Reale ed Immaginario

Adri Volpi
Daniel Fontoura
Danielle Taparelli
Dircéa Mountfort
Eusanete Sant'Anna
Fernanda Fernandes
Gisa Machado
Karina Belle
Lafaiete Papaiano
Máximo Hernández
Otoni Gali Rosa
Patricia Lopes
Rafa Vieira
Renata Andréa
Calle del Manganer, 4516 (Cannaregio - Venezia)
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Supporto Culturale:
Realizzazione:
Helen H. Gnocchi
Console Onorario
del Brasile a Venezia
Giurisdizione del Veneto
Curatore:
Tânia Sciacco

Exhibition "Reale ed Immaginario"
With the intent of promoting the artistic exchange, creating connections with the Italian culture, we
present the exhibition "Reale ed Immaginario" (Real and Imaginary).
Showing works by Brazilian artists in diverse mediums (photographs, paintings and sculptures) and
styles, expressing the richness of their creativity, exploring the imaginary and the reality in their
creations, searching their lives, histories, legends and dreams for inspiration.
The Project has its central axis in encouraging artists to work with the tenuous limits between the Real
and the Imaginary, being able to dive into this wide spectrum of possibilities through a more realistic and
Aristotelian or idealized and Platonic approach.
And within this broad and dense context, try to develop visual research that includes things celebrated in
Brazil, focusing on its political and cultural roots; the links between the country and Italy; or archetypal
concepts about the meaning of human existence, the planet Earth itself and the universe."
Project created by Sciacco Studio.
Curator: Tânia Sciacco
Art Critic: Oscar D'Ambrósio
Cultural Support: Helen H. Gnocchi, Honorary Brazilian Consul in Venice
Location:Calle del Manganer, 4516 (Cannaregio - Venezia)
Opening Night: July 1st from 7 to 9pm
Exhibition: until July 7th - from 2 to 7 pm and by appointment
Artists :
Adri Volpi, Daniel Fontoura, Danielle Taparelli,
Dircéa Mountfort, Gisa Machado, Eusanete Sant'Anna,
Fernanda Fernandes, Karina Belle, Lafaiete Papaiano,
Máximo Hernández, Otoni Gali Rosa, Patricia Lopes,
Rafa Vieira, Renata Andréa.

When the Real meets the Imaginary – and vice versa
Reality and imagination, as well as everyday life and fantasy, can be brought together under a
perspective that discusses paradigms between science, art, myths, and nature. From all these
perspectives, it becomes mandatory to think about the existing transformations of the planet, society, and
individuals in the fields of the most diverse sciences, arts, and myths of our time.
From a Brazilian perspective, the country celebrating 200 years of independent history in 2022, and with
the Semana de Arte Moderna, a landmark in national art, has seen its centenary revisited in several
ways. These are facets of a country in the midst of a process of reflection on its political and cultural
identity.
Both the proposals of the two Venice Biennale (Arts - The Milk of Dreams - this year 2022 and
Architecture - How can we live together in 2021) and the national events meet in the search for a dream
of freedom and social justice that establishes links between the two sides of the Atlantic, that is, between
Italy and Brazil, countries with many connections.
Adding to this panorama, after the long period of the pandemic, reflecting on the above issues includes
understanding how the visual arts dialogue with other expressions, such as literature and music, all of
which are very important to ensure the mental health of the mental population. Especially in the main
periods of social isolation.
In the Exhibition presented in Venice, each artist participate with two works and, in short, the show has
its central axis in encouraging artists to work with the tenuous limits between the real and the imaginary,
being able to dive into this wide spectrum of possibilities through a more realistic and Aristotelian or
idealized and Platonic approach.
Within this broad and dense context, it is possible to develop visual research that includes the two main
dates celebrated in 2022 in Brazil, focusing on its political and cultural roots; the cultural links between
the country and Italy; or archetypal concepts about the meaning of human existence, the planet Earth
itself and the universe.

