Bienal in the City [Bienal na Cidade]
from September 7 to December 9, 2012 www.30bienal.org.br In addition to the main exhibition at the Bienal Pavilion in Parque Ibirapuera, the 30th Bienal de São Paulo -­‐ The Imminence of Poetics will also be present at three branches of the City Museum (Casa Modernista, Casa do Bandeirante and Capela do Morumbi), the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), the Museu de Arte Brasileira da FAAP (MAB-­‐FAAP) and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, in interventions at various points throughout the city, such as the Luz train station, on Avenida Paulista, and the streets of São Paulo. Avenida Paulista Alexandre Navarro Moreira September 4 to December 9 An intervention by Brazilian artist Alexandre Navarro Moreira in display cases placed at newspaper stands occupies the region of São Paulo’s best-­‐known thoroughfare. The works on display consists of posters from his Apócrifo (Apocryphal) series, a project developed by the artist on the streets since 2001, featuring portraits that exhibit human faces blended with the noise of the city. All along the avenue (Avenida Paulista), in newspaper stand displays. Estação da Luz [Luz train station] (central overhead walkway) Charlotte Posenenske September 4 to December 9 Estação da Luz, São Paulo’s most frequented train station, hosts a minimal sculpture from Charlotte Posenenske’s series D Square Tubes, 1967. As a representative of concrete-­‐minimal art Charlotte Posenenske was among Germany's leading artists in the 1960s. Posenenske aspired to a clear, hard realism of form, production, distribution and reception. Using industrially produced material and assembling the elements into different forms, the artist attempted to move away from elitist institutions but into the realm of the everyday and was passionate about installing her sculptures at transport hubs such as traffic islands, train stations or airports. Luz train station Closed between midnight and 5:00 am Subway: Lines 1, 3, 4, 7, near the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Bus: 2523-­‐10, 7458-­‐10 A journey through São Paulo Leandro Tartaglia September 4 to December 9 In his work developed for the 30th Bienal, the Argentinian artist Leandro Tartaglia has developed a moving theatre piece in two acts that will start from the Bienal Pavillion. Each stage of the journey will last around 20 minutes and will be accompanied by audio. In the middle of the journey the participant will visit the Capela do Morumbi (Morumbi Chapel) a space which houses a sound installation by artist Maryanne Amacher, also a participating artist in the 30th Bienal de São Paulo. Total duration of journey: 1 hour. Departures: Tuesday-­‐Friday 1pm and 2.30pm / Saturday and Sunday: 3pm and 4.30pm from the main entrance of the Bienal Pavilion in Parque Ibirapuera MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Benet Rossell Jutta Koether September 4 to December 9 At MASP, two artists intervene in the exhibition Deuses e Madonnas. With a focus on Nicolas Poussin’s painting Hymenaios Disguised as a Woman During an Offering to Priapus (1634-­‐1638), Jutta Koether presents three new paintings, Embrace/ Étreinte/ Umarmung, Abraco I-­‐III (2012) that revisit the different stages of the recently concluded restoration process of the work. Poussin’s painting depicts the Greek god of marriage ceremonies, dressed as a woman and dancing with Priapus, the rustic and fertility god. Koether’s remake of Poussin’s masterpiece is presented in parallel to Ceremonials (1974), a film produced by Benet Rossell in collaboration with Joan Rabascall, Antoni Miralda, Jaume Xifra and Dorothee Selz. Ceremonials documents processions, parties and other rituals celebrated at events the artists had organized in Paris during the early 1970’s – a psychedelic counterpart to the Greek mythology rendered in Poussin’s painting. 1578 Avenida Paulista, Bela Vista, São Paulo Tel. +55 11 3251 5644 http://masp.art.br Tues-­‐Sun, 11 am – 6 pm (tickets sold until 5.30 pm); Thur 11 am – 8 pm (tickets sold until 7.30 pm) Subway: Trianon-­‐Masp (line 2) Bus: 175P-­‐10, 478P-­‐10, 478P-­‐31, 508L-­‐10, 577T-­‐10, 669A-­‐10, 669A-­‐41, 714C-­‐10, 715M-­‐10, 775P-­‐10, 857P-­‐10, 857R-­‐10, 874C-­‐10, 874T-­‐10, 875A-­‐ 10, 875H-­‐10, 875M-­‐10, 875P-­‐10, 877T-­‐10, 917H-­‐10, 917M-­‐10, 975A-­‐10 Capela do Morumbi Maryanne Amacher September 4 to December 9 Opening: September 5 at 10am At Capela do Morumbi, a chapel from 1825 and now a contemporary art exhibition space, recordings and visual materials by the late composer and pioneering sound artist Maryanne Amacher (1938 – 2009) have been installed. Educated in music, Amacher was known for her original thought and dramatic architectural staging of music and sound since the 1960s. Her experimental sound installations and multimedia works often required full buildings and radicalized ways of hearing as the center of her practice. In the context of her work, the Morumbi chapel poses a unique acoustical challenge. The space has been constructed using the taipa de pilao technique (typical for São Paulo architecture from the 16th and early 19th century) that employed wooden planks to raise the walls of damp earth with perforated walls remaining until today. Supreme Connections: Capela do Morumbi is part of an ongoing process to uncover a model for the realization of Amacher’s site-­‐adaptive work after her death. Micah Silver and Robert The, a composer and a visual artist and co-­‐founders of the Maryanne Amacher Archive (Kingston, NY) have used a selection of recordings and visual materials to address the site as Amacher might have done. The project is not a work by Amacher, but an important early attempt to share the experiences she constructed during her career. 