PROJECT TITLE

Restraint – Art practices with new media from Brazil and Peru

ARTISTS

  • Amilcar Packer (Chile)
  • Lucas Bombozzi (Brazil)
  • Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (Peru)
  • Nicole Frenchy (Peru)
  • Leandro Lima e Gisela Motta (Brazil)
  • João Carlos Martinat (Peru)
  • Rodrigo Matheus (Peru)
  • Rolando Sanchez (Peru)

WHERE

SESC Pinheiros

ADDRESS

Rua Paes Leme, 195, São Paulo, SP

VISITATION

  • 18/11/2010 – 16/01/2011
  • Free Admission

CURATORS

  • Julie Bélisle (Canadá)
  • Kiki Mazzucchelli (Brasil)
  • Miguel Zegarra (Peru)

PRODUCTION

Groupe Molior

CO-PRODUCTION

Automatica

The project Restraint was co-produced by Automatica and a Canadian company called Le Molior Group. The objective of this collective was to investigate what the Brazilian and Peruvian artistic contexts have in common. As well as analyze the contemporary art production through its cultural, social and political conjuncture.
The focus of the exhibition was the virtuality and the use of new multimedia technologies applied to artistic experiments and performance practices. For this reason, a new generation of artists, which have incorporated these new devices and are directly involved in this new dynamic of making art, marked by globalization disorder and political engagement, were gathered. In this sense, the choice for new medias would be a form of resistance and self-assertion for these artists, fighting against stereotypes and the fact that a large part of their work remains inaccessible, but inserted in a rapidly growing cultural scenario.

PROJECT TITLE

O Sonho de Darcy (Darcy’s Dream)

ARTIST

Jum Nakao

WHERE

MAM – RJ

ADDRESS

Av. Infante Dom Henrique, 85 Parque do Flamengo

VISITATION

11/18/2010 – 12/2/2010

PRODUCTION

Automatica

GENERAL COORDINATOR

Luiza Mello

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Ana Hupe

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

  • Caroline Valansi
  • Luisa Hardman

ASSEMBLY

  • Trampolim
  • Daniel Toledo
  • Débora Mazloum
  • Maíra das Neves

CRITICAL ESSAY

Roberto Corrêa dos Santos

ENGLISH VERSION

Paul Webb

GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECT

Cecilia Lucchesi

PRESS CONSULTANTS

CW&A

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

Anna Penteado

SOUND DESIGN

Paulo Beto

AUDIO EQUIPMENT

  • Felipe Messina
  • Julio Lobato

LIGHTING

Tomas Ribas

LIGHTING ASSISTANT

PC

Set up at the pillars of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ) during the first week of December 2010, the installation O Sonho de Darcy (Darcy’s Dream) is the artist Jum Nakao’s tribute to the anthropologist, thinker and professor Darcy Ribeiro. The work was part of the series of events Brasilidade (Brasility), sponsored by the Ministry of Culture (MinC)

Hanging from the ceiling until nearly touching the ground, a fishing net containing nine thousand transparent inflatables at different heights, constituted the work. Each inflatable carried one word of the essay O Povo Brasileiro (The Brazilian People), by Darcy Ribeiro. The public could simultaneously hear fragments of Darcy’s statement in many voices representative of the plurality of the Brazilian people through speakers which were spread around the hall.

PROJECT TITLE

Geral Archive – 4th edition

WHERE

Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica

ADDRESS

Rua Luís de Camões, 68 – Centro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ

VISITATION

  • 09/26/2010 – 10/17/2010
  • Free Admission

CURATORS

  • Beatriz Lemos
  • Marisa Flórido

GENERAL COORDINATION

Luiza Mello

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Amália Giacomini

PRODUCTION

  • Camila Goulart
  • Mariana Schincariol de Mello

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS

  • Esther Martins
  • Francisco Bressy Junior

SETUP COORDINATOR

  • Amália Giacomini
  • Eduardo Coimbra
  • Rodrigo Fortes

SETUP

Trampolim

PROJECT MANAGER

Marisa S. Mello

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Tecnopop

LIGHTING DESIGN

Samuel Betts

PRESS RELATIONS

Raquel Silva

PROOFREADING

Duda Costa

TRANSLATION

Renato Rezende

GENERAL ARCHIVE is an initiative from many art galleries in Rio de Janeiro. It is a collective exhibition held every two years during the São Paulo Art Biennial. The large national and international public that attends this event and the proximity between Rio and São Paulo as well as the fact that many great Brazilian artists live in the city, are a great incentive for the exhibition.

