BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING
IPCNY
March/May - NY
Lambe-Lambe (Lick-Lick)
Maura de Andrade
Yili Rojas
Paulo Camillo Penna
Duo Verry Well (Elaine Arruda & Veronique Isabelle)
Cleiri Cardoso
berlinxsaopauloxoaxacaxcariri (group)
Francisco Maringelli
Maria Regina Pereira
Maurício Parra
Works
Alberto Martins
Alexandre Sequeira
Augusto Sampaio
Claudio Mubarac
Elisa Bracher
Ernesto Bonato
Fabrício Lopez
Francisco Almeida
Kika Levy
Laerte Ramos
Marco Buti
Mônica Barki
Nara Amélia
Nina Kreis
Sheila Goloborotko
Books | Albums
Cleiri Cardoso
Helena Freddi
Ulysses Boscolo
BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING
IPCNY, New York, March/May 2014
Curators:
Amy Sandback
Eduardo Besen
Priscila Sacchettin
Rodrigo Naves
The exhibition Brazilian Contemporary Printmaking offers a graphical
overview gathering artists from all over the country. Works on different
techniques and media (paper, metal, or the city walls, in the case of licklicks) bring to the North-American public the diverse graphic production of
our country. In Brazil, prints as an artistic expression exist since one hundred
years only. This recent tradition allows a certain lack of commitment to the
rules and fosters technical experimentations.
The press, printing and image recording were prohibited in Brazil colony
until the arrival of Dom João VI and the royal family in Rio de Janeiro in
1808 and the founding of the Royal Press. The few attempts made were
severely punished. Therefore there isn’t a significant printmaking in Brazil
until the early twentieth century. The artistic engraving conceptualized as
independent work emerges around 1913 with the activities of BrazilianItalian Carlos Oswald, but will only take hold around the 30s. Interestingly,
as the artists Claudio Mubarac and Evandro Carlos Jardim write in the
exhibition catalog Brazilian Contemporary Printmakers, this development
takes place as a post-photographic phenomenon and after all the founders
modernisms of that century have already been poured and inoculated
in the general history art (referring to Europe and its avant-garde). The
emptiness we have inherited from the lack of iconographic tradition and
the inexistence of printing practices for three centuries could also be seen
as the driving force of a vision with a high inquiring content, even if it is
naïve and deeply intuitive. Brazilian print art is two hundred years old, if
we consider the graphic genre as a whole, and less than one hundred years
if we are interested in the experimental activity of artists in printing.
Lambe-Lambe (Lick-Lick)
Works
Alberto Martins
untitled (Harbour Series), 1990
Woodcut
no edition, only artist proofs
Available through:
33 x 47 cm (image); 39 x 53 cm (paper)
Printed and published by the artist
untitled (Boxes Series), 2006
Woodcut
no edition, only artist proofs
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28 x 36 cm (image); 36 x 54 (paper)
Printed and published by the artist
untitled, 2002
Woodcut
No edition, only artist proofs
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25 x 34,5 cm (image); 41 x 47,5 cm (paper)
Printed and published by the artist
Alexandre Sequeira
Adriane (“Nazaré do Moncajuba”) series, 2005
Screenprint on sheets and table cloth.
4/5
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265 x 185 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Augusto Sampaio
Prováveis/Problabes, 2004
Woodcut
Edition of 2 (red and black); 3 (red)
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200 x 80 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Claudio Mubarac
Untitled, no date
etching on hand-made Nepal paper
UP
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29 x 29 cm (image); 50x37cm (paper)
Printed and published by the artist
Elisa Bracher
Untitled, 2012
etching
UP
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200x100cm
Printed and published by the artist
Ernesto Bonato
Léo, 2009
Woodcut
UP
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50 x 40 cm (image); 60 x 50 cm (paper)
Printed and published by the artist
Deambulatório 01, 2006
Woodcut
Edition of 10
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60 x 60cm (image); 64 x 64 cm (paper)
Printed and published by the artist
Mário, 2009
Woodcut
UP
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50 x 40 cm (image); 60 x 50 cm (paper)
Printed and published by the artist
Fabricio Lopez
Untitled,
Colour woodcut on Kozo paper,
167 x 187 cm (paper)
160 x 180 cm (image)
U.P.Edition 200 x 80 cm
Printed by the artist
Francisco Almeida
Procissao da Luz (Light Parade),
woodcut
118x91cm, 2009
Printed by the artist
Kika Levy
untitled, 2012
Etching, drypoint, aquatint on wood.
