Editor
Fernando Limberger
Editorial Coordinator
Marisa S. Mello
Graphic Design and Layout
Monique Schenkels
Texts
Guilherme Wisnik, Ricardo José Francischetti Garcia, Marcelo Zocchio
English Translation
John Norman
With essays by Guilherme Wisnik, Ricardo José Francischetti Garcia and Marcelo Zocchio, “Relict” presents texts and images relating to the exhibition of the same name staged by Fernando Limberger between 2020 and 2021 at Casa da Imagem and Beco do Pinto, in São Paulo. In an archeological exercise that provides an encounter between the viewer and “relicts”—the leftover elements that resist environmental change—the artist creates a tension between urban growth and the obliteration of the history of the city, drawing attention to vestiges in the landscape that bear witness to the continued presence of an era that predates the current urban configuration of São Paulo.
Editor
Camila Sposati
Editorial Coordinator
Deborah Moreira / MIRA.etc
Texts
Cristiana Tejo, Kiki Mazzucchelli
Graphic Design and Layout
Studio Kader / Carolina Aboarrage
This publication, containing texts and images, provides an account of the Belojardim Cycle of Art Exhibitions and Artist in Residence Program, which began in 2017 in a municipality located 180 km from Recife. The program’s third guest artist, for the 2019-2021 edition was Camila Sposati (São Paulo, 1972). Curated by Cristiana Tejo and Kiki Mazzucchelli and produced by Automatica, the aim of the program was to develop a long-term proposal for the Agreste region of the Brazilian State of Pernambuco to encourage discussion of the social and cultural significance of the term Northeast and role the cultural legacy of this region can play in today’s world, by way of artist projects specially commissioned for the local context. This edition initially adopted a hybrid format and included a group show of work by Sposati and fourteen other artists: ALL Souza, Angelik, Déborah Monteiro, Elaine Lima, Gledson Lamartine, Heligeison Feitosa, Jacy Lima, Jurandex, Maéve Oliveira, Marilia Azevedo, PRKILLA, Rodrigo Valença, Soraya Feitoza, and Thalyta Monteiro. Based on the Legislative Theater of Augusto Boal (1996), Bodies of Phonosophy aimed to combine the physical body with the social. The project focused on exploring the relation between the artworks created and the subjects/bodies that created them, as a way of investigating their potential as mediators between different types of subjectivity and the world. The works produced for the project were shared with the public in the form of a digital exhibition put together in partnership with the artist Rudá Cabral.
PROJECT TITLE
Arte Bra Collection Platform
PUBLISHERS
Automatica Edições
Luiza Mello
Marisa S. Mello
VOLUMES PUBLISHED SO FAR
Marcos Chaves (2007)
Raul Mourão (2007)
Luiz Zerbini (2010)
Lucia Koch (2010)
Crítica Moacir dos Anjos (2011)
Livia Flores (2013)
Eduardo Frota (2013)
Barrão (2014)
Fernanda Gomes (2014)
Gabriela Machado (2016)
Eleonora Fabião (2021)
Tatiana Altberg (2021)
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC DESIGN | Marcos Chaves and Raul Mourão
Sonia Barreto
Tecnopop
Art Director | Luiz Zerbini
Rara Dias
Art Director | Lucia Koch
Monique Schenkels
Graphic design for later volumes | Updated graphic design
Alexsandro Souza
Dínamo
Copy-Editing
Duda Costa
ARTE BRA is a collection that charts the itineraries of various contemporary artists from Brazil and reflects on the content and meaning of their work. The collection was launched in 2007 and already numbers twelve volumes.
Each book contains a diverse range of dynamically structured and carefully edited images, critical essays, interviews, timelines and references. The texts are written by renowned curators and art critics, including Agnaldo Farias, Glória Ferreira, Felipe Scovino, Galciani Neves, Moacir dos Anjos, Tania Rivera, Paulo Herkenhoff, Paulo Miyada, and others.
The collection is based on comprehensive mapping of the contemporary art currently being produced in Brazil and takes the form of small-format easy-to-read books designed for people working in the arts, students, and the general public. ARTE BRA provides anyone interested in finding out about the artists and their work with an opportunity to reflect on the wealth of contemporary visual art now available. It thereby confirms and consolidates the importance of this sector for the arts in general in Brazil.
2021 saw the launch of a digital platform bringing together all the books and making them available in two different formats: to read online or download free of charge.
