Bordallo Pinheiro Art Collection – Dialogue between contemporary artists and the Bordallian universe

Exhibition at Instituto Camões presents works by Brazilian and Portuguese artists, in a reinterpretation of the artistic legacy of Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro

*Contemporary artists create ceramic pieces inspired by the work of an art icon in Portugal

*Open to visitation from 13 to 30 of June, at Instituto Camões, with free admission

Artists from Brazil and Portugal studied the work of one of the biggest names in ceramics, caricature and journalism in Portugal and the result can be seen at Instituto Camões, located in the building of the Embassy of Portugal.

The exhibition Bordallo Pinheiro Art Collection – Dialogue between contemporary artists and the Bordallo universe brings together the work of 15 prominent art names in both countries and will be open from 13 to 30 of June, from Monday to Friday, from 12h to 17h, and admission is free.

Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro is one of the most relevant personalities of Portuguese culture in the 19th century, with a notable production mainly in the areas of humorous drawing, caricature and ceramic creation.

His work as a whole is very up-to-date., being a fundamental document for the political study, social, cultural and ideological of a time. It was this unique profile that enabled the creation of a project that invites contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian artists to come into deeper contact with Bordallo's work..

The exhibition on display at the Camões Institute presents the work of artists who were invited to spend ten days at the Bordallo Pinheiro factory in Caldas da Rainha, in the central region of Portugal, to familiarize yourself with the master's manufacturing techniques and seek inspiration for your own pieces.

The project culminated in the creation of a unique collection, limited edition to 250 copies, that can be purchased – exception for those already sold out – and whose details will be accessible through a QR Code attached to the entrance of the exhibition space.

Bordallo Pinheiro Art Collection – Dialogue between contemporary artists and the Bordallo universe brings together the works of Brazilian artists Barrão, Maria Lynch, Marcos Chaves, Regina Silveira, Adriana Barreto, Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Fábio Carvalho, Laércio Redondo, Antonio Carlos Auad, Angelo Venosa and Maria Bonomi and the Portuguese Regina Silveira, bela silva, Joana Vasconcelos and Cabrita Reis. The set reveals how these artists captured the passion, creativity, the social conscience, humor and the transgression of ideas disseminated in Bordallo's plays, which are an artistic and historical heritage of Portuguese culture.

RAPHAEL BORDALLO PINHEIRO

Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro (1846- 1905) born in lisbon, in a family of artists. Attended the School of Dramatic Arts, the Academy of Fine Arts and the Superior Course of Arts, establishing himself primarily as a journalist, caricaturist and ceramist. He was a member of the circle of intellectuals and naturalist artists who defined the Generation of the 1870 and was close to personalities from the most diverse sectors of influence in society. Aware of the power of the press, uniquely used his humorous drawings to portray politics and society. His caricatures are a devastating critique of political performances, using humor as a strategy to fight for a freer and fairer society.

Bordallo created the character Zé-Povinho, which became a kind of symbol of the Portuguese people, for the illustrated magazine A Lanterna Mágica in 12 June 1875. with symbolic content, used the character to denounce injustices and, through it, showed the Portuguese that laughter can be a weapon or a medicine. Collaborated in several newspapers in Portugal and Brazil, where did you live from 1875 to 1879. He was the founder of the newspaper Antonio Maria, in political humor, who chronicled Portuguese society. with the pottery, won international awards, becoming a world reference in the area.

Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro's ceramic work truly began with the founding of the Fábrica de Faianças das Caldas da Rainha (1884). Drawing from the naturalistic origins of ceramics in Caldas da Rainha, Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro reinvented and updated it, producing hundreds of models of great creativity and refined technical quality. Recognized in several international exhibitions, with special emphasis on the Portuguese pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition (1889).

ARTISTS AND WORKS

I LIKE YOU SO MUCH

“It was fun picking up a stoic-looking frog and, changing hand position and replacing her long feet with high heels, turn him into a naughty frog ready for love”.

bela silva – Lives in Brussels. Born in Lisbon. Master in Sculpture by ESBAL, Ceramics course at Ar.Co, Master of Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. The individual exhibitions are part of: “Before the sea, the waters, National Tile Museum, and “A Look at the Palace”, National Museum of Ajuda. He has participated in group exhibitions in Brazil, Japan, China, France, New York and Chicago. There is Public Art at the Alvalade subway station, Tile Panels, Saikai Cultural Center, Japan. It is represented in different collections in Portugal and abroad..

