Mauricio Planel

Take a look at the beautiful work of this brazilian artist:

http://www.mauricioplanel.com

Celso Lima - Brazilian Fabric Artist

Take a look at the stunning fabric work from this brazilian artist, Celso Lima. He use the japanese shibori technique and african prints.
He also make his art with batik.
I love this prints!
You can find him here: http://www.celsolima.zip.net

Arthur Bispo do Rosario - Brasilianischer Künstler

Diese Werke sind von einem brasilianischen Künstler, Arthur Bispo do Rosário. Bispo do Rosário wurde 1938 in Rio de Janeiro geboren. Noch jung wurde er in einer psychiatischen Anstalt in Rio de Janeiro eingeliefert und verbrachte dort sein ganzes Leben. Zu seinem Glück versuchte Dra. Nise da Silveira zu dieser Zeit diesen Leuten mit psychiatischen Problemen eine menschlichere Behandlung zu ermöglichen und führte Kunstunterrichte für diese Patienten ein.

Bispo do Rosário sammelte alles was er in der Anstalt sammeln konnte und machte daraus Objekte. Diese drei Stoffarbeiten sind total bestickt. Der Stoff, vielleicht alte Vorhänge oder sein eigenes Bettlacken.

Wenn man über Assemblage und Found Object spricht muss man auch an die magischen Werke dieses armen Künstlers denken.

This works are from a brazilian artist named Arthur Bispo do Rosario. Rosario was born in 1938 in Rio de Janeiro. At the age of 20 he had a psychiatric disorder and must be interned in a hospital. He lived there at it whole life. Dra. Nise da Silveira, a brazilian psychiatrist, worked there and introduced art classes for the interns. This was his luck.

Bispo do Rosário collected all things on this hospital and made art objects from them. This three wallhangers are totally embroidered. The fabric maybe a curtain or an old linen.

Wenn we talk about assemblage or found object we must remember the stunning work fo this poor artist.

Brazilian Photograph

If you want to see some gorgeous photographs about Brazil and the great work of Marcos Piffer, please visit this home page:

http://www.marcospiffer. com.br

Callygraphy

If you like a modern way of callygraphy, try this blog:

http://lagrafia.blogspot.com

Francisco Brennand

Francisco Brennand was born 1927 in Pernambuco. His parents wants to him to study Jura, but he was an artist and he wents to Paris to study there. After his returns to Brazil he went to work in the family tiles factory. He has studied painting, but meanwhile he begans to work with clay. Step by step he has built a new factory with his work. It is like a temple with his magic figures, his surrealistic womens and birds and eggs.

The fabric still produces tiles to mantain this big museum of pottery. Some of the pieces are about 2m high.

Juraci Dórea

Recebi hoje um convite para uma exposição na Caixa Ecônomica de São Paulo. O nome do artista é Juraci Dórea. Ele é de Feira de Santana, Bahia, e começou seus trabalhos pintando com PVA e carvão. Hoje em dia ele usa tinta acrílica. O trabalho é comovente, e reflete o entorno do artista. As coisas simples e populares do Nordeste, o grafismo remete a um patchwork.

I received an invitation today from Caixa Econômica de São Paulo, a bank from the brazilian gouvernment. They have many art expositions during the year. And at this time the artist is Juraci Dórea. Juraci was born in Feira de Santana, a city in Bahia. His work has the simbols we can see there. The fishes, the birds, the cactus, the houses there. He began to work with PVA paint with chalk, but today his work is with acrylic. I love it, because it is like a patchwork.

Great collage work

On this site you can find a great collage work from a brazilian artist. His Name is Eduardo Recife and he lives in Minas Gerais.

There are also a some fonts goodies.

http://misprintedtype.com

Social art - Ricardo Amadasi

Amadasi is a friend of mine and he is a great artist. Wenn he works, he has always in mind the brazilian people, the poor people of this land. His art is a cry for the bad conditions of this people.

Amadasi was born in Argentina, but he lives and works in Brazil since 1974.

Amadasi ist eine brasilianischer Bildhauer. Seine Werke sind überdimensionel und haben immer soziale Gedanken. In seinen Werken spiegeln sich die sozialen Unhebenheiten Brasiliens, er spricht im Namen der Armen.

Er wurde in Argentinien geboren, aber lebt und arbeitet in Brasilien seit 1974.

Assemblage II - Dumas

Dumas é um artista, amigo meu, paraense, que tem todo um trabalho voltado para a assemblage. Ele passa os dias garimpando coisas velhas, antigas e todo tipo de object trouvé, até caixas de madeira de feiras, e faz objetos com estas coisas. Tenho apenas duas fotos de trabalhos dele, mas ele é extremamente criativo e a cada dia traz uma coisa nova. É uma pena que artistas, neste país, tenham que passar tanta necessidade.

Já recebeu prêmios e uma bolsa do governo do Pará, para fazer um trabalho sobre o comércio no mercado do Ver-o-peso. Não tenho fotos deste projeto para postar.

Dumas, is a friend of mine, from Pará State (north of Brazil) who makes a lot of assemblage. He search everyday for old and antique things, even wood cases from the supermarkt and transforms this found objects in art.

He had received many prices for his work.

The Gouvernment of Pará pay for him to make a whole art project about the Ver-o-peso Market in Belém do Pará, which is a popular market there, where you can buy everything, from fish to herbs and beverages. Unfortunatelly I don't have pics of this project, so I can posted only two objects of Dumas.

Artists don't have a good life in Brazil, so Dumas must produce a lot of work to sell because he lives from this money.

Assemblage - Farnese de Andrade

Este blog se refere, principalmente, à arte e mais ainda à arte da
colagem, dos objetos achados (found objects). Neste contexto, não
podemos deixar passar a oportunidade de falar um pouco a respeito de
Farnese de Andrade, tão pouco conhecido e reconhecido no Brasil, e
menos ainda no mundo.

A Editora Cosacnaify, uma das poucas que se interessa por arte neste
país editou dois livros, muito bem cuidados, sobre os objetos deste
artista.

Farnese faz a arte da assemblage. Assemblage é juntar objetos achados
e fazer destas peças soltas uma nova peça. Pode-se usar de tudo para
fazer este tipo de arte. Ele buscava seus objetos nas praias do
Rio de Janeiro, onde morava, apesar de ter nascido em Minas. Era uma
pessoa muito solitária e sofria de depressão.

Quase todo o seu trabalho está ligado à morte de um irmão, que parece
morreu afogado num rio. Este irmão é o fantasma que permeia a sua obra.

Outro expoente desta arte é Joseph Cornell, mas na minha opinião
a obra de Farnese é mais densa, introspectiva do que a de Cornell.

Nasceu em 1926 em Minas Gerais. Muda para o Rio de Janeiro em 1949,
quando vai morar com a mãe. Morre em 1996 aos 76 anos de idade.Fez
muitas exposições e recebeu premios, e mesmo assim é pouco conhecido
do grande público.

O Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, fez uma grande
retrospectiva de sua obra em 2005, ano em que também foram lançados
os livros pela Cosac Naify.


Farnese de Andrade is a brazilian artist, who mades assemblages. His work is more introspective and melancholic than the work of Josephh Cornell. Both are great assemblage artist, but in my opinion Farnese is more poetic in his work. He was born 1926 in Minas Gerais. 1949 he moved to Rio de Janeiro and he lived there with her mother. The assence of the work of Farnese is about his brother, who died when he was young.