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This Saturday, 7 August, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR) inaugurates “YORÙBÁIANO”, the first solo exhibition of our represented artist Ayrson Heráclito at the Rio de Janeiro-based museum. Curated by Marcelo Campos and Amanda Bonan, the exhibition presents an important part of Heráclito’s production over the last 25 years and occupies two galleries in the museum’s […]
The 22nd Bienal de Arte Paiz has been opened to the public in Guatemala City and Antiqua Guatyemala. This edition brings a curatorial proposal that seeks to investigate issues around violence, interculturality and contemporary and ancestral history, establishing connections between art and the Latin American diverse context. Entitled “Lost. In between. Together“, it is curated […]
Represented by Portas Vilaseca Galeria, artist Ayrson Heráclito is one of the highlights of the second volume of “Brazilian Interviews“, a publication that follows a series of conversations with artists, anthropologists, musicians and other thinkers Brazilians led by Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. The book, published by Editora Cobogó, brings another 30 interviews that deal […]
Our represented artists Ayrson Heráclito and Mulambö take part in an exhibition, which embodies the project “Sal 60“, a multimedia platform looking over the aesthetic and narrative innovations that the samba school Academicos do Salgueiro achieved with Arlindo Rodrigues, Fernando Pamplona and Nilton Sá from 1960 to 1971 – a period known as “Salgueiro’s Revolution”, when […]
The Municipality of Salvador, through the Gregório de Mattos Foundation, inaugurated the first stage of the project “RUA – Roteiro Urbano de Arte” (Urban Map of Art), which transformed the Comércio neighbourhood into an open-air gallery, displaying works, installations and interventions made by 8 contemporary visual artists. Curated by Daniel Rangel, the idea is to […]
Ongoing at Carpintaria (Rua Jardim Botânico, 971), the group show “Escrito no Corpo” proposes a dialogue between the work of young and established artists with the collection of Abdias Nascimento’s Teatro Experimental do Negro. Curated by Keyna Eleison and Victor Gorgulho, the idea is to reflect on the narrative dimension of the body through different […]
From October 5 to November 5, Videobrasil’s online platform features “Sacudimentos“, Ayrson Heráclito’s first virtual exhibition, which brings together 10 audiovisual works produced by the artist between 2004 and 2018, alongside a new video introduction. According to Solange Farkas, director of the institution and also curator of the show, “Sacudimentos highlights the trajectory of an […]
Arriving today another publication in our virtual library! Take a look at “Ayrson Heráclito“, a special catalogue published by Blau Projects in 2017, following the artist’s participation at the 57th Venice Biennale – “Viva Arte Viva” – curated by Christine Macel. With extensive visual documentation, highlighting Heraclito’s trajectory, the publication also includes details of the works […]
Continuing the cycle #1 of our ARTE+CARE program, we present this week a set of new engravings on paper by artist Ayrson Heráclito. Each of the four engravings included in this series of multiples represents a leaf of paper (or “folium”) of a handwritten notebook on the history of slavery that the artist has been […]