Wanda foi uma menina tímida. Mais propensa a ouvir do que a falar. Mais interessada ainda em olhar. Muitos anos depois, a artista plástica Wanda Pimentel continua um pouco tímida. Só que o olhar se tornou muito mais aguçado. É pelo olhar que absorveu o mundo (o seu e o dos outros) e o transformou em arte – que agora está reunida em livro pela primeira vez. A editora Silvia Roesler – há 15 anos especializada em livros de arte brasileira – lança Wanda Pimentel uma abordagem abrangente da obra de uma das mais importantes artistas de sua geração, ao lado Rubens Gerchman, Carlos Vergara, Lygia Pape, Antonio Manuel, Raymundo Collares, Antonio Dias (com patrocínio da Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Secretaria Municipal de Cultura)
Sobre el fenómeno global “Gangnam Style” -opera prima de PSY- la blogera Laura Salas escribió: “El videoclip de Gangnam Style es un vivo ejemplo de crítica hacia la globalización sin dirección definida y no equitativa, puesto que se burla del consumismo y del estilo de vida hedonista de los nuevos ricos de Seúl. Parte del éxito de Psy es sin duda su humor y energía impresionante que transforma un ambiente coreano provincial en una representación excelente del kitsch relacionado a los nuevos ricos (Wu-Suk Cho, 2012). En pocas palabras, ha logrado fusionar en un solo mensaje particularidades extremadamente coreanas con aspectos propios de lo globalizado. Sin embargo, ¿no formará parte del éxito del video el que nos muestre un insight que combina la imagen actual de éxito vinculado a una exagerada riqueza, con la pérdida de sentido y absurdo que resulta de la exuberancia? ¿No nos hablará de una consciencia colectiva que se ha dado cuenta que la manera en que se está dirigiendo el proceso de globalización va por mal camino y de un deseo de reorientarla hacia una vía alterna? El texto completo de la investigación y opinión de Laura Salas en Circulo de Cafe: http://circulodecafe.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/el-gangnam-style/
Un texto de referencia sobre Carmelo Carrá y su obra: Pellegrini, Aldo. “El mundo de Carmelo Carra.” In C. Garrá: gouaches-dibujos-pinturas. Exh. cat., Santiago de Chile: Galería Central de Arte, 1971.
DESCRIPTORES DE TÓPICO
Argentino; crítica de arte; exhibición; Italiano; Surrealista
DESCRIPTORES NOMBRES
Carrá, Carmelo
Abstractos vs. figurativos; Hiperrealismo, realismo mágico y lo fantástico:
El texto presenta las obras de Carmelo Carrá señalando que ofrecen el mundo de lo real, visto por un hombre sin prejuicios. Se trata de una realidad anticonvencional de resultado aleatorio, ilimitado y abierto a nuevos descubrimientos. A su juicio, la imagen parece haber sido sometida a una explosión siendo después recompuesta como un rompecabezas que produce un “documento de la inestabilidad de lo visible”. El crítico destaca que su mérito consiste en manejar lo imprevisto de un modo verosímil. La imagen se reviste de humor que, como siempre, se construye sobre la trama de lo absurdo.
Comentarios críticos
Aldo Pellegrini (Rosario 1903 – Buenos Aires 1973) quien escribió esta crítica sobre Carmelo Carrá, fue un poeta, dramaturgo, ensayista y crítico de arte de destacada actuación en el campo cultural argentino. Vinculado desde el primer momento al desarrollo del surrealismo, dirigió varios proyectos editoriales. Asimismo, apoyó y difundió las distintas vertientes del arte abstracto, impulsando algunos grupos como Artistas Modernos de la Argentina y la Asociación Arte Nuevo.
Carmelo Carrà nació en 1945 en Italia, desarrollando una obra plástica de carácter surrealista desde la Argentina, estableciendo contactos con Brasil y Chile en la década del sesenta.
La exposición C. Carrá: gouaches – dibujos – pinturas se inauguró el 9 de agosto de 1971 en la Galería Central de Arte de Santiago de Chile. El texto del prólogo fue reproducido en Carmelo Carrá: pinturas, serigrafías, serie azul, presentada el 29 de julio 1974 en Art Gallery Internacional de Buenos Aires.
Esta presentación testimonia el juicio crítico de Pellegrini ante la obra de Carrá, especialmente con respecto al choque de elementos insólitos y al equilibrio; o sea, entre la realidad y el sueño que se ponen en juego en su obra.
Investigador:
Lic. Cristina Rossi.