PROJECT TITLE
Moinho Fluminense: A Memoir
PRODUCTION
Autonomy Investimentos
PUBLISHER
Automatica Edições
EDITORS
Luiza Mello and Marisa S. Mello | Automatica
Caroline Bertoldi | Autonomy
TEXTS
Augusto Ivan de Freitas Pinheiro
Eliane Canedo
Maria Pace Chiavari
Piedade Grinberg
TRANSLATION
Marília Rebello
With richly illustrated texts by Augusto Ivan de Freitas Pinheiro, Eliane Canedo, Maria Pace and Piedade Grinberg and a photographic essay by Mauricio Hora, Moinho Fluminense – A Memoir first presents the history of the port district and Gamboa from the 16th century to the present day, followed by photographs of the building and its surroundings. The third part of the book presents the stories of people who were there at the beginning and the events that followed when Moinho was still functioning as a mill. The final part of the book outlines the evolution of the building’s architecture over time. This collection of evidence provides ample testimony as to the importance of Moinho Fluminense in the world of business and in the architectural history of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
An online version can be consulted at https://moinho.cargo.site/.
PROJECT TITLE
Art, the city and heritage: future and past in contemporary poetics
EDITOR
Adriana Nakamuta
TEXTS
- Adler Homero de Castro
- Alejandra Saladino, Alicia Castillo Mena and João Carlos Nara Jr.
- Andrea Tourinho and Marly Rodrigues
- Flávia Brito
- Flávio Carsalade
- Helcio Beuclair and Simone Scifoni
- Lia Motta
- Mairton Celestino and Maria Lúcia Sousa
- Mariana Panta
- Mário Pragmácio
- Marize Malta
- Rafael Winter
- Sandra Corrêa
PUBLISHER
Automatica Edições
EDITORIAL PRODUCTION
- Ayla P. Gomes
- Marisa S. Mello
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Renata Palheiros
PREFACE
Fernanda Lopes
VISUAL DESIGN
- Alexsandro Souza | Dínamo
COPY-EDITING
Duda Costa
This book is designed to accompany the catalogue of images from the exhibition of the same name staged at Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro between 25 May and 25 July 2021. This group show of previously unseen work, using various formats, supports and media, made an important contribution to the debate on the role of art in building memory and its relation to the territory of the city, in sensory, material and emotional terms.
More than twenty photographs contained in the special supplement and throughout the book provide a photographic record of the project. The articles, which were the result of interdisciplinary research and reflection, cover a full range of aspects of the cultural and artistic heritage of cities and of the actions, history, disputes and conflicts of which they are composed. This helps us to conceive of the city as a sum of spaces built by way of projects and, also, of the importance of social interaction and survival skills that have generated the collective cultural assets that can be regarded as heritage.
The book invites us to reflect on Brazil’s cities and cultural heritage under the inspiration of an exhibition whose main premise was the fluid nature of the concepts of memory and future in contemporary art. It is from this perspective—of the city as cultural heritage—that the authors invite readers to share their research experiences. The book thus reflects the full complexity of issues relating to cities and heritage in the contemporary world.
Project title
Volume 2
Concept
Raul Mourão
Publishing
Automatica Edições
Editorial coordination
- Luiza Mello
- Marisa S. Mello
Production assistant
Ana Pimenta
Foreword
Fernanda Lopes
Graphic design
- Gustavo Prado
- Jonathan Nunes
- Maria Clara
Chapters’ summaries and copyediting
Audrey Furlaneto
Proofreading
- Duda Costa
- Luiza Mello
Translation for English
- Chris Burden
- John Norman
- Marise Barros
Image processing
Thiago Barros
Final art
Dínamo Design
Transcription of Arto Lindsay’s interview
Pombo
Printing
Ipsis Gráfica e Editora
Volume 2 is the second edition of the artist Raul Mourão’s book-magazine. Organized in chapters that introduce different readings, topics, and writings, the publication sets dialogues with different contemporary art languages from Brazil and international, such as cinema and music.
Adopting the same multifaceted layout as Volume 1, the book brings together sculptures, paintings, drawings, photos, and video frames mixed with critical texts, texts from the artist’s blog (BROG do Raul), and interviews.
Authors and contributors: Fernanda Lopes, Eucanaã Ferraz, Cauê Alves, Luisa Duarte, Isabel Diegues, Vicente de Mello, Felipe Scovino, Daniel Senise, Arto Lindsay, Maria do Carmo Pontes, Guilherme Gutman, Frederico Coelho, Daniel Blaufuks, Marcos Chaves, Lenora de Barros, Daniel Senise, Emmanuel Nassar, Greg Caz, Gustavo Prado, Audrey Furlaneto, Paulo Sergio Duarte and Luiz Camillo Osório.
