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 Available through: 28 x 36 cm (image); 36 x 54 (paper) Printed and published by the artist untitled, 2002 Woodcut No edition, only artist proofs Available through: 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 Available through: 265 x 185 cm Printed and published by the artist Augusto Sampaio Prováveis/Problabes, 2004 Woodcut Edition of 2 (red and black); 3 (red) Available through: 200 x 80 cm Printed and published by the artist Claudio Mubarac Untitled, no date etching on hand-made Nepal paper UP Available through: 29 x 29 cm (image); 50x37cm (paper) Printed and published by the artist Elisa Bracher Untitled, 2012 etching UP Available through: 200x100cm Printed and published by the artist Ernesto Bonato Léo, 2009 Woodcut UP Available through: 50 x 40 cm (image); 60 x 50 cm (paper) Printed and published by the artist Deambulatório 01, 2006 Woodcut Edition of 10 Available through: 60 x 60cm (image); 64 x 64 cm (paper) Printed and published by the artist Mário, 2009 Woodcut UP Available through: 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 Available through: 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 Available through: 45 x 15 cm Printed and published by the artist Untitled, 2007 Screenprint on wood Edition of 10 Available through: 6x6x6cm Printed and published by the artist Marco Buti untitled, 2001 Etching on iron table Edition: Available through: 60 x 60cm Printed and published by the artist Mônica Barki Coco Bobo, 2002 Flexography 1/1 Available through: 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 Available through: 25 x 30 cm Printed and published by the artist untitled (lego-casas), 2011 Engraving on cloth UP Available through: 25 x 30 cm Printed and published by the artist untitled (dos deuses), 2011 Engraving on cloth UP Available through: 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 Available through: 30 x 33 cm Printed and published by the artist Helena Freddi Sobreimpressos-Memória, 2006 Etching, aquatint, gum-print Edition: Available through: 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. www.gravurabrasileira.com w w w. i p c n y. o r g