Equipo:
Fundación Espigas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
If Sir George Martin was honored in recognition for his contribution to the music industry , and knighted by the British Empire, the Crown should consider the possibility of someday honor a British woman whose work influenced not only the art of the Sixties but also the fashion and design of her time. Meanwhile, in recognition of her services to art and popular culture, Art Democracy nominates Bridget Riley for the title of Dame of the Op Art and for sure she deserves it. http://on.fb.me/RfbwTr
Valeria, muchas gracias por tus comentarios y la presencia de Ustedes en la inauguración. En nombre de Cristina Ghetti, Gianni Campochiaro y Luisa Pedrouzo de GC arte, les enviamos un cordial saludo.
Welcome arteBA 2013 / Edition 22 / May 24-27 Buenos Aires / Click the link and open the catalogue: http://www.arteba.org/2013/?p=1970 arteBA, a leading international contemporary art fair focused on Latin-American Art and the most relevant annual cultural event in Buenos Aires. The fair takes place every May in the premises of La Rural, in the neighbourhood of Palermo. The fair is organized by arteBA Fundación, a non-profit organization that has been active since 1991 with the goal of supporting artistic creation in the visual arts in Argentina and Latin America. The Foundation contributes to the development of the contemporary art market through its annual activities, it promotes debates on matters of art and culture in Latin America, and helps bringing the work of the Latin American artists to the attention of a wider audience.
18 May 2013 at 6:26 pmhttp://www.arteba.org/2013/?p=1970
Art Democracy´s Best Rock Bands Ever / Now featuring: STEELY DAN "The perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies" (Rolling Stone) Click the link and enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2JSa8Er58s Steely Dan was the American rock band lead by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop. Rolling Stone magazine has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies." The band's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies played by Becker and Fagen along with a revolving cast of rock and pop studio musicians. Steely Dan's "cerebral, wry and eccentric" lyrics, often filled with sharp sarcasm, touch upon such themes as drugs, love affairs, crime, and their true-to-life "contempt of west coast hippies." The pair are well-known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio, with one notable example being that Becker and Fagen used at least 42 different studio musicians, 11 engineers, and took over a year to record the tracks that resulted in 1980's Gaucho — an album that contains only seven songs. Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974, but in 1975 became a purely studio-based act. The late 1970s saw the group release a series of moderately successful singles and albums. They disbanded in 1981, and throughout most of the next decade, Fagen and Becker remained largely inactive in the music world. During this time, the group steadily built and maintained "a cult following ............................................................................ Dos excelentes músicos neoyorquinos, Donald Fagen (teclados, voz) y Walter Becker (guitarras, bajo eléctrico) formaron la esencia, el núcleo duro, de STEELY DAN unaexquisita y elegante banda. Un grupo formado a comienzos de los Setenta. Si bien originalmente fueron una banda con una formación estable (5 ó 6 miembros) y periódicas giras, a partir del cuarto disco se convirtieron en un dúo de estudio secundado por extraordinarios músicos de sesión, los mejores de la profesión. Su sexto álbum se tituló AJA. Fue grabado en 1977, con una nómina asombrosa de músicos de la escena jazz-rock: Wayne Shorter, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Tom Scott, Victor Feldman, Chuck Rainey entre otros.
18 May 2013 at 3:52 amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2JSa8Er58s
POP BRAZIL / WANDA PIMENTEL / Untitled, circa 1970 "Wanda Pimentel’s painting has been, since the beginning, in the 60’s, a metaphor of imprisonment. Everything in her work – themes, images, coloring, space connection, graphic structure – is used in order to increase a feeling of oppression and confinement. Through this comprising metaphor, the artist expresses a prevailing feeling in her work – the loneliness of human being" Wanda Pimentel and the Aesthetic of loneliness Frederico Morais [Rio de Janeiro, August 1994]
13 May 2013 at 12:10 amWanda foi uma menina tímida. Mais propensa a ouvir do que a falar. Mais interessada ainda em olhar. Muitos anos depois, a artista plástica Wanda Pimentel continua um pouco tímida. Só que o olhar se tornou muito mais aguçado. É pelo olhar que absorveu o mundo (o seu e o dos outros) e o transformou em arte – que agora está reunida em livro pela primeira vez. A editora Silvia Roesler – há 15 anos especializada em livros de arte brasileira – lança Wanda Pimentel uma abordagem abrangente da obra de uma das mais importantes artistas de sua geração, ao lado Rubens Gerchman, Carlos Vergara, Lygia Pape, Antonio Manuel, Raymundo Collares, Antonio Dias (com patrocínio da Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Secretaria Municipal de Cultura)
After Russian hackers attack, ART DEMOCRACY site is working again! So sorry to all for the downtime on the Art Democracy.net We are back up and appreciate your patience on this!
