2015
 
Exposição coletiva Imagine Brazil em Montreal (Canadá)
DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art

“We all have our own idea of Brazil. It is a country that is close to us and yet at the same time distant, mysterious and uncanny. In a certain way, Brazil is an imaginary country. It is a country of spectacular nature and magic, of ethnic and social diversity. In fact, it is not one country but multiple, variable, rich and overwhelming lands. There is thus no one way to sum up the nation or the country, and the same goes for its art scene.

This is why we have called our exhibition IMAGINE BRAZIL. What you will see is a constellation of works by young artists, our view on emerging Brazilian contemporary art. We also present two further exhibitions within the exhibition: a selection of more established artists who have been invited into the show by the younger ones whom we have chosen, providing a story of recent art in Brazil, and an exhibition of artists’ books by emerging practitioners, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti and Ana Luiza Fonseca. There is no attempt to tell a single truth through these selections, only to make hypotheses and propositions based on our knowledge, sensibility and experience, the personal choices of the young Brazilian artists and the expertise of the Brazilian curators.”
– Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Thierry Raspail

Curators:
Gunnar B. Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo);
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery (London);
Thierry Raspail, Musée d’art contemporain (Lyon),
together with Cheryl Sim, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art (Montreal).

Participating Artists:
Deyson Gilbert, Montez Magno, Rodrigo Matheus, Fernanda Gomes, Adriano Costa, Tunga, Mayana Redin, Milton Machado, Jonathas de Andrade, Caetano Veloso Rodrigo Cass, Rivane Neuesnschwander, Paulo Nazareth, JBorges, Sofia Borges, Maria Martins, Cinthia Marcelle, Pedro Moraleida, Sara Ramo, Cildo Meireles, Marcellvs L, Arrigo Barnabé, Gustavo Speridião, Carlos Zílio, Paulo Nimer Pjota, Adriana Varejão and Thiago Martins de Melo.

Artists’ books | exhibition within the exhibition
Gustavo Speridião, Marlon de Azambuja, Chiara Banfi, Artur Barrio, Debora Bolsoni, Waltercio Caldas, Felipe Cohen, Marilá Dardot, Detanico Lain, Ana Luiza Dias Batista, Marcius Galan, João Loureiro, Milton Marques, Lúcia Mindlin, Leya Mira Brander, Fabio Morais, Carlos Nunes, Nicolás Robbio, and Lucas Simões.
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