In its 4th edition, GENERAL ARCHIVE fortifies itself in the national and international scene, as more than an exhibition, it’s a strategic action that aims to restore and reinforce Rio de Janeiro’s vocation as an important producer and disseminator of culture. The project intends to consolidate the reinvigoration (in progress over the last decade) of the market and institutions related to the arts in the city as well as reflect about the influence of the visual arts in the revitalization of urban spaces of the city, the economy, as well its importance in the social relations and a common dimension of existence.

Project Title

Qualia

Artist

Simone Michelin

Place

Oi Futuro

Address

Dois de dezembro, 63, Flamengo – RJ

Visiting Information

14/09/2010 – 17/10/2010

Curator, Essay and Editorial Coordination

Paulo Herkenhoff

Critical Essay

Arlindo Ribeiro Machado Neto e Glória Ferreira

Production

Automatica

General Coordinator

Simone Michelin

Production Coordinator

Luiza Mello

Production

Mariana Schincariol de Mello

Graphic Desgin

48 Creative : Coral Michelin

Architecture

Bernard Heimburger

Music

Aquiles Pantaleão

3D Modeling

Jean-Marc Billard

Kinetic Structure

PRV Tech

Press Consultants

CW&A

Proofreading

Maria Helena Torres

Translation

Renato Rezende

Management of the Project

Marisa S. Mello

Artist’s Assistant

Camilla Dias

Multimedia

Belight

Scene Sets

Camuflagem

Acknowledgments

Aquiles Pantaleão

Atelier na Gloria

Curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro hosted the exhibition Qualia, by Simone Michelin, between September and October 2010. The result of an intricate plot between technological devices and information coming from sócio-economical backgrounds, the exhibition presented an original way of thinking about everyday problems such as urban violence and drug use.

This innovative work was divided in two spaces, both introducing new technogical resources, such as laser printing on a latex surface, showing sequences developed from data on the number of casualties occurring in confrontations with the police in Rio de Janeiro, and 3D projection in mirrowed rooms, enlarging images of narcotic molecules (such as THC), which were viewed through special glasses offered to the public.

Project title

Revídeo – Lenora de Barros

Place

Centro Cultural Oi Futuro

Address

Rua Dois de Dezembro, 63. Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro

Visiting information

09/14/2010 – 10/17/2010

Free admission

Curator

Alberto Saraiva

General coordinator

Luiza Mello

Production

Mariana Schincariol de Mello

Graphic Design Project

João Doria

Proofreading

Duda Costa

English Version

Renato Rezende

Multimedia

Belight

Scene Sets

Camuflagem

Press consultants

CW&A

Project Manager

Marisa S. Mello

Acknowledgments

  1. André Millan
  2. Cid Campos
  3. Luciano Mariussi
  4. Marcos Ribeiro
  5. Hilton Raw
  6. Paloma Bosquê
  7. Marcos Augusto Gonçalves
  8. Ruy Teixeira
  9. Raimo Benedetti
  10. Walter Silveira

Revideo, held in the Oi Futuro branch of Rio de Janeiro between September and October 1020, was a unique opportunity for the public of Rio to watch a survey of the work as a vídeoperformer of the artist Lenora de Barros.

Curated by Alberto Saraiva, the exhibition showed all the vídeos made by the artist over 25 years. The videoperformances are representative not only of Lenora’s career as a pioneer of the genre, but also of Brazilian Art and its dialogue with other languages.

Project Title

Museu É o Mundo

Where

Paço Imperial

Casa França-Brasil

Address

Praça Quinze de Novembro, 48 – Centro, Rio de Janeiro

Visc. de Itaboraí, 78 – Centro, Rio de Janeiro

Visiting Information

09/11/2010 – 11/21/2010

Parceria Estratégica

Ministério da Cultura

Sponsor by

Petrobras

Lei Estadual de Incentivo à Cultura do Rio de Janeiro

Secretaria de Estado de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro

Project

Itaú Cultural

Projeto HO

Curator

Cesar Oiticica Filho

Fernando Cocchiarale

Expographic Project

César Oiticica

Production

Automatica

General Coordinator

Luiza Mello

Marisa Mello

Production Coordinator

Débora Monnerat

Consultant for the curators

Cecília Ribeiro

Curatorial Assistant

Anita Goes

Production

Bruno Monnerat

Camila Goulart

Education program

Luiz Guilherme Vergara

Visual Design

Sônia Barreto

Press Consultants

CW&A Comunicação

Legal Counsel

Álvaro Piquet Pessoa

Production Assistant

Esther Martins

Project Manager

Marisa Mello

Administrative Assistant

Carolina Lima

Assembly Staff

Trampolim

Insurace

Allianz

Proofreading

Duda Costa

English version

Renato Rezende

Graphic monitoring

Sidnei Balbino

Lighting

Belight

Scene sets

HO Produções e Eventos

Artwork transportation

Millenium Transportes e Logística

Press relations

Felipe Maciel [Factual]

