IA visual arts and music exhibition

Exhibition brings together works by postgraduate researchers in visual arts and music from IA

The Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts and Music at Unicamp's Institute of Arts (IA) opened, this Monday (15), at the IA Arts Gallery (Gaia), an exhibition with works created by researchers in the development phase. course completion. These are installations, photoperformances, video art works and visual art works that promote both reflection on artistic production and on art itself, according to the director of Gaia, professor Sérgio Niculitcheff.

Until February 16th, works by artists/researchers Anderson Ramirez Kalter, Andressa Boel, Elena Partesotti, Henrique Detomi de Albuquerque, Marco Antonio Sanches Cherfêm, Michael Jorge da Silva, Natália Silva Xavier, Norma Maria Mobilon and Rafael Scheibe can be viewed Coutinho.

Niculitcheff remembers that the exhibition is not intended to be a synthesis of the work of these artists, nor a review of what the study of arts at Unicamp is. “This is not an exhibition that intends to cover all the research currently carried out by the artist, especially because the space does not accommodate this and because these students probably have other works in development. Here we just make a cut”, explains the director.

“But, in any case, the exhibition represents the diversity of what has been researched at the University and the different paths that research ends up taking. You will have [in the exhibition] research with painting, installation, photography, etc. And this diversity shows some of the art research being carried out at the University”, says Niculitcheff.

One of the works is by Coutinho, a visual artist, illustrator and designer who made an installation about violence, according to the author of the work himself. “Both from authoritarian regimes and psychological violence”, he summarized. Silva presented a series of works based on the photoperformance technique – in which the performance is performed by the artist for a camera. He said he was also experimenting with video performance, in a series of language research that began seven years ago.
Partesotti, in turn, presented an audiovisual work called “Cenesthetic Defragmentation”, in which images captured by a device are reproduced on a screen. When you move your head to a certain side, for example, the image produces sounds that become a soundtrack. When you raise your hands, another trail appears. “The objective is to hear the sounds that emerge from your movements”, explains the artist. That would be a way of saying that people should listen to their bodies, she added.

Professor and visual artist Mauricius Martins Farina, associate director of IA, says he is proud of the quality of the artistic work currently developed at Unicamp. He remembers that the exhibition is only a small part of the researchers' artistic production and makes a reservation. “This is a small exhibition, of students who have already defended their master's or doctorate degrees, but this exhibition is very contemporary. There is audiovisual work, painting, installation work, sculpture, with a lot of diversity and high quality”, he assures.

“I've been at Unicamp since January 1984 and since then what we've seen is growth. I arrived here and was pleasantly surprised. This is a high-quality exhibition that could be anywhere in the world. This is not a provincial, school exhibition. No. This is an exhibition that would be visible in any major contemporary art center in the world”, he emphasizes.
Fabiana Silva dos Santos, 15 years old, who participates in the 20th edition of Ciência e Arte nas Férias (CAF) – a program in which students from public schools in Campinas, Limeira and Piracicaba carry out a series of research activities in University laboratories –, was at the opening of the exhibition in the early afternoon. A student at the Professor Francisco Álvares State School, she said this was the first time she had been to an art gallery.

“This is a very interesting experience. You can think about what was the mechanism that led the artist to do something in a certain way, the mix of colors, the choice of elements”, said the student. “This has been really cool”, she added, who participated, at the end of the visit, in a conversation with the artists.

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Visitation: until February 16, 2024

Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, except holidays

Location: Art Gallery of the Institute of Arts (Gaia)

Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, s/nº - Ground floor of the Central Library 'César Lattes'