Criticism, power and the public sphere: new arrangements in the light of the present
The purpose of the presentation is to investigate some transformations that occurred in the sphere of Brazilian art criticism in the 21st century, especially with regard to the relationship between criticism, power and the public sphere. For this, the focus will be on the analysis of the case involving the exhibition “Histórias Brasileiras”, held at […]
Edinizio Ribeiro Primo’s Black Tropicália
This work aims to analyze the available work of Edinízio Ribeiro Primo and his artistic career, so that he can be included his name in research on the history of art produced by black artists in Brazil, thus avoiding its erasure. For this, it will be necessary to investigate the exclusion of black artists in […]
Egyptian musicians at the D. Thereza Christina Maria
This work will analyze four photographs from the Thereza Christina collection, consequently previously belonging to the personal archive of emperor D. Pedro II, which represent Egyptian musicians. These images are presented in an album produced by the Italian photographer Luigi Fiorillo which, mostly, contain panoramic views of Egypt. However, the first few pages of the […]
Mário Navarro da Costa and Rodolfo Pinto do Couto between Portugal and Brazil: articulations for the promotion of Brazilian art in Portugal
From the colony of Portugal to independent Brazil, the relations between the two countries are historical and full of aspects for analysis. Immersed in this dynamic are two characters currently analyzed in my PhD in Art History at PPGHA-Unifesp. He is the Brazilian painter and diplomat Mário Navarro da Costa (1883-1931) and the Portuguese sculptor […]
Art, Body, and Power: The Construction of Body Politics of Louis XIV (1648-1715) and Urban VIII (1568-1644)
This research project analyzes how the works of Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) – premier peintre du roi and perhaps the most important figure in the artistic métier during the government of Louis XIV – helped construct an image of the monarch as body politic or body of power. This image presented the king as the […]
Italy and Brasília, the “New City, Synthesis of the Arts”: the Italian art critics at the Extraordinary International Congress of Art Critics of 1959
The Extraordinary International Congress of Art Critics of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA )happened between September 17 and September 25, 1959. It was the first ever AICA congress held on the American continent. It took place in São Paulo (which also hosted the V São Paulo Biennale from September through December of that […]
Waters of Kalunga: sea and memory in Aline Motta’s, Rosana Paulino’s and Grada Kilomba’s artworks
This project focuses on the memories of the colonial past and the echoes in contemporaneity, or what we call coloniality (QUIJANO, 2005; MIGNOLO, 2010). We intend to reflect on how these memories are evoked and presented in the artworks of contemporary artists from the Global South. In this project, we select the Brazilian artists Rosana […]
For the Sake of God, Gold, and Science: Photographic Appropriation in Rosana Paulino’s ¿História Natural?
Despite the consensus among scholars that Rosana Paulino’s works are seminal to Brazilian contemporary art and the boost in the research dedicated to her over the past decade, many aspects of her production still need addressing. For instance, there is little scholarship on how she has appropriated photographs representing Black enslaved individuals in Brazil, even […]
PV Dias’ Digital Amazon
The proposed research is a qualitative analysis and critical reading from the works of the artist Paulo Vitor Dias, or PV Dias as he identifies himself on the internet. We will start from an unstructured interview carried out with the artist in 2022, as well as the portfolio provided by him, to reflect on his […]
Images, Institutions and Cross-Cultural Systems: Describing and Visualizing “The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas” (1634)
The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas is a stunning eight-part woodblock print of enormous scale issued in 1634 by the Imperial Grand Secretariat in the Chongzhen era of the Ming dynasty. The Atlas represents the culmination of collaborative research that Jesuit and Ming astronomers carried out between 1629-1634 in Beijing. As such, the story it recounts […]
