Why visit the echoes of surrealism today? Why approach alternative cosmologies to the Western paradigm now\u2014in other words, different ways of organizing shared reality? Various recent diagnoses remind us that we live in a time marked by the dulling of imagination, the dilution of the corporeal dimension in our dealings with the world, the undermining of the realm of dreams, and the resistance to dialogue with differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this context, dimensions such as eroticism, delirium, dreams, and alterity\u2014all mobilized by the surrealist legacy and reimagined within what we call \"other cosmologies\"\u2014gain central relevance. Curated by Luisa Duarte, the second group exhibition of Flexa spans a temporal arc beginning in the 1920s and extending to the present, bringing together artists whose works relate, in various ways, to these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contrary to a widespread understanding of surrealists, they were not so much interested in fabricating a fantastical parallel world as in establishing points of fracture in current reality, contributing to a sense of strangeness in the naturalness of all things. This movement, whose expression spreads from literature to visual arts, proposes critical ways of thinking about and experiencing reality, which is why their proposals still provide us with insights for understanding the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition shifts certain historical narratives that consider the impact of the surrealist movement in Brazil to be limited, highlighting how its poetic procedures continue to resonate in the country\u2019s contemporary art. At the same time, it brings to light some differences between the historical context in which surrealism emerged and the current moment, observing the social and cultural mutations that have occurred since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition is divided into four sections. They are<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eroticism and Death<\/strong>, represented by artists such as Tunga, Waltercio Caldas, Ismael Nery, Maria Martins, Julia Gallo, Maria L\u00eddia Magliani, and Fl\u00e1vio de Carvalho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Universe of Dreams and Oneiric Activity<\/strong>, featuring names like C\u00edcero Dias, Marc Chagall, and Rayana Rayo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zones of Delirium<\/strong>, showcasing works by Yayoi Kusama, Manuel Messias dos Santos, and Darc\u00edlio Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alterity and Other Cosmogonies<\/strong>, which puts into dialogue works by Chico da Silva, Maria Lira Marques, Claudia Andujar, H\u00e9lio Melo, and Jaider Esbell, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first part of the exhibition's title was extracted from the First Manifesto of Surrealism, published exactly 100 years ago by Andr\u00e9 Breton (1896-1966). The image of a night capable of harboring the day, contained in the fragment \u201cthe night of flashes,\u201d underscores the importance of the transit between the logic of dreams and the logic of wakefulness as a means to transform our relationship with what has been conventionally called \"reality.\" In this context, it proposes dialogues with recent efforts to elicit the emergence of narratives stemming from alternative cosmologies to the Western paradigm, as indicated in the exhibition's subtitle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alex \u010cerven\u00fd Manuel MessiasArtists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Alvim Corr\u00eaa
Athos Bulc\u00e3o
Caryb\u00e9
Chico da Silva
C\u00edcero Dias
Claudia Andujar
Darc\u00edlio Lima
Diambe
Fl\u00e1vio de Carvalho
Glauco Rodrigues
H\u00e9lio Melo
Ismael Nery
Jaider Esbell
Julia Gallo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Maria L\u00eddia Magliani
Maria Lira Marques
Maria Martins
Nilda Neves
Paloma Bosqu\u00ea
Pedro Fran\u00e7a
Rayana Rayo
Rebecca Sharp
Rodrigo Braga
Tarsila do Amaral
Tunga
Victor Brecheret
Waltercio Caldas
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