My paper will discuss the geopolitical and cultural context of the Extraordinary Congress of AICA held in Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in 1959 as a starting point of reflection. In 1959, the second documenta was opened, the Biennial of São Paulo was put on view in a new building of Oscar Niemeyer, ... Read more...
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2017.9 | 3 Sessions on Postwar modernity | Universidade de Brasília
Lecture series at the Universidade de Brasília on current research topics in Brazilian-German art of the post-war era. September 18-19, 2017 Organized by Prof. Dr. Marcelo Mari Session 1, Sept 18 – Art: Exhibition of Brazilian Artists at Haus der Kunst in Munich 1959 The session will shed light on the contexts in which Brazilian ... Read more...
2017.3 | Max Bense / Aloisio Magalhães, Germany 1969
University of Geneva, invited lecture 15.3.2017 Max Bense / Aloisio Magalhães, Germany 1969 The Transcultural and Popular Context of “History of a Sign” If the Modernist impulse requires new approaches, then many argue that highlighting the networks of artistic exchange is one way of reactualizing the Modernist paradigm. In 1969, Brazilian artist and designer Aloisio ... Read more...
2016.6 | Museum global? | Düsseldorf
2.6.2016 Schmela-Haus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfahlen, Düsseldorf Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe “Museum Global?” “Politische Verflechtungen im brasilianisch-deutschen Kulturaustausch und ihre Bedeutung für eine Revision der deutschen Kunstgeschichte der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit” Read more...
2014 – | Conceptions of Modernity | Brazilian Constructivism
Alfredo VOLPI, http://www.democrart.com.br/aboutart/artista/alfredo-volpi/ Formation and Heritage of the Brazilian Constructivism and Neoconcretismo in the Transcultural Contexts of West German Conceptions of Modernity in the 1950s and 1960s The focus of the research project is the investigation into the development of post war modernism in the diplomatic context of the young German Federal Republic considering the ... Read more...