Adri Volpi
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary aspects, for
these works?
The creative freedom that this year's Bienal theme presented. Dreams are a
free field and fertile ground, where there are no borders.
What references, locations, and materials, were used? Venice itself and its
symbols.
I worked with well-diluted acrylic paint, pens, and pencils.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic Eyes,
Eyes,wings, and stars, refer to the Lion of Venice, a bronze statue installed on top
of a column in the Piazzetta, a space adjacent to St. artist's works. They constitute
visual representations full of meanings, being essential to establish a peculiar
universe, characterized by the creation of a fantastic atmosphere. The potential of
observing what exists differently, flying through the imagination, and shining in
space synthesize a plastic production in which what escapes the traditionally
established reality is in the foreground, establishing a field in which the dreamlike
gently predominates.

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Adri Volpi

Adri Volpi was born in Santa Catarina,
She lives and works in Santa Catarina, PR, Brazil
Adri Volpi

Daniel Fontoura
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary
aspects, for these works?
The theme fits a lot with what I've been creating since the
beginning of my career. I seek to place the observer in the midst of a game
of perceptions between what is “real” and what is not within the photograph,
causing a reflection on the very illusory nature of the photographic image.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
One of the works was created in New York, the city where for the first time
an artist suggested that I should show my photographs, and the other is in
Venice, a place that I first visited right after my solo exhibition in Lisbon, in
2009. Both are digital photographs mounted in a backlight box, highlighting
the colors and contrasts between their layers. Everything is "real", it was
there when I photographed it, but some parts look more real than others.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
One of the most fascinating elements in the creative process is the ability to
surprise the audience. Art, as the works of this artist show, does not follow the
path of the expected and the established, but the path of the unknown. The
images created by the photographer are proposals to look at the world under new
prisms. There is a lot of playfulness and love for research as a way to develop a
poetics of questions and to present links that motivate us to glimpse what is
around us under renewed perspectives.

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Daniel Fontoura

Daniel Fontoura was born in São Paulo.
He lives and works in São Paulo, SP Brazil.
Daniel Fontoura

Danielle Taparelli
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or
Imaginary aspects, for these works?
My theme is related to time. I think time passes very
quickly and what remains are our fragmented feelings, each part of our
passage brings us different emotions. In these works, I used colors and fluid
lines to represent the construction of these feelings.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
Acrylic paint.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
Movement and color are essential in the artist's aesthetic. She
manages, through the tonalities, to establish a poetics of
movement. In a way, there is an ambiguity because although it
visually brings up issues related to the passage of time, each
image is a way of freezing the moment. In this way, it captures
the observer's gaze and takes it to new dimensions governed
by the dialogue between what is seen and what is imagined as
each creation brings in itself suggestions of what the next
works may present.

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Danielle Taparelli

Tempo
Danielle Taparelli was born in São Paulo.
She lives and works in São Paulo, SP Brazil.
Danielle Taparelli

Dircéa Mountfort
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary
aspects, for these works?
Although living in the capital, I had a childhood and
adolescence very connected to nature. When I was a teenager I lived very
close to Serra do Curral where I would go for a walk every weekend. I lived in
several states of the country and saw nature being destroyed in all of them. I
realized the need to make people aware of the importance of preservation
even for the preservation of human life. Serra do Curral is disfigured.
The Atlantic Forest is disappearing. This has to stop. That's my motivation:
preserving is necessary. My inspiration is always nature and due to the size
I decided to focus on a small point - a flower.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
One of the flowers is little known for being from the Amazon region - the
Couroupita. The Hibiscus, although not originally from Brazil, is widely
cultivated in the country.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
The observation of nature, the starting point of an artist is to seize it to capture the
intensities they can reach. There is a process of poetic construction of the images
that the composition is essential as a way of representing what you see, using its
technique, continuously improved, to conceive the pictorial space as a place of
discussion of transparencies and expression of an affectionate look on leaves and
flowers.