ELEPHANTS

“I have known for some years two elephants that live at the back of the Bordallo Pinheiro Earthenware Factory.. They live in the company of snails, frogs, chickens, Ducks, bees, many birds and other animals. I have a good memory of the day we spoke for the first time., We became friends. When I was asked to design a piece for the 125 years of Bordallo Pinheiro, I went to ask them for help. They are the authors of the things I made for this birthday… I just watched.”

Fernando Brizio – Born in 1968, in Angola, studied Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, the city where you live and work. Developed projects for organizations and companies His work is regularly exhibited and published internationally, is part of Mude's permanent collection – Museum of Design and Design and Fashion, from the Francisco Capelo Collection, from the IMA's Indianapolis Museum of Art, as well as numerous private collections.

DUET

Celebrates the 125th anniversary of the founding of Fábrica de Faianças das Caldas da Rainha, bringing together the work of two of the most relevant and influential Portuguese artists: Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro (1846-1905) and contemporary artist Joana Vasconcelos. An amazing choreography performed by swallows and fish (up) in ceramic forms.

Joana Vasconcelos – Born in Paris, in 1971. Lives and works in Lisbon. She was the artist chosen to represent Portugal at the Venice Biennale in 2013, with the Trafaria Praia project. In 2012, held a solo exhibition at the Palace of Versailles in France, becoming the first woman and youngest artist to exhibit at this historic site. His career also includes exhibitions at institutions such as the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. (Porto, 2000); Venice Biennale (2005); The New Art GalleryWalsall (Walsall, 2007); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, 2008); Berardo Collection Museum (Lisboa, 2010); Palazzo Grassi (Venice, 2011) e Kunsthallen Brandts (Odense, Denmark, 2011). His work is part of numerous public and private collections..

QUEEN'S BROTH

“The soup kitchen that was forgotten for four centuries, now exuding only the generosity of the one who gave the city its name, serves as a shelter for beings of the most varied forms, there still looking for that warm opening gesture.”

Adriana Barreto – Was born in 1949, in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives and works. His biography is marked by exhibitions in various institutions., among which stand out: Museum of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro; MAM – Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro; Bahia Museum of Modern Art, in Salvador, Brazil-American Cultural Institute in Washington; BIDE – Interamerican Development Bank, in Washington, and Oi Futuro Flamengo, in Rio de Janeiro.

TERRINA NOÉ

In continuity with the poetics of appropriation of objects by Barrão, detaching them from their original contexts and uses and giving them new meaning, we arrived at Terrina Noé. a naturalistic composition, based on the ceramic universe of Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro.

Barrão – Sculptor and multimedia artist born in Rio de Janeiro, 1959, starts his artistic career with Grupo Seis Mãos, 1983-1991, formed with Ricardo Basbaum and Alexandre Dacosta. Receives the Brasilia Plastic Arts Prize, at the Museum of Art of Brasilia, in 1990. In 2010, participates in the Next Future project at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Portugal. In 1995, in partnership with artist Luiz Zerbini and video and film editor Sérgio Mekler, created the group Chelpa Ferro, who works with sculpture, technological installations and electronic music.

FLOREIRO ARCHEIRO

“The piece Floreiro Archeiro, which has the Archeiro vase as a starting point, it is the result of a collage of appropriate elements from several other pieces, that together form a new piece. All details of Floreiro Archeiro are original creations by Bordallo Pinheiro or those who succeeded him.. It is a markedly decorative piece., but at the same time utilitarian: it will only be when its owner completes it, using it as a flower box”.

Fabio Carvalho – Born in Rio de Janeiro, 1965, participated in important projects for mapping the emerging production in Brazil in the years 90, when you started your career. He has held nine individual exhibitions and participated in more than eighty group exhibitions., both in Brazil and abroad. Fábio Carvalho has more than sixty works of his own in public and private collections, in Brazil and abroad.

