There are different ways to approach a city through art. One of them involves the iconography of its landscapes\u2014whether natural or urban\u2014created across different epochs. Another entails revisiting chapters of local art history and capturing, through them, something unique about the city. A third path seeks to write a sort of poetic chronicle of the different aspects of the social fabric within the studied territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the exhibition Rio: The Measure of Land<\/em>, que marca a inaugura\u00e7\u00e3o da FLEXA<\/strong>, nos aproximamos do Rio de Janeiro, tendo como b\u00fassola os diferentes modos acima elencados. Reunindo quarenta e seis artistas que cobrem um arco temporal do in\u00edcio do s\u00e9culo XIX at\u00e9 o presente, a coletiva apresenta paisagens hist\u00f3ricas e atuais da cidade; trabalhos representativos do Neoconcretismo \u2013 um dos momentos mais relevantes da Hist\u00f3ria da Arte carioca \u2013 em di\u00e1logo com os ecos em produ\u00e7\u00f5es posteriores; por fim, vemos um conjunto de obras que se aproxima de quest\u00f5es pol\u00edticas e sociais, como a viol\u00eancia urbana e a resist\u00eancia cultural na forma da festa e do carnaval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A common thread running throughout the exhibition is the juxtaposition of works created in different periods, creating friction between the past and the present. This curatorial approach suggests various paths, one of which reflects Flexa\u2019s mission to foster meaningful dialogues within art history by curating a collection spanning a wide timescale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The diverse range of artists featured here does justice to a Rio de Janeiro characterized by multiple facets that do not coalesce into a uniform image. Hence, multiple viewpoints and contexts are essential to delineate a comprehensive perspective on the city, resonating with its inherently diverse and unequal history. Lastly, the decision to arrange works non-chronologically, by bringing together pieces from distant dates, evokes Walter Benjamin\u2019s (1892-1940) concept of the temporality of artworks. According to Benjamin, artworks possess an intensive rather than extensive temporality, implying that a contemporary artwork may have closer ties to a piece from a century ago than to its contemporaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Luisa Duarte, Lucas Alberto<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":422,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"class_list":["post-48","exposicoes","type-exposicoes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposicoes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exposicoes"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}