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Patrício Farias. Noteworthy is that the majority of these artists continued<br />

intense production into the 2000s; it can be observed however, that<br />

the collection has few works to represent this important period, when<br />

contemporary art sought to impose itself in the local art scene, during a<br />

time of difficult reception.<br />

The third group corresponds to a more complex period, where<br />

the collection opens on multiple fronts. I highlight the work of Alfredo<br />

Nicolaiewsky, Andressa Cantergiani, André Severo and Maria Helena<br />

Bernades (Archive Areal), Bruno Borne, Carla Borba, Clóvis Dariano,<br />

Denise Gadelha, Eduardo Haesbaert, Eduardo Kac, Elaine Tedesco, Élle<br />

de Bernardini, Gisela Waetge, Gelson Radaelli, Gil Vicente, Gonzalo Mezza,<br />

Helio Fervenza, Ío (Laura Cattani and Munir Klamt), Jorge Menna Barreto,<br />

León Ferrari, Lucia Koch, Maristela Salvatori, Nelson Leirner, Paulo Nazareth,<br />

Rafael Pagatini, Regina Silveira, Rodrigo Braga, Rommulo Vieira Conceição,<br />

Romy Pocztaruk, Rochelle Costi, Rosângela Rennó, Sandra Rey, Sandro Ka,<br />

Teresa Poester, Téti Waldraff, Túlio Pinto, Xadalu Tupã Jekupé, Yuri Firmeza<br />

and Walmor Corrêa. The fact this period is more representative within the<br />

collection demonstrates the consolidation of contemporary art and its<br />

strength within the local panorama.<br />

The fourth group, occupying a room specially dedicated to video art<br />

production, enjoys the participation of Alberto Semeler, Alex Topini, Ana<br />

Norogrando, Claudia Paim, Dirnei Prates, Luis Roque, Isabel Ramil, Marina<br />

Camargo, Marion Velasco, Nelton Pellenz, Paulo Bruscky and Shirley Paes<br />

Leme. This production, almost all from the 2000s, demonstrates how this<br />

new artistic modality has strengthened locally in recent times, showing<br />

maturity, power and diversity.<br />

After making this difficult selection and aware of its limitations, I<br />

sought to break the temporal organization of the groups, establishing<br />

dynamics to interconnect works based on the dialogues established<br />

between them. This is a proposal to view the wide and diverse collection<br />

of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rio Grande do Sul through a lens<br />

highlighting the fundamental aspects of the collection’s profile, works<br />

which significantly changed perspectives in artistic production through<br />

strategies, resources, material, form or content. These works break with<br />

the prevailing modernist visualities, creating cracks in the local art system,<br />

in its conservative tendencies. When suggesting proximity between the<br />

works presented, the viewer is challenged to discover relationships and to<br />

create their own path to enjoyment, thinking about works in the context<br />

of their time of production, their boldness, the novelties they introduced.<br />

Hopefully they will then seek more information about the works and<br />

artists of this collection; the internet is at our fingertips to bring us closer<br />

to knowledge and to enrich our lives.<br />

Within the exhibition, as well as the collection, one can observe the<br />

presence of new artistic categories such as installations; these create<br />

spaces of physical interaction with spectators, allowing them to circulate<br />

around and within works. Some works, while not considered installations<br />

in the strictest sense of the term, change the perception of environments,<br />

expanding them in various ways. In this search for new relationships, they<br />

update three-dimensional practices with visual and sensory interferences<br />

involving the space and its visitors.<br />

Records of these performances, generally photographic or video,<br />

preserve the memory of these activities/events, ephemeral and fluid,<br />

providing a last vestige of the radicality of performance moments. Artist’s<br />

books are represented in the exhibition as witness to their important place<br />

in the collection of this institution, in addition to productions involving<br />

digital technologies marking the emergence of these practices in the local<br />

artistic milieu. There is also the archive, a set of documents very significant<br />

in the understanding of contemporary art.<br />

It draws attention to the ways in which some works dialogue with<br />

the landscape, establishing different possibilities in thinking about our<br />

relationship with our surroundings, whether in the approach to natural<br />

or urban visualities. These new approaches leave the contemplative<br />

character of the landscape tradition to offer more poetic and thoughtprovoking<br />

views of a scene, proposing fragmentations, distortions and<br />

other approaches, as if the artist directed our gaze through unknown<br />

places in our own surroundings.<br />

Certain works investigate non-hegemonic universes, such as the<br />

feminine, the black, the indigenous or the marginal, seeking to establish<br />

in the art system criticism and debate about gender, ethnicities and<br />

conflicting social relations. The body is a strong presence, placing<br />

repressed aspects of sexuality on the agenda. The relationship of all these<br />