RUFUS BAKERY

“Furnarius rufus is the scientific name of a bird popularly known as john-de-barro. This bird builds its nest using straw and dry manure mixed with wet clay.. The shape of the nest resembles that of an oven., hence the relationship between the bird and the oven. Work unites the nest, the house, Bordallo's art to the walls of the sculpture in the color tones of the original panel, but de-characterizing the original tile.”

Laerte Ramos – Born in São Paulo, 1978, graduated in Fine Arts from Faap and participated in residencies in France, Switzerland and Holland. Participated in exhibitions at institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, City of Arts (Paris), Brazilian Art Museum (FAAP), Palace of Arts/Clovis Salgado Foundation, in Belo Horizonte, and Maria Antonia University Center, in São Paulo, among others. Among the awards received, highlight for the 8th Sea Biennial – Victory; Projectiles Award, Funarte – Rio de Janeiro; Acquisition Award, Lelocleprints 04, Fine Arts Museum of Le Locle, Switzerland, among other.

THE WALLS HAVE EARS

“I have always thought of this popular proverb as an admission of a bit of paranoia., surreal, mistaking walls for people, as if everything we say is of interest to everyone else. That's when I thought I might be distracted by other matters, instead of ours, and I thought about the headphones, an enlarged facsimile of the Apple so widespread in the contemporary world. Bringing together two objects with drawings made in such different times, a hundred years between them, I had the opportunity to pay homage to two geniuses, Bordallo Pinheiro and Steve Jobs, in addition to creating a new context, a new piece, with humor, which is also one of Bordallo’s trademarks”.

Marcos Chaves – Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1961 and began his artistic activity in the first half of the 80. Working within the parameters of appropriation and intervention, his work is characterized by the use of various instruments, moving freely between producing objects, photographs, videos, drawings, words and sounds. Held individual and group exhibitions in institutions and galleries in Brazil and abroad..

THE LAST LOBSTER

“A fantastic context, where the big animals invert their scale with the lobster and attack it. The giant lobster becomes the centerpiece for the animal kingdom to sample this expensive and exquisite dish.. With a dramatic blood tone, makes us think that we are the next to attack these edible animals that lie there in a tray, ready to go in the oven.

Maria Lynch – Born in 1981, in Rio de Janeiro, won the Funarte Prize for Marcantônio Vilaça, was an invited artist for the 6th Bienal de Curitiba Vento Sul and in 2012 invited to exhibit at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro. Maria is present in some public collections in Brazil, as in the Museum of Contemporary Art/Niterói, Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection MAM-RJ, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Itamaraty Palace, DF; and abroad, as in the Fine Arts Olympic Committee 2012, in London.

HAUNTED

“I opted for the silhouette of my hand, like a kind of imprint and shadow of myself, in association with the unmistakable frogs of Bordallo, your favorite brand. With them heaped in my hand, in a tall and precarious pile, and still covered virtually by another black shadow, I tried to create – with the frogs and the hand – a kind of visual ideogram that re-signifies the strange junction on the lid of the tureen.”

Regina Silveira – Born in Porto Alegre, 1939, lives in São Paulo. He studied Art at the UFRGS Institute of Arts and did his Master's and Doctorate in Arts at the School of Communications and Arts at USP. Recently, held some individual exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, as in the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2005), “Tropel Reversed”, no Køge Art Museum, Denmark (2009), “Shadow Line”, in the Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (2009), “Abyssal”, at the Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, Poland (2010). The artist also received the Prize in Arts, for life and work, awarded by the Bunge Foundation (2009), and the Art Critics Grand Prize, assigned to Tramazul, at MASP (2010/2011), by APCA (Paulista Association of Art Critics), in 2011.

BYZANTINE WITH SMOKE

“I worked from one of my favorite sculptures by Bordallo Pinheiro, the byzantine cat. I started by tracing with my fingers the patterns on the still wet surface of the cat, fresh out of the mould., as a way of studying the topography of the piece, and gradually added elements from the sculptural lexicon that I have been exploring in my own work. I underlined these effects using enamels and proposed inverting the original use of the piece in a certain way., turning it from a spittoon into a censer.”