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Dircéa Mountfort

Dircéa Mountfort was born in
She lives and works in São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Dircéa Mountfort

Eusanete Sant'Anna
A professional plastic artist, registered with the Federal District
Culture Council, she participates in the Candango Association ofVisual Artists of the
DF – ACAV.
She started in the visual arts in 1999, with porcelain painting.
Having the artist Lourenço de Bem as her master, she is the owner of a
contemporary style, using abstractionist and abstract figurative themes, and her
most-used artistic technique is acrylic on canvas and mixed media. She participated
in several collective and individual exhibitions of painting and sculpture, in Brazil
and abroad, winning numerous awards, including Gold
Medals in Brazil, in 2006 and 2008; Silver in Edinburgh, Scotland; and Bronze in
Madrid, Spain, in 2006. The artist defines her work: “I really like what I do, because,
from abstraction, nature, colors, and shapes, I manage to stimulate
the spectator’s imagination, and I can lead him to a world of dreams”
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
Nature is the starting point of a visual work characterized by the research on the
focused theme and, mainly, on the desired visual resources. The constant
improvement in the use of colors and the effects of lights and shadows, as well as
composition, provide a dip in tonalities that allows the development of a
poetics based both on the proposed figurations and on their internal constructions
and on the process of turning art into a creative interpretation. of the world

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Eusanete Sant'Anna

Eusanete Sant'Anna was born in Linhares, ES
She lives and works in Brasilia.
Eusanete Sant'Anna

Fernanda Fernandes
What do the works presented in the exhibition have of Real
and Imaginary?
The constant search for sensory experiences led me on a journey to
Chapada dos Veadeiros, where the possibilities of connecting with land and
water are endless. And the waterfalls of this place played an important role in
this quest. It was a meeting of many waters. A torrent that invaded, filled and
flowed to open paths.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
The place I photographed is Chapada dos Veadeiros, more specifically
Quilombo Kalunga, in Cavalcante. The printing material was Fine Art paper,
mounted in Acrylic with a 10cm old copper frame to look like a lightbox.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
The images obtained in Chapada dos Veadeiros, in the State
of Goiás, reflect on the passage of time. The currents and
torrents of water bring a thought about the flow of existence,
which flows through our fingers with intensity. The photographs
also generate a perception of permanence and impermanence
in a perspective that leads to attentively observing nature and
learning from it. In this aspect, the artist motivates a constant
appreciation of art and life.

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Fernanda Fernandes

Torrente
Fernanda Fernandes was born in Piracicaba, SP
She lives and works in São Paulo.
Fernanda Fernandes

Gisa Machado
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or
Imaginary aspects, for these works?
Nature is an inexhaustible source that takes me to unimaginable levels to
make my creation process real.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
Mandalas are recurring elements in my work, using
acrylic on canvas.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
Colors and shapes are the raw material of the visual work
proposed by the artist. Like mandalas that create a
process of meditation and concentration. In this way, each
individual can find the peace necessary for their balance.
The differences used can determine the determination to
reach a universe by society and integrate each person

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Gisa Machado

Gisa Machado was born in Minas Gerais.
She lives and works in Rio de Janeiro since 1968.
Gisa Machado

Karina Belle
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary aspects, for
these works?
Nature, environmental issues, and our connection with the whole.
I usually say that my inspiration comes from sounds. The colors I use have a
lot of influence on the songs I'm listening to at the time of creation. As if it
were something synesthetic.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
Photographic and photo editing materials.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
An essential element in the artist's poetics lies in the way she creates a lyrical
permanent evocation of nature. Her work uses colors, shapes, and transparencies
to lead the viewer on an internal journey. It is a walk that uses delicacy. This,
however, does not detract from its intensity. On the contrary, the visual proposal
gains strength when understood as an invitation to see, in the constructed work, a
plastic portal that can refer to unknown visceral worlds and, therefore, both
frightening and attractive.

