Exactly 100 years later, the modernism of Anita Malfatti , Di Cavalcanti and Victor Brecheret continues to inspire new artistic creations and transform experiences already so intrinsic to our daily lives.
Cell phone use, for example, is one of them. Taking pictures with devices that have nearly infinite memories is seen by many as a decadence of the art of photography. However, easy access to cell phones allows various contents to be made in a more democratic and inclusive way.
With that in mind, the 9th edition of the Mobile Photo Festival brings the theme “Breaking barriers – Modernism today” . There are several categories that awarded the winners: “Digital Art”, “Landscape”, “Documental” and the “Video” category, vertically, one of the most popular of this edition, whose registration was made through the application TikTok . The works of the winning artists will be exhibited at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS), in São Paulo
For the founder and organizer of the event, the photographer and cultural producer, Ricardo Rojas, it is necessary to do what the modernist movement has already done, to rethink art.
“We thought of proposing a central theme that would make the participants inspired, more than in the modernist method or technique, but in the modernist thought, to dare to think differently, to break formal and traditional aesthetic standards”, he says. “And the ‘Essay’ category is the category that will tell us, through visual narratives captured with smartphones, how these artists see, feel or think about Modernism today”.
This edition of the Festival also features an exclusive art, “FUSION”, by Swiss artist Kilian A.Merz, which is unprecedented in Brazil. It is a combination of 3 dimensions: reality, virtual world and sound fragments, providing a multisensory experience through digital art. “FUSION” will be available for purchase on NFT shortly after the exhibition ends.
The Mobile Photo Festival 2022 exhibition started this Tuesday (14) and runs until June 26, at MIS, an institution of the Secretary of Culture and Creative Economy of the Government of the State of São Paulo.
Source: CNN Brasil
