Dora Longo Bahia: Ashes
Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima: Psycho
with Cão: live concert
Through April 8, 2017
Vermelho
Rua Minas Gerais, 350
01244010, São Paulo, SP
Brazil
Hours: Monday–Friday 10am–7pm,
Saturday 11am–5pm
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Concert:
Cão, Longo Bahia’s band with Bruno Palazzo, Maurício Ianês and Ricardo Carioba will perform live at the gallery as part of SP-arte.
April 4, 8:30pm
Film:
Psycho by Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima (Sala Antonio)
Screening: Monday–Friday 11am, 12:10pm, 1:20pm, 2:30pm, 3:40pm, 4:50pm, 6pm.
Saturday 11am, 12:10pm, 1:20pm, 2:30pm, 3:40pm.
Year: 2015. Duration: 65 minutes. Rating: All ages. Seating: 30.
Vermelho presents Ashes, a solo show by Dora Longo Bahia, and Psycho, a feature length film by Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima through April 8, 2017.
As part of the exhibition by Longo Bahia, Vermelho is also hosting “After the end of art,” a study group led and supervised by her and fellow professor and artist Renata Pedrosa. The group presents the occupation “not yet” in the gallery and count on the support of Epson.
In Vermelho’s main room, Longo Bahia shows the installation Ashes, built on the basis of ruins from parade floats used in Carnival celebrations.
Furthermore, the artist selected paintings from significant moments of her career and covered them with the concrete-gray paint that the current city government of São Paulo uses to cover urban art, graffiti and tagging around the city. Six paintings received a layer of paint, preventing the appreciation of the original works.
Longo Bahia covered the 120 square-meter façade of the gallery (photo) with the same concrete-gray and painted a giant clown.
For the series “Olimpiadas” (a play on the words Olympics and jokes) Longo Bahia collected the front pages of the three main newspapers of São Paulo during the 16 days of the OIympics and painted the image of a clown on each one. Longo Bahia comments on the event—concerning global and mass entertainment—during one of the biggest political crises in the country’s history.
“After the End of Art” is a group of students from different areas that meet weekly to discuss subjects concerning different disciplines such as philosophy, politics and architecture. The students have set up a printing press atelier in the gallery where they produce artworks on a daily basis. Dora has included earlier study groups in various exhibitions, including the 28th São Paulo Biennial.
“After the End of Art” is also included in the exhibition Paulista Avenue at MASP through May 28 where Longo Bahia is showing a new series of work.
Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima presents Psycho, a re-creation of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic based on images and sounds acquired at “royalty-free media” outlets. The film’s original material was substituted, creating a new work that bears a recognizable identity with the original film.
Besides raising questions in regard to originality, Psycho deals with questions related to symbolic articulation and construction. By showing the syntax used for researching images and sounds on a secondary screen located at the entrance of the screening room, Motta and Lima evidences how the editing process constructs meaning. The search for an image of a shower or a motel sign might not be connected to Alfred Hitchcock’s film, the editing weaves a relation between the parts, embodying a recognizable whole.
