2011 October Year 1 Issue 3
BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
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Coordination: Jonathas Mello Editor: Luisa Frey Production: Mariana Bittencourt Vitor Vieira de Oliveira Cover illustration: Lambuja
“This country will only be great when every Brazilian feels responsible and influent by the strength of his thoughts for the creation of a nacional whole.” Teotônio Vilela (1917 - 1983) - Brazilian politician Borders are tricky elements. They limit spaces and create identities at the same time. They also instigate the reconstruction of such identities by asking questions constantly. From spacial limitations, discussions about language, cultural and thinking limitations emerge. Frequently, this questions are asked by art, which turns daily subjects into alternatives of change and development. The present issue of Sabiá Magazine presents, once more, artists from inside Brazilian borders - and from outside as well -, who bring along theirs influences and references. Since the magazine was launched, we have been questioning the idea of “Brazil, samba, sweat and carnival” and we keep questioning it by the works featured in this issue. We struggle against stereotypes and stand for the exact opposite of it: the broadening and gathering of different worlds, that together create a “national whole” – complex and rich as the Brazilian culture is.
THREE ANNA ANJOS CRISTINA CENCIARELLI EDUARDO FONSECA IRENA FREITAS 04 08 14 20
ISE ARAÚJO LEANDRO NEVES LUIZ PEGORARO PEDRO FERREIRA LAMBUJA 24 29 35 41
CRIS/TRAK AMORIM VITI GROSMAN ZÉ OTÁVIO 46 51 55
© The works featured in this issue are copyrighted by the authors and its publication was authorized only to Sabiá Magazine. It is forbidden to use these images for other purposes. If you are interested in it, please contact the artist.
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Anna Anjos
From São Paulo, SP
www.annaanjos.com
Anna Anjos combines stilyzed shapes and playful elements to achieve a unique creation, showing an original work in which colors plays with shapes. This creation chemistry reveals a very special artwork: innocent characters showing its delicate appearance, but stating its firm personality and emotions. Anna is an art-illustrator and has produced advertising campaigns and projects for companies such as Nestlé (2010) and Bandeirantes Television (2011) and for the municipal government of the city of Recife (2011). Her illustrations were also published in magazines and books from big Brazilian publishing houses such as Abril, FTD and Moderna. The artist currently collaborates with the new collection “Art and Rock” for the restaurant chain Spoleto, which has Rock in Rio as theme.
El Rey - Digital illustration
Carmen Afrotropical Digital Illustration
Carnaval Multicultural Recife Digital Illustration
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Cristina Cenciarelli From Rome, Italy Lives in Cairú / Boipeba, BA The Italian-born Cristina Cenciarelli has studied photography in Rome and New York, having also worked with theatre, advertising and journalism. Her pictures have been published on important magazines from Italy, France, United States, Germany and have been exhibited in Europe, in the United States and in Brazil. In 2003 she moved to Boipeba – an island in Bahia, Brazil –, where she has been researching about the island’s culture and traditions, through the creation of the Association Luz Cultural and the Library Edite da Vida.
Boipeba, lugar sem tempo “On the Boipeba island, time flows in a unique cadence, followed by the sea rythm, regulated by the absolute light and by the darkness. It is governed by ancient wisdom gestures, timeless – such as fishing, ‘candomblé’ and the act of stopping to watch the sea and take a breath. Each moment is unique and different, as photography. On the Boipeba island, it is necessary to learn to wait. The atmosphere is special. These men and women lives are a permanent way to learn. No one can explain, it is necessary to accept each moment that passes by here, letting it penetrate in the skin, treating it carefully, living and loving it, because this moment belongs to you – and to the island as well.” Excerpt written by Cristina Cenciarelli
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Eduardo Fonseca From Ponte Nova, MG Lives in Lisboa, Portugal www.eduardofonseca.com
Eduardo Fonseca graduated in Visual Arts at the Fine Arts School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in the city of Belo Horizonte. “This period was essential to my artistic education. It was then that I chose to dedicate myself to painting. However, before arriving to this point there were plenty of random experiments which have conducted to my choices”, he says. The oil painting was a discovery that made Eduardo see a new world, full of infinite possibilities. “The light did not only reproduce reality but became an interpretation of reality. A shadow wasn’t the light absence anymore, but a bunch of colours that fits into a certain space.” Another element always present in his work is the critical humor. “I contest things that don’t seem ok, but I don’t go straight to the point, I rather go slowly. I surround things, check what is going on, experiment a bit, and then I finally gather the subject to express myself freely!”
Memory Game Oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm
Cockfight
Oil on canvas 125 x 45 cm
Sacred
Gold leaf and oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm
Almost
Oil on canvas 140 x 90 cm
Gaza Strip I Oil on canvas 125 x 95 cm
Gaza Strip II Oil on canvas 125 x 95 cm
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Irena
Freitas
From Vitória, ES Lives in Manaus, AM http://cargocollective.com/irenafreitas
Irena Freitas is 20 years old and studies Design and Journalism. “For me, to draw is to extend childhood a bit more, to transform ideas into images”. That’s why she is interested in children’s illustration and in drawing what she calls “pretty girls”. Inspiration comes from what the artist reads, watches and listens, being these influences reflected in her drawings.
