The Brazilian culture, diversified and uncompromised, transits across multiple references, infiltrated by several cultural systems. The complexity of materials, supports and narratives that configure what is art in Brazil reveal the contrasts and distances existing between several speeches of art in contemporaneity. Brazilian artists are characterized frequently through an exotic and folkloric eye, which emerges from a difficulty to see the inexistence of a cultural unity.
The absence of a systematic professional training made biennials and international exhibitions important places to share beliefs and aesthetical values, expanding artistic frontiers. In face of academicism and provincialism latent, the importance of updating artistic intelligence has always been a major concern for artists. The European and American avant-garde movements and intervened in a decisive way in the renewal of Brazilian art’s visual language, drawing attention to what existed of authentic and primitive in the local reality.
The absence of a systematic professional training made biennials and international exhibitions important places to share beliefs and aesthetical values, expanding artistic frontiers. In face of academicism and provincialism latent, the importance of updating artistic intelligence has always been a major concern for artists. The European and American avant-garde movements and intervened in a decisive way in the renewal of Brazilian art’s visual language, drawing attention to what existed of authentic and primitive in the local reality.
Brazilian Art in the Contemporaneity
In an embracing identity game, the different cultural realities that here live are the matrix which absorb and taste our flavors and knowledges, where, the presupposed, we are all the same, is central when we talk about art, revealing crossroads and affiliations. To mixing up is what is being a Brazilian, is being contaminated by different experiences and references. It is an absence of character? Our historic frontiers are marked by crossing as a cultural exchange, that selected, modified and recombines traditional ethnicities and predatory acculturation, imitation and innovation, local and peripheral contexts, digital and global in its artistic productions.
Today, the greatest challenge is not just tolerance, but acceptation, sharing and familiarity, a diversity’s poetic and not a differences’ policy. The native malice seeks to experiment other solutions as a world vision, putting in a crisis the idea of roots, traditions and authenticity; even the concept of nation is put aside on the designations of art. The comprehension of crossings and simultaneity, of combination games and syncretism, contaminates the linear writings of disorder art and deviations in its meanings. The idea of this compilation of works is to promote interaction and the understanding of the eclectic, without stumble in criteria or aesthetic judgments.
Today, the greatest challenge is not just tolerance, but acceptation, sharing and familiarity, a diversity’s poetic and not a differences’ policy. The native malice seeks to experiment other solutions as a world vision, putting in a crisis the idea of roots, traditions and authenticity; even the concept of nation is put aside on the designations of art. The comprehension of crossings and simultaneity, of combination games and syncretism, contaminates the linear writings of disorder art and deviations in its meanings. The idea of this compilation of works is to promote interaction and the understanding of the eclectic, without stumble in criteria or aesthetic judgments.