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Cover-: Dora Longo Bahia «who’afraid of red-?» 1999 Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 180 cm
Itinerary [E] 3
Proposal [E] 8
Projet et workshop [F] 9
Summary
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
2CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
Dora Longo Bahia(Brazil)
The work I have been doing this past year consists of figurative paintings almost totally monochromes where the image itself appears in a pictorial mist.
The first works of this series are white paintings portraying men with the proportions of documental photographs. The paintings are ghosts, remains of images. In 1998, during a working period in Paris, I made misty landscapes paintings appropriating the grey and beige colours typical of the city as well as the diagonal incidence of the sun light common there and directly opposed to the white vertical light of the tropics (Sao Paulo) and covered them with fog through veils of paint.
The photographs of the paintings were considered bad by the technicians from the laboratory because the images were not clear enough (this being related to the painting itself but ignored by the technicians). I became interested in how photography can deceive and what bad photography is.
Starting a research on friends and family archives, I selected antique photographs and grouped them, following alterations of colours or of the image itself (for example, interference of fungus).
From some of these antique 6x6 slides, I continued the monochrome series, using images of mothers with babies, that through a peculiarity of the old film or an alteration due to time, had become totally red. The images on the paintings continue to appear as red ghosts, in a red environment, involved by a red mist. I also transfered them on different surfaces like glass, parchement or leather, through transfer (photo-copies) or prints and rephotographed them, printing them as cibachromes.
In 1999, during a working period at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam I explored the image made un-clear, with no definition or considered wrong or damaged through painting, printing and photography. I painted
the images from old slides on red canvas and after covering them with greenish veils of paint, scratched them until the red showed through. The name of the series is «who’s afraid of red?» hommaging Barnett Newman’s work «who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?» and whose painting was badly damaged by a maniac at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
I also did a series of silkscreens, «Infected images», using images from musty slides. I stressed the damage on the surface, creating a relief through etching similar to pimples or warts on human skin. Rephotographing the slides on a white canvas with someone under or over it, I intended to propose an ambiguous surface to the images. The person appears ghostly on the scene, altering the proportions and straight lines of the photographic perspective. I am planning to make light boxes with transparent film only on the infected spots.
Related to a current master course at the University of Sao Paulo, I am developping a different project. It consists in creating a documentation of the work of a fictitious artist who would have lived in Brazil during the dictatorship years (late sixties, early seven-ties). His name is Marcelo do Campo and his work consists of performances and ephemeral installations having sex and vilence as the main theme. I have started documenting two of his supposed perfor-mances through video and photography. As various artists involved in politics fled Brazil during these years (Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, Antonio Dias…) some of Marcelo’s work could be developped in Europe.
I would like to stress my difficulty in establishing a well prepared and concrete working plan as I am doing various researches and would like to let the influences of a different environment act on them.
Dora Longo Bahia
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
3CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
Born in São Paulo - SP, Brazil, 1961
Education [1987] BA in Visual Arts, FAAP - Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo
Solo exhibitions[2000] Crown Gallery, Bruxelas, Bélgica Noname Gallery, Rotterdam, Holanda[1998] Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France[1997] Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo[1996] Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina[1994] Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo[1993] Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo Pulitzer Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands[1991] Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo[1990] Pulitzer Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands[1989] Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
Group exhibitions-/-festivals[2000] Imagem Experimental, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Taller Internacional de Artistas LA LLAMA, Fundación CELARG, Caracas, Venezuela[1999] Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Holand[1998] VII Salão MAM – Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil Horizonte Reflexivo, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 14th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany Inside Out - Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival of Toronto, Toronto, Canada O Cinema Cultural Paulista - Mostra do Audiovisual Paulista Ano XI, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo Exposition Collective, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France Medidas de Si , Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo; Instituto Itaú Cultural, Campinas, SP Da Arte de Expor, Museu de arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo [1997] 25 Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte, Centro Cultural da UFMG,Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil VI Salão MAM - Bahia, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil A Gift to India, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi, India 5 Festival Mix Brasil da Diversidade Sexual 97, São Paulo Festival Caribeño, Santiago, Cuba VI Bienal de Havana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba 5 Festival de Cinema e Vídeo Cuiabá, Cuiabá, MS, Brazil ARCO 97- Galeria Luisa Strina, Feira de Arte Contemporânea de Madrid, Spain[1996] Ouro de Artista, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
