Day 6 - Carlos Vegara Studio/Exhibit & Luiz Camillo Osorio at Paco Imperial

Day 6 Sat. May 31

8:45 am Group convenes in hostel lobby

9:00 am Group leaves for city central on public transportation to estacao do bonde to take tram across Arcos de Lapa to Santa Teresa, Rua Teotonio Regadas, to take tram Paula Matos line

10:00 am Meet Idalina Silva, Educational Assistant and Chief of Foreign Rsident Program at Carlos Vergara´s studio, Rua Progresso, 70 Santa Teresa

12:00 pm Meet Luiz Camillo Osorio, Art Critic / Curator see major exhibition of Carols Vergara, at Paco Imperial, Praca XV de Novembro, 48 Centro, Rio de Janeiro

Bus ride to Pavihao de Sao Cristovad - spectacular nordistno market



Brazillian History

Carlos Vergara Art Studio with Ed Assistant Idalima Silvia and Chief of Foreign Res Programs

We walked and took the Bus to Carlos Vergara's studio and talked to the Ed Assistant/Cheif of Foreign Res Programs Idalima Silvia. We didn't meet Carlos Vergara because he was away on a project in Turkey. The studio was a very modernized house that has been turned into a work studio and gallery space exhibition. Idalima gave us a tour. She struggled a bit with her English and at times Jose had to translate. But the actual art work was beautiful. He had paintings and sculpture work with different pigments, waxes, holographs, and collage sketches. His body of work was so extensive. The holograms were made of sketches by taking photographs and cutting them out to make 3 dimensional relief compositions.

That can be an idea for an art project.

We left there to go to the Museum Paco Imperial Praca. This is where Carlos Vergara's work was being displayed. Luiz Camillio Ososrio gave us a detailed historical contextualization of the origins of content of the work which has a lot of historical and cultural reference to Brazil's history of early settlement of the Portuguese the indigenous indians, the slaves and how these cultures intertwined.

I felt like the lecture was less about the Art and more about the history of Brazil. Which was necessary for us to understand the significance of the work. Luiz did go into the Artist movements of Brazil including the Neo concrete era and this is when Brazil really began to submerse itself as an identity in the post modern and contemporary world.





Notes from lecture
Cordonu Masacure
Late 19th Century

Book: Sertoes
Author Euclides Dacunlia

The Mountain was called Favela
They constructed everything because it was near where they work.

School of Samba - for carnival
Nov- Feb
This was in the favela

The way the community came together to build carnival
Mixture the concrete primary colors
with costume vocabulary of colors

The rationale of the concrete movement
in the revolution in the 1960s

Neo concrete was in response to the need to have more spontenaity to the modernism of 60s.
Max Burle out of the modern artists was the Brazilian artist responded the most to.
From there they looked to the favelas for inspiration because of its natural spontenaity of using what they can dwhich were mountains.

Gilberte Freyre

Senzala - Slavery

Canados 19th Century Masacre and the creation of the name of the favela
Book: Sertoes
Author: Euclides Daculia


Brazilian Art History

The European Baroche mixed with the Brazilian Artists called new baroque period. Brazilians don't have a strong pre-colonial herritage. Central America and Northern America
Testimonial period and always looking to the testimony of the past.

Chille, panama etc.
Transpositional period
Brazilians don't have a present
Cuba, Brazil etc. New Synchronic period
Since the beginning: Brazillians don’t have an origin but have a future.

We are premodern and we are late modern.

The 1920s modernist movement in Brazil.

The eat the other and transform it.
The Indian proverb

They ate the enemy if they were brave so they can get it.
In the 1950s the new concrete.
Save intellectual background of the minimalist. The post minimalist the Americans were doing in the 1960s

Brazilian word/ concept
Cre-laision

Mixes leasure
Mixes faith
Mixes creativity

Jauque Raancreie – teaching of what you don’t know

Pedagogy
Book: The Ignorant Master
Book: The Aesthetic of the Ginga
By Berinstein
She is in Bahia (But its not in English)


Brazilian Phrases


Onji e ou banjo? = Where is the bathroom?
(onjee ay oo banyo) por favor? please?