Tiago Carneiro Da Cunha – Was born in 1973 in São Paulo and currently lives in Rio de Janeiro. His most recent and notable exhibitions “Law of the Jungle” – of which he was appointed curator by Lehmann Maupin Gallery Maupin Gallery, NewYork, 2010 – and “New Work”: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova”, currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art SF MoMA Museum of Modern Art SF MoMA, San Francisco. His work is featured in public and private collections., such as the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection (Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro), the Saatchi Collection (United Kingdom) and also the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum TB21 (Áustria).

SERMON TO THE FISHES

“The idea of ​​the work was to modify the religious content of the original piece, making it a little more “abstract”, something like a sculpture of waves that refers to a very characteristic Portuguese and Brazilian maritime landscape. Bring a piece from the public that knows Bordallo's production, in addition to drawing a relationship with the works of my personal artistic production.”

Antonio Carlos Auad – Anthony Carlos (Tonic) Lemos Auad was born in 1968, in Belem, Pará. Graduated in Urban Architecture, FAU/USP. With a CAPES grant, obtained a Master's degree from Goldsmith University of London. Use drawings, installations and photographs and with these he seeks to expose his daily experiences, mostly unnoticed, for a greater perception and reflection of the spectator. Lives and works in London. Already exhibited in London, Glasgow, New York, Sao Paulo and Antwerp.

NOT DEEP BLUE

“Two lobsters on their backs, in duel, would make the paws a kind of framework, a rib cage from which an egg would hatch, why not? Surrealist mockery, ground that had never been trodden. almost black blue, bright, and an egg just an egg.”

Angelo Venosa – Born in São Paulo, where he attends Escola Brasil in 1973. It moved to Rio de Janeiro, in the year 1974, where he graduated in Industrial Design at ESDI (Industrial Design School). His career includes passages through the Bienal de São Paulo (1987), Brazilian twentieth century art (1987, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris), Venice Biennale (1993), and Mercosul Biennial (2005). In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (MAM RJ) dedicated a solo exhibition to him in commemoration of the 30 year career, that followed roaming to the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Palace of Arts in Belo Horizonte and MAMAM in Recife. In 2008 the first book about his work was launched and in 2013 the second, both published by Editora Cosac Naify.

THE DISCIPLINE OF LOVE

Interpretation by the artist Maria Bonomi for the book “A disciplina do amor”, by the writer Lygia Fagundes Telles, gathering travel stories, memoirs, diaries and fragments of thoughts of the author.

Maria Bonomi – Label, sculptor, painter, muralist, Curator, costume designer, scenographer and teacher born in Italy (1946) and based in São Paulo. Performs the first individual in 1956, in the same year that he receives a scholarship from the Ingram-Merrill Foundation and studies at the Pratt Institute Graphics Center, in New York. In parallel, studies printmaking and art theory at Columbia University, also in New York. Back to Brazil, attends the Metal Engraving Workshop with Johnny Friedlaender (1912-1992), the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro – MAM/RJ, in 1959. The following year, in São Paulo, founds the engraving studio, with Livio Abramo. From the years 1970, also dedicates himself to sculpture. Produces panels of large proportions for public spaces.

NATURE

Centerpiece created by artist Pedro Cabrita Reis.

Cabrita Reis – One of the leading visual artists of his generation and one of the most internationally recognized Portuguese artists, (Pedro) Cabrita Reis was born in Lisbon in 1956. His work encompasses a wide variety of media. – painting, sculpture, photography and drawing. Pedro Cabrita Reis lives and works in Lisbon. His trait can also be found in music., signing record covers like the album “Acoustic”, by Júlio Pereira. His work has been exhibited and is present in numerous national and international museum collections..

SURF, SARDINES AND FROGS

A centerpiece made up of small green frogs and natural-colored sardines. This piece conceived from the original molds designed by Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro combines and respects the spontaneity and delicacy, so characteristic of the author's work.

Joana Vasconcelos – Born in 1971, is a visual artist recognized worldwide for her monumental sculptures, with a practice of 25 years that extends to drawing and video. His work updates the arts and crafts movement for the 21st century, incorporating everyday objects, with humor and irony, bridging the gap between the private and the public sphere, questioning the status of women, consumer society and collective identity.

SERVICE
Local: Instituto Camões – Embassy of Portugal (SES Off. of Nations, Block 801, Batch 2)
Visitation: from 13 to 30 of June
Timetables: from Monday to Friday, from 12h to 17h
FREE ENTRY