New Year, New Art
If blogging is a literary genre, this is a retrospective genre. A blog author needs not to make a yearly summary: Whatever has been written is there as memory of the past and could remain current. Seeing that nostalgy is intrinsic to the genre, a blogger needs not to resort to revisionist discourse, so common at this time of the year.
Seeing that a blog article is born aiming at becoming a memory, in the best case scenario its contents take us to things that are yet to happen or that have just happened and came unnoticed.
Thus, here are my exhibition suggestions for the new year.
To visit in São Paulo, in this order: O que não é floresta é prisão política (That which Is Not Forest is Political Prison) at Reocupa gallery (there are many different actions scheduled: keep your eye on the Ocupação 9 de Julho’s media); Susan Meiselas: Mediações (Susan Meiselas: Mediations) at IMS; Murakami por Murakami (Murakami by Murakami) at Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Fernanda Gomes at Pinacoteca; Chiraru Shiota – Linhas da vida (ChiaruShiota—Life Lines) at CCBB-SP.
To visit in Rio de Janeiro: Iran do Espírito Santo – Reflexivos (Iran do Espírito Santo—Reflectives) at Centro Cultural Oi Futuro; Carlos Vergara – Prospectiva (Carlos Vergara—Prospective) at MAM; Marc Ferrez: Território e imagem (Marc Ferrez: Territories & Image) at IMS.
The Bean, by Anish Kapoor. Photo: Lance Anderson, Unsplash.
To visit in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state: New works and reopened galleries at Instituto Inhotim.
In 2020, the São Paulo Biennial will happen. Contemporary art classes are a good idea. Get ready!
Furthermore, there will be a trip to Chicago including visits to the Art Institute, the best museum in the world according to visitors, and to the legacies of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, architects who helped to make Chicago such a wonderful city. Sign up to receive my newsletter and to get all the latest info.
Happy holidays and a 2020 full of disposition to learn. Merry art to all!