exhibition curator, Bianca Ramoneda directed a minidoc with Pedro Cezar about the artist's creative process. The original soundtrack is by Pedro Luís
With all the expertise it has gained over the years, 35 years of work at Carnival, since the ages 80, in the barracks of samba schools like Mangueira, Youth and Estácio, among others, in addition to the experience of creating more than 150 stage sets and music videos, award-winning plastic artist and scenographer Sergio Marimba will open the shows “EMPTY CAN BE THE SEA”, in 9 September, with free admission, in the Portrait Cultural Space, in glory.
In the charming ruins of a place that is a reference in carioca photography and also asserts itself as a space for culture, directed by photographer Nana Moraes, the public will see five allegories developed for this exhibition. On wheels, parked in the gallery, they bring in their composition the accumulation of time and the composition of objects creating assemblages.
As complex as playful, they bring together an endless amount of unusual objects that, certainly, are part of the history of all of us. meat grinders, construction plummets, assorted feet of tables and sewing machines, for example, give rise to unique pieces that dismantle the utilitarian idea we make of each object that has become obsolete over time.
With a little imagination and surrender to the impact of being in front of a work of Sergio Marimba, it is possible to be enchanted by the world created by him and give new meaning to that set of allegories so concrete and somewhat absurd. Playing until the day 30 October, each work will reveal very individual characteristics and a world to be explored by the, under the very special lighting of Samuel Betts.
“Marimba is a tireless self-taught. He has an empirical knowledge that comes from the school called Carnaval, in which he learned to do everything. Turns out, he discovered that doing this could lead him to another type of building.. And he opens that way day by day, mining small and large things that you find around the world”, rewinds journalist and writer Bianca Ramoneda, Curator of the exhibition.
Bianca presented by 20 years the “Start”, followed by the “Craft on Stage” (beautiful programs dedicated exclusively to culture, that made up the GloboNews grid) and has been a working partner of Marimba for over 25 years. In your wanderings outside the television script, have already worked together on the cover of an album by singer-songwriter Pedro Luís, full of pipes, and also the art direction of the clip “like two and two”, by cantora Anna Ratto, among other partnerships that worked very well. They are currently working on designing the space for singer Roberta Sá's concert..
Marimba turned into minidoc, original soundtrack and photos
In addition to physical works, the exhibition has a minidoc of, approximately, 10 minutes, about the artist's creative process in the studio, directed by Ramoneda and Pedro Cezar (documentary author “Only ten percent is a lie”, about the poet Manoel de Barros) and with an original soundtrack by the musician and composer Pedro Luís. The publicity photos are by Nana Moraes.
Whoever has memory contradicts Fernando Pessoa and carries, activate, the past in the pocket. Marimba says that she started collecting old objects to bring them back to life in the form of art because this action brought back the smell of the cramped and humble room where her grandfather who was her passion lived..
makes more than 30 years he works in a large studio, with about of 600 m2 spread over three floors, in the Rio Comprido, where he develops projects in various areas – from architecture to art direction – and create your artistic series, which have already been exposed on several occasions., even abroad – among them “Abreugrafias of Brazilian Cinema”, from 2002, and “Soon It Will Be Night Like Every Day”, from 2005.
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“EMPTY CAN BE THE SEA” talks about affective memories and time. The name itself evokes the idea of “the sertão will turn into the sea” and the allegories are, changing into offal, carts, that allude to what we take and leave in the movement of life, dreamily recreated. For Bianca, the plummets refer to the workers who built the big cities.
“This cart touched me a lot. I thought of the people who left their homes in the North and Northeast taking the minimum of the minimum and used the plumb to build the metropolises – when they, indeed, were the plumb”, suggests the curator, with your always sharp look.
The beautiful thing is to think that, today, Marimba makes the allegory she always wanted. And prints on it a truth that can be identified from afar. “Carnival was my art school, with its craftsmen and artisans. both for you and for the other members of your family, carpentry, sculpture, scenography, paper mache. I learned there, in the shacks, along 40 years. I started with the fantasies, then I designed floats. First we used small wheels, then they turned truck wheels until the truck chassis itself came with an engine at the base of the float”, he remembers.
The exhibition revisits this career path, but with a freedom that only independent creation usually allows. With a collection of antiques and a jaw-dropping collection of photographs, Marimba composes the mosaic that she envisions with her eyes that always see possibilities never imagined by us.. That's how this show was born “EMPTY CAN BE THE SEA”.
Marimba has lost count of the years she wakes up at dawn to look for relics at the antiques fair at Praça XV, in downtown Rio. There are the smells of dust, the abandonment of the original owners and what the poet Manoel de Barros called “Poetry Subject”. He knows all the scavengers and more than that: knows practically all the people at the fair, who already know when the find will please the artist. “There is a city that despises itself and that will end up in his precious hands to gain a new life”, attests Bianca Ramoneda.
“EMPTY CAN BE THE SEA” | Sergio Marimba, service ::
WHEN: 9 September to 30 October
AT WHERE: Portrait Cultural Space | Santa Cristina Street, 6, in glory
HOW MUCH: Free entry