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KARINA BELLE was born in Passa-Quatro, MG
She lives and works in Goiania, GO, Brazil.
Karina Belle

Lafaiete Papaiano
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary aspects, for these works?
Nowadays, everything that is posted on social networks is what people imagine what they want to be or
where they want to be and the main tool for entering the virtual world/metaverse, is the cell phone,
behind the screen we are all the same, sharing the same joys, sorrows, pains, wishes and desires, that
is, we are only human. In "Alice in Wonderland": the Red Queen is the dark side of social networks,
where she is also the jailer of those who is canceled or excluded; Alice is the human representation
within the imagination; The White Queen and the Hatter, represent the good side of imagination within
social networks. The masks and the black clothes represent all those who are behind the cell phone
screen, accessing social networks and showing what people want to be, and when they enter the
metaverse, they basically transform into a binary language, losing all their individuality and elements,
which make them human. From that, I bring Alice's characters, as the ideal to be achieved in the
Metaverse, in the virtual world, where everyone gives up their individuality, to transform themselves into
a simple computer language, where its representation is basically 0 and 1. The big criticism within this is
the fact that everyone today presents themselves against social binarity, of gender, of choices, of
sexuality, basically, of everything that is around us, but surrenders to a machine, submitting to be able to
show how happy they are or how well they are, to be reduced to 0 and 1, to a binary language, which
only contemplates right and wrong, good and evil, but does not understand maybe, the can be? who
knows? basically, it has no middle ground. In a world where everyone seeks gray, the language that
makes everyone happy is black and white.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
The symbolic universe of “Alice in Wonderland”, by Lewis Carroll, is the starting point to discuss how the
boundaries between what you are and what you want to be are very present, for example, in social
networks. Faced with a binary society, characterized by permanent choices between 0 and 1, art is a
complex world of multiple questions that allows diving into the density of a gray universe, which escapes
dualities and proposes broader thinking of the tenuous boundaries between existing and appearing.

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Lafaiete Papaiano

Alice e a Corte do Metaverso.
Lafaiete Papaiano was born in São Paulo.
He lives and works in São Paulo, SP Brazil.
Lafaiete Papaiano

Máximo Hernández
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary aspects, for
these works?
The first thought was to create a “collage” of real images that would form a
being or a local imaginary.
But the inspiration came with a “discovery” that in my collection there are
images, mainly of real animals, that almost look like they came out of a fiction
film.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
I looked in my collection for these real animals but they look like dreams or
fiction. I found it in the Amazon and mainly in Madagascar, which, for being
an isolated island for millennia, had a very different and curious evolution of
the fauna. His animals are sometimes so different that I've chosen not to
show some of them, because they would hardly be recognized in the works.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
The dialogue between reality and fiction makes the photographs present a
permanent exercise of attention to the gaze. Each image refers to a complex and
meticulous process that includes the patience to look for what you want, the
registration in the most technically adequate way possible, and the finalization to
select the best shots and adjust them so that they are worthy of being shown in
terms of framing and luminosity. Thus, the artist builds his world of beings that, due
to their intensity, although real, seem imaginary.

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Máximo Hernández

Máximo Hernández was born in Béjar, Espanha.
He lives and works in São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Máximo Hernández

Otoni Gali Rosa
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary aspects, for
these works?
The curiosity to rummage through the drawers of memory about what exists
there, and if, in memory, what is real and what is imaginary... it is difficult to
know.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
The references searched in memory are infinite, also the places, also the
time. As for the materials used, I have already commented, and I can
summarize; the ones I have on hand.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
Imaginary women populate the artist's mind and take on different forms. There are
no limits on poses, colors, shades, or movements. Art takes place in the
permanent research of space as a place where there are no limits. The only
restriction is on each one's ability to create. The visual results presented can be
considered, from this perspective, as a journey through the female body and the
ability to dream. Each being that appears leads, therefore, to an infinite and fruitful
wandering through fantasy, where everything is allowed.