Nymphs
Digital illustration
Summer babes Digital illustration
Zumblorg
Digital illustration
Children of the forest Digital illustration
Kissed by fire
Digital illustration
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Ise
Araújo
From São Paulo, SP Lives in Fortaleza, CE www.flickr.com/ise_arte
Ise Araújo’s work comprises urban art, pop art and what she calls “expressiocynicism”. Since she has decided to free her drawings from her notebooks, she has worked with canvas, wood, wheat-paste and cardboard. Her characters have a bit of infant, playful and circus universe. In her art she strives to be in touch with everything that is capable of provoking her and bringing her good memories. “Maybe that’s a way to get rid from the weight of reality which comes along with time.”
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Leandro Neves From São Paulo, SP
http://leandroneves.daportfolio.com Leandro Neves teaches photography and is a fashion and advertising photographer. Living between São Paulo and Rio, he has always researched about lighting and image post-production. Leandro believes that, in photography, more than the subject, it’s the light that tells the story.
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Luiz
Pegoraro From Florian贸polis, SC Lives in London, England www.luizpegoraro.com
Luiz Pegoraro is graphic designer and skateboarder. After getting tired of working with briefings, he decided to devote himself more to things that give him pleasure. He graduated in Design at the University of Santa Catarina and then started to paint in 2010, when he moved from the beautiful Florian贸polis to the freezing London. He has just concluded his postgraduate studies in Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. The main focus of his work are portraits of people he admires or who live around him. In addition to oil paintings, Luiz ventures into other media, such as sculptures with cheap materials and composition of images in layers of cardboard.
Full English breakfast Oil on canvas 60 x 75 cm
I love London, but London doesn’t love me Art installation Newspaper, clothes and garbage bags
Keena Acrylic on cardboard layers 50x50cm
Leaving - Jimmy Garrison Oil on canvas 50x65cm
Leaving - Herbie Hancock Oil on canvas 50x65cm
Leaving - Stanley Turrentine Oil on canvas 50x65cm
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Pedro Ferreira
Lambuja From Juiz de Fora, MG Lives in São Paulo, SP www.flickr.com/pedrohenriqueferreira www.murro.com.br (soon)
“Illustrator in education and honored sailor; a psychotic lover and expert in garden snails; and an avowed lighters thief who had never taken anyone’s virginity.”
Homemade Apocalypse Digital illustration
Jonny T lovers Digital illustration
Ambr贸sio Priest Digital illustration
Tokio Digital illustration
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Cris/Trak
Amorim
From São Paulo, SP www.flickr.com/photos/trakamorim
Cris Amorim graduated in Advertising at the Ibero-American University Center. Recently, she also graduated in Cinema at the Escola Livre de Cinema and she currently studies scenography in SP Escola de Teatro. Known as Trak, Cris works with art direction of short films. And she also draws. “My drawings are abstractions of sensations, little things that affect me in some way and they are somehow symbolic.”
Unexpected hug Ink and watercolor on paper
Sea, Jazz and Whisky Ink and watercolor on paper
Offshore
Green reading
Ink and watercolor on paper
Ink and watercolor on paper
The creation of apples Pencil and watercolor on paper
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Viti
Grosman
From Porto Alegre, RS Lives in Florianópolis, SC www.vitiworks.com
Viti Grosman’s art currently experiences a free and at the same time restrained moment. Free considering he used to divide himself between the dualities anchor/bird, male/female, mundane/fabulous and, at the present time, he has assumed the flight of a bird. He has chosen the female as representative element and plunged into the fabulous world. Restrained because the artist, who has been living for five years in the island of Florianópolis, seems to now be aware of its geographical limitations. He transfers this frontier ground/sea to his paintings, from which female figures and turquoise plans emerge, that sometimes represent heaven and other times the sea. After following the paths suggested by his works of art, one gets the impression that the artist has forever landed in painting and during his flight, is going further.
Blue Jump Acrylic on canvas
New wave Acrylic on canvas
Wandering in blue Acrylic on canvas
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Zé
Otávio From Olímpia, SP Lives in São Paulo, SP www.zeotavio.com
Zé Otávio is passionated about São Paulo since he was 11. This is the city where he currently lives and works. There he has studied Graphic Design at the Fine Arts School and has particularly dedicated himself during the photography and live models classes, getting to contemplate faces and people. He bases his studies in sketchbooks, in which he experiments and abuses of primary colors, collages, tapes, lines and what else paper supports. Zé explores themes like androgeny, sex and the freshness of what is happening on the streets. He currently works with illustration, mainly for the publishing industry, always looking for alternatives and “non-obvious expressions” in both comissioned and galery works. The artist is also a member of the PLUS Galery and of the SketchJazz group, through which he sells originals and prints.
Samanta MIxed media on paper
Andy Warhol MIxed media on paper
Monroe MIxed media on paper
Paul MIxed media on paper
Dark Side MIxed media on paper
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