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I would like to ask you, as curator and author of many books on art, how do you see the borders between curator and critic? Do they still have a voice to determine, for example exhibitions like this year’s Venice Biennale was a really narrative exhibition, or has it all been dissolved with today’s horizontality, with the internet, etc. I have always been someone who makes exhibitions. In German you call it an exhibition maker (ausstellungsmacher) it has always been my practice, but I have also other parallel activities, I write...

Video and Installation: Moleculagem

Curator: Manoela Bowles  

It sure was an enlightened experience to enter the chamber of senses built for the II II II exhibition at Espaço Apis in Rio de Janeiro. An audiovisual installation done by Moleculagem and curator Manoela Bowles as an allegory to Plato’s Cave. Going up a red stairway to the basement of a century old building into a dark uncommon area, barely seeing but aware of the presence of strange objects once used and now only inhabitants of this strange place. Walking a few unsure steps...

Wondering through the busy corridors of the greatest contemporary art fair in London, my eyes did not know where to look with so many works of art in display. The spinning disco balls, Valeska Soares’s Stop Motion (2012), gladly came as a relaxing device for my bombarded mind. She generally provokes sensations and plays with the viewer’s perception. This piece had her signature all over, a path, a labyrinth of mirrored surfaces, a material she commonly uses. It surely was a very good card played by Fortes Vilaça Gallery from São Paulo. They also...

The third edition of the fair focused on Latin-American art had its substance in Neoconcretism, a distinctly Brazilian vanguard movement, and Op Art as its special guest. In general, Abstraction reigned. It is my favourite kind of aesthetics, that is why I enjoyed the fair so much. Furthermore, the re-enactment of Lygia Clarks's performance "Collective Body" (1959) by English girls made me think about the differences in our culture and wonder if they understood the Tropicalism spirit. Nevertheless, it was good to see how the world is so into Brazil now, with...

For his first individual exhibition in Latin America the Danish-Icelandic artist presented 10 site-specific works developed in response to the stimulus provoked in him by the city of São Paulo. These are works that invite the public to experiment with the perception of colour, spatial orientation and other forms of involvement with reality. The installations at Sesc Pompeia, a late industrial site transformed into cultural centre during the 80's by Lina Bo Bardi, are generous spaces for Eliasson's conceptions and together they invite the surrounding to coexist.   This video features some...