issues has a place in the collection as a whole.<br />

It can be noted, in some cases, that strangeness is what captures<br />

the viewer’s attention, generating questions, either by incorporating<br />

unconventional objects and materials or signals of mass culture, or just<br />

by creating unusual relationships between objects we are exposed to on<br />

a daily basis. Sensory and experiential issues are a strong trend within<br />

the collection, representing the weight of this approach in contemporary<br />

artistic practice in Rio Grande do Sul.<br />

The variety of languages and approaches present in this exhibition<br />

expresses the complexity and diversity of contemporary artistic production<br />

present in the <strong>MACRS</strong> collection. The works selected for this exhibition<br />

highlight some of the aspects of it’s profile, which, due to its pluralist and<br />

inclusive policy, are both problematic and rich for more specific analysis<br />

and study. I attempted to highlight the ways in which they break with<br />

the modernist visuality, until recently dominant, creating fissures in the<br />

ecosystem of local art and acting as entrances to the contemporary in<br />

this very conservative panorama. Each of them, in their strategies, in their<br />

material, formal or content resources, marks some change in perspective<br />

in artistic production. As a whole, the exhibition is an invitation to<br />

reflection and, to accept this invitation, it is necessary to be open to the<br />

new experiences it brings us.<br />

1<br />

I have been studying art systems since 1983 and in 1990, developed<br />

this concept for my doctorate thesis, available at: https://www.ufrgs.br/<br />

artereflexoes/site/publicações/tese/<br />

2<br />

Enlightenment explanations seeking to explain the process in an<br />

evolutionary way are closed, partial views of the western world.<br />

3<br />

Carlos Asp, Carlos Pasquetti, Clóvis Dariano, Mara Álvares, Telmo Lanes<br />

and Vera Chaves Barcellos were part of this group.<br />

4<br />

Composed of Mário Röhnelt, Milton Kurtz, Júlio Viega e Paulo Haeser.<br />

5<br />

Vera Chaves, Telmo Lanes, Mário Röhnelt, Milton Kurtz, Júlio Viega,<br />

Paulo Haeser, Carlos Wladimirsky, Karin Lambrecht, Ana Torrano, Simone<br />

Michelin Basso, Regina Coeli and Heloisa Schneiders da Silva participated<br />

in the centre.<br />

6<br />

Amongst those young people: Dione Veiga Vieira, Élida Tessler, Fernando<br />

Limberger, Lia Menna Barreto, Luiza Meyer, and Maria Lúcia Cattani.<br />

7<br />

According to Nei Vargas da Rosa, in his doctoral research on contemporary<br />

art collectors in Brazil (still unpublished), approximately 21% of the<br />

interviewees started their collections in the 1980s.<br />

8<br />

acervomacrs.com<br />

9<br />

Caroline Ferreira, Luiz Felipe Schulte, Quevedo, Nina Sanmartin, Malena<br />

Mendes, Mirele Pacheco and Kailã Isaias.<br />

10<br />

This award is intended specifically for the acquisition of works for<br />

museological institutions. <strong>MACRS</strong> twice received resources from this fund,<br />

first in 2010/12 and second in 2013/14.<br />

11<br />

This numerical data is derived from the current general catalogue of<br />

<strong>MACRS</strong> works, compiled by the research group responsible for curating the<br />

exhibit 47% Female Artists of the <strong>MACRS</strong> Collection (Cristina Barros, Marina<br />

Roncato, Mel Ferrari and Nina Sanmartin) along with Caroline Ferreira.<br />

References<br />

• A MEDIDA DO GESTO. Ana Albani de Carvalho (coordenação e curadoria).<br />

Catálogo da exposição. Porto Alegre: <strong>MACRS</strong>, 2012.<br />

• ARAÚJO, Ana Lúcia. A Geração 80: um panorama e o caso de Porto Alegre.<br />

In: Revista Porto Arte, Porto Alegre, v. 10, n. 19, p. 33-59, nov. 1999.<br />

• BRITES, Blanca; CATTANI, Icleia; BULHÕES, Maria Amelia; GOMES, Paulo.<br />

100 anos de Artes Plásticas no Instituto de Artes da UFRGS. Porto Alegre:<br />

EDUFRGS, 2012.<br />

• BULHÕES, Maria Amelia. Arte contemporânea no Brasil. Belo Horizonte: C/<br />

Arte, 2019.<br />

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