Artwork transportation

Bruno Prada

Scene sets

Camuflagem

Equipments

On Projeções

Opening in São Paulo and travelling to other áreas of the country, Automática produced the installation of the retrospective of Hélio Oiticica’s work in Rio de Janeiro. Between October and December 2010, the work of one of the most important Brazilian artists was shown simultaneously in Casa França-Brasil, Paço Imperial and a number of public places of the city.

Titled Museu é o Mundo (Museum is the World), the curatorial work of César Oiticica Filho and Fernando Cocchiarale brought together a series of works in order to expose his trajectory from the metaesquemas of the 50s until his last penetráveis (penetrables) and pieces done at the end of his life, still in 1980. The exhibition also included a seminar curated by Felipe Scovino, which reunited some specialists on the work of Oiticica.

Project Title

A Soma dos dias

Where

Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo

Address

Praça da Luz, 2

São Paulo

Visiting information

07/31/2010 – 11/07/2010

Artist

Carlito Carvalhosa

Music

Philip Glass

Production

Automatica

Production Coordinator

Luiza Mello

Production

Bruno Monnerat

Expographic Project

Carolina Veiga

3D Model

Daniel Wagner

Production of the artwork

Carolina Lyra

Carolina Hermeto

Assembly of the prototype

Galpão Aplauso Rio de Janeiro

Clayton Peçanha Teixeira

Daniel da Silva Paulino

Pedro Henrique dos Anjos Frazão

Assembly support

André Aguillar

Ivan Peter

Sound

Fusion Áudio

Audio Consulting

João Milet Meirlles

Legal Counsel

Álvaro Piquet Pessoa

Electricity and lighting

Isaías Rufino de Souza

Musicians

Santa Marcelina Organização Social de Cultura

Tom Jobim EMESP

Coordinator

Sergio Kafejian

Solo Violin

Mizael José da Silva Junior

Professor

Gustavo Barbosa Lima

Flute duo

Henrique Augusto Amado

Julia Donley

Professor

Gustavo Barbosa Lima

String quartet

William Wanderlan Rebouças Guimarães

Joede Rodrigue dos Santos

Wellington Rebouças Guimarãoes

Ana Carolina Rebouças Guimarães

Professor

Henrique Muller

Piano

Grasiela Prado

Professor

Milton Vito

Saxophone

Luciano Froes

Professor

Milton Vito

Acknowledgments

Alessandra Marder

Cecilia Carvalhosa

Lorenzo Mammi

Mari Stockler

Maria Carvalhosa

Mirna Aragão

Paulo Vivacqua

Paulo Zuben

Rebecca Litman

Rita Wainer

Stokes Howell

Terâ Queiroz

Between July and November 2010, the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo presented the installation A soma dos dias (The Sum of the Days), by Carlito Carvalhosa. The title refers to the daily sounds recorded and reproduced by speakers in the space. The work was specially developed for the third edition of the Projeto Octono Arte Contemporânea (Octagon Contemporary Art Project), developed by the institution and curated by Ivo Mesquita.

Carlito’s work, composed of aluminum strips that hold large pieces of fabric wrapping the entire central space of the museum, combines the beauty of the installation with the physical presence of the music of the North American musician and composer Philip Glass. The acclaimed musician, was also present and gave two piano concerts in the institution.

