Fernando Lindote: cheating and the Parrot parade Macunaíma

December 1 2015 to 24 April 2016

Ground floor of the exhibition hall

The starting point of the show is the beginning of the Lindote experience as a student of cartoonist Renato Canini-main Brazilian Illustrator José Carioca, the Disney Parrot. The bird with the colors of Brazil – created in 1942, When the United States sought to expand the symbolic power of cultural policies and diplomacy with the South America – was very important in the career of Lindote and permeates to this day his work, constantly being revisited and reimagined, like other foreign characters with strong entry in Latin America. Mórficas operations performed by Lindote the kite-and also by other names – conduct a dialogue with the imaginary constituted since the arrival of our European continent, What originated allegories of America, Brazil symbologies and representations of Rio de Janeiro. The work of the artist who names the exhibition points out the deep relationship of Brazilian art with foreign iconography always dealt with his sights on the tropical nature.

The first presents the start of Fernando Lindote trajectory in the arts focusing on the relationship between the artist and Renato Canini. To contextualize, the exhibition also features illustrations of names like J. Carlos, Bobby Neueschwander, Glauco, Claudio Tozzi, as well as copies of the comics José Carioca, magazine Cacique and O Pasquim. The second part focuses on the biodiversity present in representations of nature in the tropics, having the parrot as one of the national symbols. The core shows the relationships among the natives and the settlers imaginaries in relation to biodiversity with works of Lindote, Frances Manuela Valadão, Albert Eckhout, Sérgio Allevato, Walmor Corrêa, Milton Guran, Ana Miguel and porcelains Art Deco.

The third module is composed of a large number of works produced by Lindote in the years 1990 and 2015, mainly, and that address encoded as operation procedure, plastic artist, Trainer of a universe composed of shower proof only and viscosities. Complete this part three excerpts from the film Best regards, people (Disney, 1948). The imaginary construction of cultural diversity through depictions of Rio de Janeiro conceptualizes the last core. The works here – in addition to knickknacks, postcards, tissues, pictures and characters icons River and Brazil – discuss how the city was used in the age of mass cultures, consolidating it as an area recognized internationally for its ability to set up plastic and graphic symbols.

Fernando Lindote: cheating and the Parrot parade Macunaíma will occupy the ground floor of the exhibition hall of the sea between 1st December 2015 to 24 April 2016. To mark the opening, to 11:00 happens to Gallery Talk with Fernando Lindote, Paulo Herkenhoff, Clarissa Diniz and Leno Veras.

The Museu de Arte do Rio

The MAR is a space dedicated to art and visual culture. Installed in Praca Maua, occupies two adjacent buildings: an older, lying and eclectic style, which houses the Exhibition Hall; another younger, Modernist, Look where the school's work. The architectural design unites the two buildings with a fluid concrete cover, which refers to a wave - a trademark of the museum -, and a ramp, where visitors come to the exhibition spaces.

O MAR, an initiative of the City Government in partnership with the Roberto Marinho Foundation, have activities that involve collecting, registration, search, preservation and return of cultural property to the community. Proactive support space education and culture, the museum was born with a school - the School Look -, whose proposal is innovative museological: foster the development of an educational program of reference for actions in Brazil and abroad, combining art and education from the curatorial program that guides the institution.

The museum has the Globe Group as maintainer, sponsored by BG as Brazil maintains, In addition to Souza Cruz and Itaú as Co-sponsors, Dow as supporter of look and Brookfield as supporter of Educational Visits. It also sponsored the Braskem by means of the law of incentive to the culture of the State of Rio de Janeiro, with the support of the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, and the Ministry of culture and the Federal Government of Brazil through the Federal law of incentive to culture. The management is left to the Odeon Institute.

Service MAR - Museu de Arte do Rio

Entrance: R$ 8 The R $ 4 (half price) - People with up 21 years, private school students, university, disabled people and public servants of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Payment by cash or card (Visa or Mastercard).

Policy free: Do not pay admission - on presentation of Proof Documentation - public school students (teaching elementary and middle), children up to five years or people from 60, public school teachers, employees of museums, groups in situations of social vulnerability educational visit, Neighbors of the sea and tourist guides. Tuesdays admission is free to the general public. On Sunday admission is free for holders of the passport of Museums in Rio that have not yet the stamp of the sea. On the last Sunday of the month the Museum has free entry into all through the project Sunday at sea.

Special visitation schedule in the summer: Tuesdays, from 10h to 19h. From Wednesday to Sunday, das 10h às 17h. On Mondays the museum closes to the public. For more info, contact by phone (55 21) 3031-2741 or visit www.museudeartedorio.org.br.

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