Panorama of Brazilian Art

The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (Brazil) presents the exhibition Panorama of Brazilian Art 2011, which has Itineraries, itinerancies as theme and gathers about forty artists from different parts of the country, as well as a few foreigners, with greater or smaller insertion in our national scene.

With globalization and volatilization of boundaries, artists travel more and more in order to take part in exhibitions and residencies and, in some cases, they spend more time in transit than in the cities where they reside.

That constant circulation creates different time realities. On a first level, there is urgency in seeking results from residencies and stays that can be very short, of one week or one month, and deadlines for delivery and setting up within an international exhibition schedule increasingly hectic. In parallel, there is the time in which an artist's work is constructed, his or her work process throughout the years and influences he or she suffers through these dislocations.

What kind of art is generated in our current situation? Panorama 2011 intends to be a platform for debate and analysis about what lasts and becomes final product as counterpoint to the speed and amount of processes and accomplishments, and of dislocations that are often aimed at creating a work within a given context, artificial as it is not the artist's studio nor the city in which he or she lives. The selected works bring in them dual characteristics, such as impermanence and a perennial quality, presence and absence, formalization and improvise.

Date: until December 18.
Location: The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art. Parque do Ibirapuera, portão 3. s/nº
São Paulo. SP.  Brasil.
Opening Hours: from Monday to Friday from 10am to 8pm. Saturdays and Sundays from 8am to 6pm.