Paulo Venancio Filho presents Time and Place

Paulo Venancio Filho presents Hélio Oiticica’s Time and Place

//Adam Art Gallery Public Programme March – May 2011

LECTURE
Paulo Venancio Filho
Professor of Art History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hélio Oiticica’s Time and Place
Adam Art Gallery
Thursday 19 May 2011, 5.30pm

Brazilian art historian, curator and writer will present his research on the artist Hélio Oiticica, whose work is currently on show at the Adam Art Gallery in the exhibition Points of Contact: Jim Allen, Len Lye and Hélio Oiticica (organised and toured by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery). His lecture will summarise Oiticica’s role in the Brazilian artistic context of the late 1950s and 1960s, which saw him synthesising the legacy of modernism with pioneering avant-garde experiment, which he expanded in his brief stay in London that led to the breakthrough exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1969 and the late projects and experiments made in his 1970-1978 period in New York.

Paulo Venancio Filho is an art critic, curator and full professor of art history at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of essays published in the following catalogues: Tunga/Cildo Meireles, Kanaal Art Foundation, Belgium; Transcontinental: Nine Latin American Artists, New York and London; Inside the Invisible, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Experiment/Experiência - Art in Brazil 1958-2000, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Oiticica in London, Tate Modern, London. He curated Rio de Janeiro 1950-1964 for Century City, Tate Modern, London 2001 and Soto: The Construction of Immateriality, Centro Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro 2005.

//Also in conjunction with Paulo Venancio Filho’s visit
2011 Workshop in Art History and Visual Culture
Presented by the Art History Programme, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, and the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington.

WORKSHOP
Paulo Venancio Filho
Professor of Art History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
New Time, New Temporality: Contemporary Art in Brazil
Room 319, Old Kirk Building, Gate 3, Kelburn Parade, Victoria University of Wellington
Friday 20 May 2011, 3-5pm

Brazilian contemporary art is receiving greater attention than ever on the international stage. Are the creative endeavours coming out of Brazil hitting a chord with contemporary issues? Or is it that Brazil is a new terrain to be claimed? What is Brazilian art’s position in mapping out contemporary art of the early 21st century? How are younger artists working in Brazil engaging with global processes of the art circuit yet also acknowledging that their work is shaped by local conditions and histories? Join Brazilian art historian, curator and writer Paulo Venancio Filho in a two hour workshop on the current art scene in Brazil and its propositions for international discourse on contemporary art.

Paulo Venancio Filho’s visit to New Zealand is supported by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington; the National Institute of Arts and Industry, University of Auckland, and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth.

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