Dora Longo Bahia(Brazil)
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
4CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
IV Festival Mix Brasil da Diversidade Sexual 96, Espaço Unibanco de Cinema, São Paulo[1995] Basel Art Fair, Stand da Galeria Luisa Strina, Basel, Switzerland[1994] 20 Anos de Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo Caderno de Artista 2, Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, PR, Brazil Ainda a Figura, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo Basel Art Fair, Stand da Galeria Luisa Strina, Basel, Switzerland Caderno de Artista, Livraria Belas Artes, São Paulo Projeto Leonilson, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo[1993] Braziliaanse Kunstenaars, Pulitzer Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mostra dos Selecionados, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo [1991] Imaginário Popular - Semana Euclidiana, Museu Rio-Pardense, São José do Rio Pardo, SP, Brazil[1990] Atelier da Vic - 27 Anos de Arte, Galeria ARS, ARTIS, São Paulo Projeto Inaugural da Programação da Passagem da Consolação, São Paulo [1989] Coleção Particular de Eduardo Brandão, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo[1988] Flores, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo[1986] IV Salão de Arte Contemporânea, Pavilhão da Bienal de São Paulo
A Gráfica Contemporânea - Módulo IV IN-Formação, Espaço de Exposições Humberto Tecidos, São Paulo [1985] VIII Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil A Sinhazinha, o Mulato, o Negão e o Carrasco - desenhos, gravuras, objetos, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo Conexão Urbana II - Madame Satã, São Paulo Conexão Urbana, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Exposição/Eventos - Coletiva de Artistas, Salão Cultural da FAAP, São Paulo Tributo a Nosferatu - Um espetáculo gastronômico, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo[1984] VI Mostra de Gravura de Curitiba - Pan-americana, Casa da Gravura, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Performances /sets[1996] Set for the dance performance HUID from Rose Akras, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [1995] Set for the dance performance UIARA, from Rose Akras, Stadsschouburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Set and sound track for the dance performance De Dragões e Heróis, from Rose Akras and Reginaldo Dutra, Teatro Sergio Cardoso, São Paulo[1994] Performance - Disk Putas Releasing of the video clip VAI COMER OU QUER QUE EMBRULHE?, Cha Cha Cha, São Paulo Releasing of the magazine Lúcifer, Blen Blen Club, São Paulo
(Dora Longo Bahia’s itinerary, continued)
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
5CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
Energetic Zines 2, Secretaria do Estado da Cultura, São Paulo Set and sound track for the dance performance Over Draken en Helden, from Rose Akras and Reginaldo Dutra, Korzo theater, Den Haag, RASA, Utrecht; Löss Theater, Maastricht; Julidans, Amsterdam, Theater Kikker, Utrecht, The Netherlands [1993] Performance - Disk Putas Os Melhores da Noite Ilustrada, Columbia, São Paulo Opening of Festival Mix Brasil, Columbia, São Paulo Set and sound track for the dance performance SANTAS, from Rose Akras, Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands[1992] Performance - Disk Putas Aeroanta, São Paulo Columbia, São Paulo Der Tempel, São Paulo[1989] Project Metropolitan Art Museu - Artists invited to paint trucks, São Paulo Nelson Leirner expõe Projeto Aula, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo [1986] Tá pintando na Rua, Out-door, Avenida Sumaré, São Paulo Set for the dance performance PERDIDOS PELO TEMPO, do Grupo Marzipan, Teatro SESC Fábrica da Pompéia, São Paulo[1985] Set for the dance performance ZÉ GATUNO, do Grupo Marzipan, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo [1984] Art Performance Festival, Radar Tantã, São Paulo
(Dora Longo Bahia’s itinerary, continued)
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
6CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
7CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
who’s afraid of red ? - 1999acrylic on canvas (180 x 180 cm)
dark photograph (to C.M.) - 1999cibachrome (50 x 50 cm)
untitled (infected images) - 2000silk screen & etching on paper (45 x 45 cm)
untitled - 2000cibachrome (50 x 50 cm)
untitled - 2000cibachrome (50 x 50 cm)
During my working period at the ECAV, I would like to explore images of an unclear, blurred identity-: with no definition or considered wrong through painting, printing or photography.
I would like also to stress my difficulty to establish a well prepared and concrete work plan as I am also doing various researches with mono-prints through cut supports (paper, parchement, leather), videos and small embroideries and objects. I would like not only to take something in progress from Brazil but also to let the different environment I will be submitted to change my work.I have had a period of great reflection upon my work and now I am starting to do something that may arrive somewhere. I know that ECAV has a wonderful orientation and, that, above all, is what appeals to me the most-: to stimulate the reflection upon the artistic doing.
