Exhibition “The fourth constructive generation in Rio de Janeiro”

Exhibition “The fourth constructive generation in Rio de Janeiro” receives new works

Adriana Varejão and Beatriz Milhazes are among the artists who will be part of the exhibition

On display since September 2023, at FGV Arte, a space for artistic experimentation and research at Fundação Getulio Vargas, the exhibition “The fourth constructive generation in Rio de Janeiro” will feature new works. The curator, Paulo Herkenhoff, brings important names such as Adriana Varejão and Beatriz Milhazes to reaffirm the complexity and power of what he called the “fourth constructive generation”: “It is a living, ongoing process, open to new discoveries and a proof that curatorial work does not end on the opening day of an exhibition”. The space, which was closed for repairs, reopens on January 19th.

The artists who now make up the exhibition are surprising with their programs and will expand the plastic and political issues of the proposed ensemble. In addition to Adriana Varejão, with a Color Wheel that celebrates the different Brazilian colors and identities, and Beatriz Milhazes, who embodies the festival of colors in the city of Rio de Janeiro, there will be Antonio Ton, who uses the design of sports courts to create a intervention that puts dialogue with peripheral youth on the agenda; Élle by Bernardini, which combines geometry and visual rhythms with gender issues; Júlia Otomorinhori'õ Xavante, indigenous activist from the Maracanã village, who uses ancestral techniques to claim the present; Miguel Afa, who pays homage to the kites and the joy of Rio's children and Bob N, who works in acrylic on canvas to rearticulate the Brazilian constructive generation. The works of these artists are part of those that already make up the exhibition The fourth constructive generation in Rio de Janeiro.

The exposure

The exhibition The Fourth Constructive Generation in Rio de Janeiro now brings together 57 Rio de Janeiro artists of origin, adoption or visitors marked by the city, without generational or language limits. Curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, who defined the city in the 21st century “with new perspectives in the social field of circulation of the work of art”, the concept of “fourth constructive generation” refers to a moment of “greater experimental openness of the relationship with mathematics, topology, number, chance and improvisations, disasters and the crisis of power, in a tangle of political and conceptual agendas, processes of subjectivation, explosion of the outlook from the periphery, new ethos, institutional critique, sensitive geometry of America Latin, introduction of unprecedented material signs of art, almost nothing and zero”.

FGV Arte

Located at FGV's headquarters, in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, FGV Arte is a space focused on appreciation, artistic experimentation and contemporary debates around art and culture that seeks to encourage dialogue with the most creative and heterogeneous sectors of the world. society. The initiative aims to connect, through artistic projects, FGV's own schools, such as the School of Communication, Media and Information (ECMI), the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC) and the School of Mathematics Applied (EMAp). The initiative also provides seminars, methodological workshops and practical training courses for the arts.

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