PROJECT TITLE

A Dimensão Gráfica (The Graphic Dimension)

ARTIST

Carlos Vergara

WHERE

MAM RJ

ADDRESS

Av. Infante Dom Henrique, 85 Parque do Flamengo

VISITATION

11/12/2009 a 03/14/2010

CONCEPTION

George Kornis and Carlos Vergara

CURATOR

George Kornis

CRITICAL ESSAY

Gloria Ferreira

PRODUCTION

Automatica

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Luiza Mello

PRODUCTION

Mariana Schincariol de Mello

DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH

Monica Kornis

IMAGE RESEARCH

  • George Kornis
  • Maria Paula Cruvinel

MUSEOLOGICAL RESEARCH COORDINATOR

Maria Paula Cruvinel

MUSEOLOGICAL RESEARCH

  • Ludmila Costa
  • Camila Cardoso
  • Cintia Figueiredo
  • Fabiana Motta
  • Glauce Ferreira
  • Mariana Estelita
  • Kalindi Devi

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Irene Peixoto and Gabriela Horta | Nucleo I

PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD AND IMAGE TREATMENT

Eduardo Masini

LIGHTING

Tomas Ribas

MANAGEMENT

Marisa S. Mello

PRESS CONSULTANTS

CW&A Comunicação

LEGAL COUNSEL

Álvaro Piquet Pessoa

SETUP

  • Marcelo Camargo
  • Ana Macedo
  • Thomaz Velho
  • Valter Lano

LIGHTING SETUP

  • PCSandro Lima
  • Carlos Firmino

PROOFREADING

Duda Costa

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Renato Rezende

LOGISTIC

AL Consultancy

CARLOS VERGARA’S STUDIO
COORDINATOR

João Vergara

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Maria Paula Cruvinel

ARTISTAS ASSISTANT

Ana Macedo

MUSEOLOGY ASSISTANT

Ludmila Costa

GENERAL SERVICES ASSISTANT

Alex André Souza

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  • Álvaro Piquet
  • Ana Luiza Varella
  • Carlos Pini
  • Evangelina Seiler
  • Gilberto Chateaubriand
  • Marcos Flaksman

DEDICADED TO ROGER AND LUCILA WRIGHT AND REYNALDO ROELS JR.

A Dimensão GRÁFICA – Carlos Vergara (The Graphic Dimension – Carlos Vergara) consisted of one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of the graphic production of this artist from the south of Brazil. Monotype prints, photographs, etchings, silk-screen prints, book and record covers as well as 3D images offered the public a unique oppprtunity to experience 50 years of the work of one of the most important Brazilian artists of the twentieth century.

The exhibition took place at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, between November 2009 and March 2010 and was curated by the art collector George Kornis. Automatica helped the artist set up a kind of studio inside MAM-RJ, for the installation of his exhibition in the museum, in constant dialogue with its architecture.

PROJECT TITLE

Parece Verdade (Seems True)

ARTIST

Caio Reisewitz

VISITATION

  • January 12 a March 7, 2010
  • Free admission

WHERE

  • CCBB RJ
  • Rua Primeiro de Março, 66 l Centro

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil

Curator

Fernando Cocchiarale

EXPOGRAPHIC PROJECT

Gerardo Vilaseca

CONCEPTION

Rejane Cintão

GENERAL COORDINATOR

Luiza Mello

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

Débora Monnerat

PRODUCTION

  • Bruno Monnerat
  • Mariana Schincariol Mello

GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECT

Carla Zocchio

PHOTO

Paulo Jabur

PRESS CONSULTANTS

CW&A Comunicação

LEGAL COUNSEL

Álvaro Piquet Pessoa

PROJECT MANAGER

Marisa Mello

LIGHTING

Belight

SCENE SETS

Camuflagem

ARTWORK TRANSPORTATION

A Alternativa

LOGISTICS COORDINATION

AL Consultancy

INSURANCE

Allianz

PROOFREADING

Duda Costa

ENGLISH VERSION

Stephen Berg

GRAPHIC MONITORING

Elaine Beluco

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Luciana Brito Galeria

From January to March of 2010, CCBB Rio de Janeiro held the exhibition Parece Verdade (Seems True), bringing to the public of Rio de Janeiro some recent works of the photographer Caio Reisewitz, from São Paulo. The exhibition consisted of photographs from the artist’s collection as well as works never shown before, taken from private collections.

Curated by Fernando Cocchiarale, 27 images in large format, plus 15 images in smaller format were displayed in groups: landscapes of different places, interior scenes of public buildings from different periods, and some images of faces and register of the human presence.