Proposal
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
8CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
Projet et workshop
« Quand les attitudes déforment les altitudes » - Le workshop animé par l’artiste avait pour objectif de questionner le statut de l’oeuvre de l’art et la véracité de la documentation artistique par le biais d’une enquête sur la tradition artistique suisse.Depuis la moitié des années soixante, des changements fondamentaux se sont produits dans les comportements humains. Différents mouvements parmi lesquels on peut mentionner les mouvements estudiantin, féministe, socialiste et pacifique ont altéré la manière de percevoir et d’interpréter le monde. La dénommée « nouvelle avant-garde » des années soixante et septante a réactualisé des moyens artistiques alternatifs propres aux avant-gardes des années vingt - performance, techniques d’impression, collage - afin de mettre en question des principes établis relatifs à l’art et à la vie.
Le travail proposé consistait à mener en groupe une enquête sur des questions toujours pertinentes mises en exergue lors de cette période d’intenses transformations conceptuelles, sociales et politiques - 1965-1975 -. Il s’agissait concrètement de produire une documentation fictionnelle sur un événement situé dans une période déterminée en passant par les étapes suivantes :- recherche conceptuelle, iconographique et esthétique sur les années 1965-1975;- documentation vidéophonique et photographique sur un événement - « happening » - qui se déroulerait à Sierre;- développement et montage des images sur la base d’une révision des modèles esthétiques de l’époque;- exposition publique du travail.
L’artiste présente ainsi sa démarche :« Le film « Quand les attitudes déforment les altitudes » estle produit d’une action collective qui a été réalisée par les artistes du groupe « FOEHN » entre le 22 mars et le 27 avril 1969.
Le Front Ordinaire pour une Esthétique Helvétique Neutre (FOEHN) a été constitué au milieu de l’année 1968 par un groupe de jeunes artistes résidant en Suisse
L’action collective « Quand les attitudes déforment les altitudes »s’est produite parallèlement à l’exposition « Quand les attitudes deviennent forme » organisée par Harald Szeeman à la Kunsthalle de Berne en 1969.
Durant toute la période de l’exposition (22 mars au 27 avril 1969), Poisson Urbain, Migrolina Rose, Robert Camile Udriot, Marcelo do Campo, Noé Solog, Carlton W.R.S., Curupira, Klara Gama, Zoé Call et les intégrantes de l’Exaspérante Production ont résidé dans un bunker de carton qu’ils avaient eux-mêmes construit. Les jeunes artistes voulaient manifester sur le mode ironique contre la conservation de valeurs obsolètes liées à l’art et/ou à la vie, en révélant la fragilité des soi-disant protections et le danger de l’isolement volontaire.
MANIFESTOPourquoi foehner?Parce que le contexte est fondamental pour la compréhension de l’oeuvre d’art.Parce que la spécificité du temps et de l’espace sont des éléments constitutifs de la formalisation de l’oeuvre d’art.Parce que le rapport entre temps - espace - oeuvre - spectateur est l’essence même de l’oeuvre d’art.Parce que le temps et l’espace sont des abstractions relatives.Parce que l’oeuvre d’art n’existe qu’en tant que tel.Parce que le présent sans présentation est illisible et invisible.Parce que toute représentation est impossible.Parce que l’oeuvre d’art doit être originelle.Parce que l’artiste est à l’origine de l’oeuvre d’art.Parce que l’oeuvre d’art n’existe pas.Parce que l’artiste n’existe pas non plus et que ce fait est irréversible. » Dora Longo Bahia
Les différentes vidéos réalisées lors du workshop ont été présentées au Forum d’Art Contemporain de Sierre (FAC) le 9 mars 2001.
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
9CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
10CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
Sans titre - 2001poisson urbain
A bout de souffle - 2001Marcelo Do Campo
Sans titre - 2001Migrolina Rose
Sans titre - 2001Curupira
Sans titre - 2001Zoe Call
> artists in residence > Dora Longo Bahia
centre de réflexion sur l’image et ses contextes
17/01---04/03/2001
11CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
Quand les attitudes déforment les altitudes - 2001Film produit par le groupe FOEHN (Front Ordinaire pour une Esthétique Helvétique Neutre)