicating that there is Afro-Brazilian history. The next step was to seek unique issues of this art with history,” he details.
Brazil’s literature also features FGV Arte’s exhibition. A pair of works dedicated to Machado de Assis, made up of a portrait and a manuscript can also be found on the show. Already the sculptures were thought according to the geographical differences of Brazil.
“We have young Bahian artists such as David Sol, Emanoel Saravá, Leticia France, Guilherme Almeida, Shai Andrade and Karamujinho. The latter even presents his work for the first time in Rio de Janeiro. João Victor Guimarães .
In addition to territorial plurality, the show is careful to rescue forgotten artists, historically marginalized in the traditional art circuit, which includes unpublished canvases, never before displayed to the public.
“Afro-Brazilian is a tribute to the artists who built, within the limits and proposals and techniques of Western art, thoughts and manifestations beyond the West,” concluded Guimarães.
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