5387 Avenida Morumbi, Morumbi, São Paulo Tel. +55 11 3772 4301 www.museudacidade.sp.gov.br/capeladomorumbi.php Tues-­‐Sun, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Subway: Butantã (line 4), CPTM Station Morumbi (line 9) Bus: 756A-­‐10, 756A-­‐21, 807J-­‐10, 6291-­‐10, 7040-­‐10, 7040-­‐21, 8020-­‐10 Casa do Bandeirante Hugo Canoilas September 5 to December 9 Opening: September 5 at 3pm Casa do Bandeirante, an example of colonial architecture and the Museu do Bandeirante [museum of Bandeirantes], the Portuguese explorers, is a location for a project by Hugo Canoilas. The artist presents his research into the traces of Bandeirantes explorations that took place between the 16th and 18th century. Canoilas went on three trips into the interior of São Paulo state and visited several communities along Tietê river (Santana do Parnaiba, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, Itu, Salto and Tietê). The display conceived by the artist is divided by the room structure of the Casa do Bandeirante and departs from objects of the Museu da Cidade collection, which are integrated in a display of new paintings and several short films. The paintings include a work inspired by a study from Henrique Bernardelli, Último momento de um Bandeirante (1932) on view at the Museu do Ipiranga as well as photographic transfers of species of local flora based on paintings and lithographs produced by the French painter Jean Baptiste Debret during the 18th century including his Provincia de Sao Paulo (1827) Praça Monteiro Lobato, s/n (no number), Butantã, São Paulo Tel. + 55 11 3031 0920 www.museudacidade.sp.gov.br/casadobandeirante.php Tues-­‐Sun, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Subway: Butantã (line 4), CPTM Station Cidade Universitária (line 9) Bus: 809L-­‐10, 7702-­‐10, 7725-­‐10 Museu de Arte Brasileira da FAAP José Arnaud Bello Robert Smithson Xu Bing September 6 to November 4 Opening: September 5 from 4pm to 6pm FAAP features installations, photographs and other works by José Arnaud Bello, an array of films by land artist Robert Smithson including Spiral Jetty, Monolake and Swamp. Chinese artist Xu Bing is exhibiting two of his key projects: The Forest Project, that connects art and education to raise funds destined to the planting of trees in endangered areas, and Book From the Ground, a romance written entirely in Universal Iconic language. 903 Rua Alagoas, Higienópolis, São Paulo Tel 11 3662 7198 www.faap.br/museu Tues-­‐Fri, 10 am – 8 pm (entrance until 7 pm); Sat, Sun, holidays, 1 pm – 6 pm (entrance until 5pm); closed Mondays, including on holidays. Subway: Santa Cecília (line 3) or Paulista (line 4) Bus: 408A-­‐10 Casa Modernista Sergei Tcherepnin with Ei Arakawa September 5 to December 9 Opening: September 5 at 6pm In the intimate setting of Casa Modernista, built in 1928 and considered the first modernist building in Brazil, Sergei Tcherepnin and Ei Arakawa present two different series of sound sculptures investigating tonal perception. On the ground floor the artists have installed works from the series Looking at Listening, 2012. The images printed on different kinds of resonating metals were acquired from the New York Public Library, where the artists found files under the title "Listen" or other categories that could be considered visual variations on the theme: “Conversation,” “Investigation,” “Town Meetings,” “Audience 1960s– 70s.” Visitors are encouraged to operate the works with the assistance of a musician for a few hours each day and explore listening as kinetic process. A new series of sound sculptures, ARCHICACTUS (outgrow/autogrow), 2012 has been installed by Tcherepnin and Arakawa in the former kitchen and upstairs, complemented by a performance on the afternoon of October 20. 325 Rua Santa Cruz, Vila Mariana, São Paulo Tel. +55 11 5083 3232 www.museudacidade.sp.gov.br/casamodernista.php Tues-­‐Sun, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Subway: Santa Cruz (line 1) Bus: 375V-­‐10, 476A-­‐10, 4714-­‐10, 5103-­‐10, 5103-­‐21 Instituto Tomie Ohtake Bruno Munari October 3 to November 18 This exhibition of Bruno Munari allows a complete immersion into the creative strength of a pivotal Italian artist and pedagogue from the 20th century. Dozens of art works, books and design objects conceived by Munari between the 1920s and 1990s are on display between October 3 and November 18. 201 Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, entrance on Rua Coropés, Pinheiros, São Paulo Tel 11 2245 1900 www.institutotomieohtake.org.br Tues-­‐Sun, 11:00 am – 8:00 pm Subway: Faria Lima (line 4) Bus: 117Y-­‐10, 477A-­‐10, 802C-­‐10, 875C-­‐10, 875C-­‐22, 957T-­‐10, 958P-­‐10, 5100-­‐10, 6262-­‐10, 6262-­‐21, 8171-­‐10, 9050-­‐10, 9051-­‐10 Information for the press A4 Comunicação | Tel +55 11 3897 4122 [email protected] Images for dissemination: ftp://mail.a4com.com.br Login: Bienal | Password: please request to [email protected] Mai Carvalho -­‐ [email protected] Neila Carvalho -­‐ [email protected] Alexandre Michelacci -­‐ [email protected]