Edition of 4
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30 x 30 x 08 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Laerte Ramos
Temporada de Caça, 2011
Screenprint on wood, screenprint on cloth
Edition of 10
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45 x 15 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Untitled, 2007
Screenprint on wood
Edition of 10
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6x6x6cm
Printed and published by the artist
Marco Buti
untitled, 2001
Etching on iron table
Edition:
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60 x 60cm
Printed and published by the artist
Mônica Barki
Coco Bobo, 2002
Flexography
1/1
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280 x 25 x 20 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Nara Amélia
A natureza como ambiente da clausura” da
série “Sonhos são como bolhas de sabão”
2012
Etching, dry point, pencil, watercolour and
gold leaf
35 x 30 cm
Printed and published by the artist
A noite salva” da série “Sonhos são como
bolhas de sabão”
2012
Etching, pencil, watercolour and gold leaf
35 x 30 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Portador de Marcas, ” da série “Sonhos são
como bolhas de sabão”
2012
Etching, pencil, watercolour and gold leaf
35 x 30 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Nina Kreis
untitled (das tartarugas), 2011
Engraving on cloth
UP
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25 x 30 cm
Printed and published by the artist
untitled (lego-casas), 2011
Engraving on cloth
UP
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25 x 30 cm
Printed and published by the artist
untitled (dos deuses), 2011
Engraving on cloth
UP
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25 x 30 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Sheila Goloborotko
“1001 dreams”
1001 dreams is an ongoing interactive public installation
where pedestrians in several cities around the globe will come
across a printed pillowcase depicting a text and scene of a
dream.
Printed pillowcase, 2012
20x30”
Printed by the artist
Books | Albums
Cleiri Cardoso
Construções, 2010
Woodcut
Edition of 10
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30 x 33 cm
Printed and published by the artist
Helena Freddi
Sobreimpressos-Memória, 2006
Etching, aquatint, gum-print
Edition:
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22 x 25 cm
Printed and by the artist
Published by HF Atelier de Gravura
Ulysses Bôscolo
Untitled,
Woodcut, wood, string, nails
UP, 2013
Printed and published by the artist
Curators
Eduardo Besen
Eduardo Besen(São Paulo, Brazil,1962) has a bachelor degree in Architecture
at University of São Paulo (USP).
Eduardo Besen founded Gravura Brasileira gallery in 1998 in São Paulo,
Brazil to showcase and publish Modern and Contemporary Brazilian prints.
Gravura Brasileira is the only gallery dedicated solely to display and promote
printmaking in Brazil. For the past 12 years Gravura Brasileira has become a
major printmaking center organizing national and international exhibitions for
both emergent and renowned artists. Since its inception the gallery continues
to publish artist books and printmaking portfolios, as well as present lectures
in schools, museums, and art organizations nationally and abroad.
Priscila Sacchettin
Priscila Sacchettin has a bachelor degree in Philosophy at University of
São Paulo (USP). As an undergraduate, she developed a research on the
series Los Caprichos by Francisco de Goya. At the same university, she has
a Masters entitled Impressionism in black and white, drawing and engraving
in Felix Bracquemond. As a member of the Young Critics Group of Centro
Universitário Maria Antonia (USP), she has been writing about several
contemporary artists. Currently she is a researcher for the Itaú Cultural
Institute Brazilian Art Encyclopedia, an internet database used by both
students and specialized researchers. She is also curatorship assistant at
Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS).
Rodrigo Naves
Rodrigo Naves is an art critic, art historian and professor with a PhD in
aesthetics at the Philosophy Department of University of São Paulo. He
published essays and articles in various magazines and newspapers in Brazil,
analyzing works of modern and contemporary artists. He was editor of the
culture supplement Folhetim (Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper), of the Novos
Estudos Journal (Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento - Cebrap),
director of the collection Espaços da Arte Brasileira (Cosac & Naify publishing
house) and took part in the publications “A parte do fogo” and “Beijo”. For
over 20 years he has been teaching a free course of art history. He has
published the following books: El Greco – um mundo turvo [El Greco - a Dim
World] (Brasiliense, 1985), Amilcar de Castro (Tangente, 1991), A Forma
Difícil — Ensaios sobre Arte Brasileira [The Difficult Form - Essays on Brazilian
Art] (Ática, 1996, Companhia das Letras, 2011), Nelson Felix (Cosac & Naify,
1998), Goeldi (Cosac & Naify, 1999), Cassio Michalany (Cosac & Naify, 2001)
and O Vento e o Moinho — ensaios sobre arte moderna e contemporânea [The
Wind and the Mill - essays on modern and contemporary art] (Companhia
das Letras, 2007). He also prefaced the Brazilian editions of Modern Art,
by Giulio Carlo Argan (Companhia das Letras, 1992) and Art and Culture,
by Clement Greenberg (Ática, 1996). In 1998 he published the fiction O
Filantropo [The Philanthropist] (Companhia das Letras, 1998), translated in
2009 in Argentina.
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