Mourão plans a sequence for the project with the titles Volume 3, Volume 4, and so on.
Volume 2 is made possible through collective financing and editorial coordination by Automatica Edições.
TITLE OF THE PROJECT
How is a classic of Brazilian literature made? – Analysis of the literary enshrinement of Erico Verissimo, Graciliano Ramos Jorge Amado and Rachel de Queiroz (1930-2012)
AUTOR
Marisa S. Mello
PUBLISHING
- Automatica Edições
- Folio Digital
EDITORIAL PRODUCTION
- Ana Pimenta
- Ayla Gomes
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Alexsandro Souza | Dínamo Design
TEXT REVISION
Duda Costa
PROOFREADING
Folio Digital
PRINTER
Rotaplan Gráfica Editora Ltda.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Felipe Trotta (PPG em Comunicação e Departamento de Estudos Culturais e Mídia/UFF)
João Paulo Macedo e Castro (Departamento de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais/Unirio)
Ladislau Dowbor (Departamento de Pós-Graduação da FEA/PUC-SP)
Leonardo De Marchi (Faculdade de Comunicação Social/UERJ)
Marcel Bursztyn (Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável/UnB)
Micael Herschmann (Escola de Comunicação/UFRJ)
Pablo Alabarces (Falculdad de Ciencias Sociales/ Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Roberto dos Santos Bartholo Junior (COPPE/UFRJ)
This book addresses the historical process of the literary enshrinement of Erico Verissimo, Graciliano Ramos, Jorge Amado and Rachel de Queiroz, based on their positions in the intellectual field, from their training and literary debuts, in the 1930s, through their establishment as professionals, up to the present day, when their books are consolidated classics of Brazilian literature and the Internet has transformed the organization of the publishing industry. The author privileges an analysis of factors of enshrinement specific to the literary field, such as publishers, literary prizes, the Brazilian Academy of Letters, and criticism, among others. She seeks specificity in each career and situation, whilst simultaneously reconstructing the forms of the collective operation of the Brazilian literary movement throughout the twentieth century and during the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Title of the project
Belo Jardim Residence – Carlos Mélo
Curators
Cristiana Tejo e Kiki Mazzucchelli
General Coordinator
Luiza Mello
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Alex Souza | Dínamo Design
PHOTOGRAPHY
Geyson Magno
TEXTS
- Carlos Mélo
- Cristiana Tejo
- Erlene Melo
- Kiki Mazzucchelli
- Marcus de Lontra Costa
- Mariana de Mattos
- Suzy Okamoto
IMAGE MANIPULATION
Dínamo Design
EDITING
Automatica
The publication contains texts and images recording the Cycle of Art Exhibitions and Belojardim Residency program beginning in 2017 in this municipality situated 180 km from Recife. The second guest artist, for the 2018 edition, is Carlos Mélo (Pernambuco, 1969). Curated by Cristiana Tejo and Kiki Mazzucchelli and produced by Automatica, the project in the Agreste region of Pernambuco aims to develop the proposal of encouraging discussion of the present-day sociocultural meaning of the Northeast and the artistic heritage of this region. This is achieved by art projects specially commissioned for the region. During his stay in the city, Carlos Mélo staged an exhibition at SESC Ler Belo Jardim and produced a film entitled Barro Oco about the Barro Branco community and its power of resistance.
TITLE OF THE PROJEC
Bug: narrativas interativas e imersivas
REALIZATION
- Secretaria Municipal de Cultura
- Oi Futuro
- Automatica Edições
ORGANIZATION
- André Paz
- Sandra Gaudenzi
EDITORIAL PRODUCTION
- Marisa S. Mello
PUBLISHING
- Automatica Edições
- Letra e Imagem
EDITORIAL COORDINATION
Mayra Jucá
TEXTS
- André Paz
- Sandra Gaudenzi
- Mayra Jucá
- Kátia Augusta Maciel
- Arnau Gifreu-Castells
- Jéssica Cruz
- Julia Salles
- María Laura Ruggiero
- Fanny Belvisi
- Xavier de la Vega
PICTURES
- Felipe Varanda
- Marco Terranova
- Vanessa Lauria
- IDROPS/IFLAB
- Divulgação BUG404
GRAPHIC DESIGN
- Dínamo Design
- Alex Souza
TEXTS EDITION
Manu Vasconcelos
TRANSLATE
- David Hauss
- Lis Horta Moriconi
- Mariana Gago
- Carola Mittrany
PROOFREADING
- Rosana Lobo
- Amanda Coimbra McCaskey
PRINTING
Ipsis
The book Bug: narrativas interativas e imersivas (Bug: Interactive and Immersive Narratives) is a production of Bug404 laboratory in partnership with Automatica Edições and coediting by Letra Imagem, with the support of the Municipal Office of Culture and Oi Futuro.