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Otoni Gali Rosa

Otoni Gali Rosa was Born in Olimpia, SP
He lives and works in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Otoni Gali Rosa

Patricia Lopes
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary aspects, for these works?
I sought to represent, through symbols, the meanings of dreams, fears, realities,
dimensions, and the collective imagination of the world I lived and live in. From the
light and shadow obtained with the backlight, the technique inspired me again, as I
used in the creation of the series “Windows of the Soul”, to propose to the viewer
interaction and compositional possibilities through the opening and closing of two
lateral sheets in each of the works.
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
My production reflects and translates a constant need that I feel to extrapolate the
physical limitations that I represent through lines and overlapping layers in various
materials. Geometrism and grid are compositional elements that reinforce my constant
search for antithesis through meanings such as open x close, fasten x release,
geometric x organic, among others. The montage and materiality of the works,
especially the recent installations, are very important in my creative process as they
complete and also reinforce my composition and concept.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
There is in the artist's works the dimension of an internal journey.
The images created present a symbolic aspect that is above the simple representation of the
world that we consider real.
Her creations refer to iconic archetypes in which a heart translates the feeling of a heartbeat
that connects each of us to the universe. From this perspective, individual and collective
existential journeys are mixed by the visual creator's ability to establish mysterious and
inquiring atmospheres.

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Patricia Lopes
“Present Life x Past Memory” (2022)
Backlight with acrylic sheets with acrylic paint and film
50 x 50 x 10 cm (each)

Patricia Lopes was born in Londrina, PR.
She lives and works in Londrina, PR, Brazil.
Patricia Lopes

Rafa Vieira
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary aspects, for
these works?
My inspiration has been a reflection of innovation for a long time, I want to
make people admire what is strange, and what is against traditional art, until
they start to understand and appreciate what is crooked or out of concept!
What references, locations, and materials, were used?
The steel of our daily lives, cutlery, and colors, lots of colors!
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
The free search for different materials and the way of rearranging them in space are
differentiating characteristics of this artist's visual production. Not being limited in
terms of supports or objects to be worked on is a strong connection with
contemporaneity, in which the reuse and recycling of materials are increasingly
present as an aesthetic proposal. Furthermore, conceiving art itself as a way of
relating to society and the world results in visualities that yearn for creative and coparticipatory
dialogue with the observer.

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Rafa Vieira

Rafa Vieira was born in Santa Rosa, RS.
He lives and works in São Borja, RS.
Rafa Vieira

Renata Andréa
What was your inspiration, starting from the Real and/or Imaginary aspects, for
these works?
Human and non-human? How can we live together? How is this place we live
in? I wondered if it is possible to live in a place where love for all beings is
something real, a place where there are no superior beings, a healthy
environment where we all live in respect and harmony. From there, I created
these two fantastic & realistic characters that, for me, are symbols of this
union between different beings.
What references, places, and materials, were used?
In the pieces presented here, paper comes in the form of dough and in sheets
previously used to filter a coffee (for me synonymous with coziness). I used
this material to create fantastic beings that convey respect and care for each
other. The literature present in children's books, stories, and folk series
inhabited my thoughts throughout the creation process.
Text by Oscar D'Ambrosio - AICA Art Critic
There is a mythological perspective in the poetics of this artist. Her creations are
based on fantastical narratives in which the characters are more than they seem.
They keep ancestral secrets that pass between generations through the messages
they bring about the importance of the past, the need to make choices in the
present, and the ability to build the future. There is, in a way, an understanding that
hope, for example, manifests itself through the potential of art commenting and
questioning what we call reality.

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Renata Andréa

Mulher coelha
Renata Andréa was born in Belo Horizonte, MG.
She lives and works in Contagem, MG, Brazil
Renata Andréa

Supporto Culturale:
Helen H. Gnocchi
Console Onorario
del Brasile a Venezia
Giurisdizione del Veneto
Curatore:
Tânia Sciacco
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