PROJECT TITLE

Iole de Freitas

WHERE

Casa França-Brasil

ADDRESS

Visconde de Itaboraí, 78, Centro – RJ

VISITATION

10/24/2010 a 02/28/2010

DIRECTOR

Evangelina Seiler

GENERAL COORDINATOR

Luiza Mello

PRODUCTION

  • Arthur Moura
  • Débora Monnerat
  • Mariana Schincariol de Mello

MANAGER

Marisa S. Mello

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Rara Dias | Zot Design

PRESS CONSULTANTS

  • Ana Ligia Petrone | Meio imagem
  • Waleska Lima | Meio e Imagem

PHOTO

Sergio Araújo

Legal Counsel

Álvaro Piquet Pessoa

CONSULTING FOR STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS

Geraldo Filisola (Technical Director) | Cerne Engenharia e Projetos Ltda.

ARTISTAS ASSISTANT

Anisvaldo Florindo Rodrigues

WORK SETUP

  • Emilson Gomes da Silva | Keep Marine
  • Felipe Medeiros da Silva
  • João Francisco dos Santos

SETUP ASSISTANTS

  • Marco Aurélio Abreu da Silva
  • Anderson Antunes de Abreu
  • Douglas dos Santos Costa

LIGHTING

Samuel Betts | Belight

GRAPHIC PRODUCTION

Sidnei Balbino

PAINTING

Fernando Caetano

SCAFFOLDS INSTALLATION

Macanotubo Estruturas Industriais Ltda.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
SUPERINTENDENTE REGIONAL DO IPHAN

Carlos Fernando Sousa Leão de Andréde

ARQUITETO SUPERINTENDENTE DO IPHAN

Luis Augusto Pinho

STATE GOVERNMENT OF RIO DE JANEIRO
GOVERNOR

Sérgio Cabral Filho

VICE GOVERNOR

Luiz Fernando de Souza Pezão

STATE SECRETARY OF CULTURE

Adriana Scorzelli Rattes

SUB-STATE SECRETARY OF CULTURE

Olga Campista

SUPERINTENDENT OF ARTS

Eva Doris Rosenthal

The exhibition, which has the name of the artist, Iole de Freitas inaugurated in October 2009 (and continued showing until February 2010). During a new phase in Casa França-Brasil, after a long period of renovation which finished in April of that same year. Located in downtown Rio, the exhibition of Iole offered an innovative intervention in the classic ambience of the building and its majestic space.

The work consisted of an installation a a system of lines made of steel tubing that supported twisted sheets of transparent polycarbonate which lead the public to experience a new relation with the space. Overlapping lines and planes, the work of the artist and the architecture merged in a common movement, reflected by nuances of light and tension.

Project Title

A imagem do Brasil no tempo da Segunda Guerra (The image of Brazil during the Second World War)

Project Development

Centro Cultural da Justiça Eleitoral

General Coordinator

Fundação  Padre Anchieta

Place

Centro Cultural da Justiça Eleitoral

Address

  • Rua Primeiro de Março, 42 – Centro
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Visiting information
  • 1/12/2009 – 31/01/2010
  • Free admission

Curator

  • Jair de Souza
  • Mauricio Lissovsky

Expographic Project

Jair de Souza

Graphic Design and Visual Ambience

  • Jair de Souza Design
  • Jair de Souza
  • Rita Sepulveda
  • Ana Carolina Montenegro
  • Dan Fervin
  • Guilherme Portela

Production Coordinator

  • Automatica
  • Débora Monnerat

Production

  • Jair de Souza Design
  • Camila Gooulart
  • Automatica
  • Bruno Monnerat
  • Executive Project of Architecture
  • Nathália Mussi

Videos Edition

Célia Freitas

Research

  • Elizabeth Passi de Moraes
  • Leila Melo

Sound

Alexandre Pereira

Texts

  • Maurício Lissovsky
  • Jair de Souza

Proofreading

Duda Costa

Press Consultants

Belém Com

Multimedia

Belight

Scene Sets

H.O Silva Produções e Eventos

Management

  • Jair de Souza Design
  • Consuelo Ribeiro
  • João Barboza

Curated by Jair de Souza and Maurício Lissovsky, the exhibition A imagem do Brasil no tempo da Segunda Guerra (The Image of Brazil During The Second World War) took place at Centro Cultural da Justiça Eleitoral, Rio de Janeiro, from December, 2009 to January 2010. The objective was to present a multimedia panorama of Brazil’s participation in the greatest world conflict of the twentieth century.

The installation revolved around the contrast between three graphic registers of the period: the official photographs taken by The Estado Novo (New State), under the leadership of Getulio Vargas, the informal photos made by Life Magazine, in accordance with the North American perspective of integrating Brazil into the block of allies and finally, the popular point of view presented by the caricatures of Nassara and J. Carlos.