Organized by André Paz (UNIRIO/PPGMC (UFRJ)) and Sandra Gaudenzi (University of Westminster), it is the first Brazilian book in bilingual form that offers a presentation of a panoramic view of the field, encompassing the international and national scenarios of interactive and immersive narratives. It puts researchers, producers and artists in dialog through texts and interviews that discuss productions in web documentary formats, interactive documentaries, 360 videos, virtual reality, augmented reality, transmedia and sound maps.
The publication is one of the products of Mostra Bug, staged at the Oi Futuro Cultural Center between August and September 2018, with curatorship by André Paz, Julia Salles and Arnau Gifreu-Castells, and production by Automatica. Chapter 4 includes a catalog of the works that comprised the exhibition.
Title of the project
Belo Jardim Residence – Marcelo Silveira
CURATORS
Cristiana Tejo e Kiki Mazzucchelli
GENERAL COORDINATOR
Luiza Mello
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Priscila Gonzaga
PHOTOGRAPHY
Bernardo Teshima
CONTENT
Cristina Huggins
GUESTS
Catarina Duncan, Cláudio Assis, Fabiana Moraes, Gabriel Mascaro, Jailton Moreira, Michael Asbury e Moacir dos Anjos
PROJECT AND PRODUCTION
Automatica
The publication provides a record of the Cycle of Belo Jaradim Residency Exhibitions, a program that began in 2017 in the municipality situated 180 km from Recife. The first guest artist is Marcelo Silveira (Pernambuco, 1962). Curated by Cristiana Tejo and Kiki Mazzucchelli and produced by Automatica, the project in the Agreste region of Pernambuco aims to develop the proposal of encouraging discussion of the present-day sociocultural meaning of the Northeast and the artistic heritage of this region. During his stay in the city, Silveira presented eight artworks in different formats at different locations in the city of Belo Jardim and transformed the old Mariola sweet factory into a studio. There, he organized weekly lunchtime meetings with residents of the region, based on the idea that art work, poetry and reflection can stimulate conversation. “Lunch is an occasion when good conversation arises and that is why we proposed to bring people together around it. The focus is not on the food It is an accessory in the process”, the artist explains. The Belo Jardim studio was open to all those interested in establishing dialogue.
Marcelo Silveira’s sensitive view of the city aimed to find beauty and art in places and practices that may normally go unnoticed.
TITLE OF THE PROJECT
Fabio Morais
COMPILATION
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
EDITORIAL PRODUCTION
Luiza Mello
Marisa S. de Mello
Ana Pimenta
Publishing
Automatica Edições
EDITORIAL COORDINATION
Galeria Vermelho
SPONSORSHIP
Coleção Moraes-Barbosa
Luciana e Antonio Wever
TEXTS
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
ENGLISH VERSION
John Norman
PROOFREADING
Duda Costa
Regina Stocklen
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Celso Longo
Luisa Prat [assistente]
GRAPHIC PRODUCTION
Aline Valli
IMAGE PROCESSING
Carlos Mesquita
PHOTOGRAPHY
Edouard Fraipont
Paula Alzugaray
Rafael Cañas
Rafael Jacinto
Raphael Vilar
PRINTING
Geográfica
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The book, Fabio Morais, produced by Automatica Edições, is dedicated to investigating the work of this São Paulo artist over the last ten years, which includes installations and sculptures, as well as numerous publications and artist’s books. Morais investigates, in his process, relationships and cross-contaminations between literature and the visual arts. Taking as its starting point the particularity of his practice of using books as objects and the literary universe in a broader sense, the publication sought, in its conception, to be as far removed as possible from a conventional artist’s book. The proposal here is the systematization and dissemination of the work of an original artist in the Brazilian contemporary scene who, despite having produced various books, did not possess any objective record (or “catalogue”, to use the conventional term in the artistic sphere) of his work.