Carne Misteriosa

 I saw this marvelous exposition in Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro where i am living now for an Exchange in Unirio.

Carne Misteriosa

 

Iron becomes delicate and airy and subjective words turn into concrete truths at the able hands of Portuguese sculptor Rui Chafes in his show at the Museu de Arte Moderna. Widely considered one of the country's most talented sculptors, his dark creations in black iron and steel are permeated with an unexpected, ethereal softness, full of organic curves and tender messages. Inspired by the writings of novelist Beckett and philosopher Nietzsche, Chafes' work often embodies the themes the writers famously explored in years past: loneliness, theft, abandonment and destruction.
In Carne Misteriosa, carioca art connoisseurs will get a chance to see 87 of the Chafes' masterpieces set across seven rooms. Comprised of sculptures both monumental and small, as well as a video of the artist at work, the collection offers audiences a thorough introduction into the murky world of a truly talented sculptor.

Words by Maria Lopez Conde

 

 

Marcia X

http://www.marciax.art.br/

 Márcia X was a Brazilian artist 1959 - 2005, who started to have success in the early 1980s, toys, erotic and religious objects to express the relationship between childhood and eroticism.

Einstein on the Beach

http://pomegranatearts.com/project-einstein/

Bob Wilson and Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs

There's a revival on tour!

Methamorphosis

Phillip Glass through Kafka's book.

In ‘Methamorphosis’ the combination of individual pieces is more complex than the individual work. The repetition in each serial is used to create a very complex structure. When the receptor learn to identify these repetitions (even if it’s unconscious), he learns a new perspective that focuses on the combinatory possibilities hidden in the melody; this isn’t, for sure, minimal. Minimal is the aesthetic.  

“In a similar fashion, ‘II’ begins where ‘I’ departed, though there is something quite beautiful and heavy about this movement that makes it outweigh its predecessor in terms of grandeur. Serenity is a word that purely describes what may be perceived while watching a seed germinate into a sprout, and this feeling, riddles the second movement’s sound. Don’t be fooled by the beginning measures of ‘III’ though, despite the fact it sound like a return toward to previous passage, it quickly runs into a syncopated rhythmical quality, which is rather different from that of the previous themes expressed. ‘IV’ is no exception towards this phenomenon. While the arppegiated chords are particularly entertaining, they don’t rescue the movement’s melodic tension. However, the tension is released as it departs, and makes its way into the wonderful fifth passage. ‘V’ appears to be a celebration of the collection as a whole, revisiting everything that has been expressed so far in a sort of medley, making it the best movement to depict what Metamorphosis.”

Perreault Christ!

Man Ray

Here we go again: repetition of repetition
These are minimal composings!

What good are the arts?

"People in the West have been saying extravagant thing about the arts (...) The arts, its is claimed, are 'sacred', they 'unite us with the supreme Being', theu are 'the visible appearance of God's Kingdom on earth, they 'breathe spiritual dispositions' into us, they 'inspire love in the highestpart of the soul' they have a 'higher reality and more veritable existence' that ordinary life, they express the 'eternal' and 'infinitive' and they 'reveal the innermost nature of the world.' (...)
John Carey