Masp will have three new exhibitions as part of the year dedicated to indigenous stories

Dedicating the year to Indigenous Stories, the Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) will have three new exhibitions involving the theme starting next Friday (30).

The first of these is that of Free Masp Landmann: Pre-Columbian Ceramics and Metals, which will be on display until September 3rd. Curated by Marcia Arcuri and assisted by Leandro Muniz, the exhibition features 721 pre-Columbian artifacts produced by Amerindian peoples between the 2nd and 16th centuries.

They are objects attributed to 35 archaeological cultures of the American continent from countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Brazil, in addition to the Caribbean. They mirror the diverse repertoire of ideas, gestures, techniques and practices materialized in ceramics, metal, wood, stone and bone, with compositions that integrate feathers, fibers, vegetable or mineral pigments.

This is the second exhibition dedicated to the lending of Edith and Oscar Landmann’s pre-Columbian art collection, loaned in 2016 to remain for a period of ten years at the museum. It will be located on the 2nd basement of the museum.

The second of them is that of the Venezuelan Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe. Carrying the subtitle “All of This Is Us” the exhibition brings together 109 drawings, monotypes and paintings that rescue ancestral traditions, the oral memory and the cosmological knowledge of his community, located in the municipality of Alto Orinoco, in the Venezuelan Amazon.

He uses vegetable inks manufactured by hand and extracted from leaves, fruits, animals and wood.

Along with Mexican artist Laura Anderson, Hakihiiwe developed a technique for producing paper with native vegetable fibers, and uses handcrafted inks extracted from leaves, fruits, animals and wood in his drawings.

Tiny and delicate, they are colorful and textured symbols of the vast and intense relationship their community has with the landscape. His work seeks to be a contemporary revision of the Yanomami imaginary. The show is curated by André Mesquita with the assistance of David Ribeiro and will be on until September 24th in the 1st basement (museum gallery).

Masp’s Video Room will be dedicated to the North American indigenous artist Sky Hopinka until August 13th. Through videos, photos and texts, he seeks to express his opinion about the landscape and indigenous land, using personal, documentary and non-fictional means of communication.

In his productions, the filmmaker tells stories that refer to his identity and indigenous ways of life, delving into questions of his origin through autobiographical narratives that communicate directly with the native audience, without the obligation to explain the meaning to non-native spectators. natives.

The show, curated by María Inés Rodriguez, will show the videos Kicking the Clouds and Mnemonics of Shape and Reason (both from 2021). While the first reflects on his descendants and ancestors, guided by an audio recording from 50 years ago of his grandmother learning the Pechanga language with his mother, the second travels through the memory of a place visited by the artist.

He overlays and reassembles rocky desert landscapes with a soundtrack composed of texts and music, creating a rhythmic account of the spiritual implications of colonization.

Tickets for Masp can be purchased and booked on the website and cost from R$ 30 (half price) to R$ 60 (full price). On Tuesdays, admission is free, as well as on the first Thursday of the month.

Masp – Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Avenida Paulista, 1578 – Bela Vista/Phone: (11) 3149-5959/Opening hours: Tuesday, from 10 am to 8 pm (entrance until 7 pm); Wednesday to Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm (admission until 5 pm); closed on mondays.