20 April 2013 at 9:48 pmhttp://www.artdemocracy.net/
POP CULTURE "Gangnam Style" star Psy´s new music video registers over 10 million You Tube hits in 15 hours. How do you like it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ “Gangnam Style" star Psy's new music video had been watched more than 10 million times on YouTube less than 24 hours after he unveiled his much-anticipated new dance in Seoul, the website showed Sunday. The South Korean pop star on Saturday performed for the first time the new hip-swinging dance aimed at replicating the global success of "Gangnam Style" and its famed horse-riding moves in his latest single called "Gentleman". The video, released a day after the song hit online stores worldwide, registered 10.7 million hits in the 15 hours after its debut at a packed concert in the South Korean capital as curious fans flocked to the video-sharing site. t shows Psy, wearing his signature sunglasses, dancing at various locations in and around Seoul including a high-end clothing store, restaurant and swimming pool. The story line features the singer teasing and playing practical jokes on women, such as pulling their chairs away as they are about to sit, before meeting his match. It was the video of "Gangnam Style", and in particular Psy's signature horse-riding dance, that pushed him to global stardom last year after it was posted on YouTube and turned into a viral sensation. A satire on the luxury lifestyle of Seoul's upscale Gangnam district, it has become the most-watched YouTube video of all time, registering more than 1.5 billion views since it debuted last July. The song topped charts around the world, and inspired a horde of online tributes and parodies, as well as flash mobs of thousands of dancing fans in cities such as Paris and Milan. Reactions to the latest electro-dance song were mixed but video -- showing the quirky singer's signature self-mocking humour as well as the new hip-swiveling dance -- left more fans impressed. "The beat is quite catchy! I'm sitting here shaking my hips side to side even though i have no idea what he's saying," said one Youtube comment. "Mark my words. This WILL be the second video to make it 1,000,000,000," said another commentator, while some others said "R.I.P, Harlem Shake," in reference to another viral hit that swept the world recently. "Gentleman" contains more English lyrics than "Gangnam Style" in a clear nod to the singer's newfound global audience. Source: Standard digital Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ
14 April 2013 at 9:22 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ
POP CULTURE "Gangnam Style" star Psy´s new music video registers over 10 million You Tube hits in 15 hours. How do you like it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ “Gangnam Style" star Psy's new music video had been watched more than 10 million times on YouTube less than 24 hours after he unveiled his much-anticipated new dance in Seoul, the website showed Sunday. The South Korean pop star on Saturday performed for the first time the new hip-swinging dance aimed at replicating the global success of "Gangnam Style" and its famed horse-riding moves in his latest single called "Gentleman". The video, released a day after the song hit online stores worldwide, registered 10.7 million hits in the 15 hours after its debut at a packed concert in the South Korean capital as curious fans flocked to the video-sharing site. t shows Psy, wearing his signature sunglasses, dancing at various locations in and around Seoul including a high-end clothing store, restaurant and swimming pool. The story line features the singer teasing and playing practical jokes on women, such as pulling their chairs away as they are about to sit, before meeting his match. It was the video of "Gangnam Style", and in particular Psy's signature horse-riding dance, that pushed him to global stardom last year after it was posted on YouTube and turned into a viral sensation. A satire on the luxury lifestyle of Seoul's upscale Gangnam district, it has become the most-watched YouTube video of all time, registering more than 1.5 billion views since it debuted last July. The song topped charts around the world, and inspired a horde of online tributes and parodies, as well as flash mobs of thousands of dancing fans in cities such as Paris and Milan. Reactions to the latest electro-dance song were mixed but video -- showing the quirky singer's signature self-mocking humour as well as the new hip-swiveling dance -- left more fans impressed. "The beat is quite catchy! I'm sitting here shaking my hips side to side even though i have no idea what he's saying," said one Youtube comment. "Mark my words. This WILL be the second video to make it 1,000,000,000," said another commentator, while some others said "R.I.P, Harlem Shake," in reference to another viral hit that swept the world recently. "Gentleman" contains more English lyrics than "Gangnam Style" in a clear nod to the singer's newfound global audience. Source: Standard digital Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO_zypdnsQ
14 April 2013 at 9:20 pmSobre el fenómeno global “Gangnam Style” -opera prima de PSY- la blogera Laura Salas escribió: “El videoclip de Gangnam Style es un vivo ejemplo de crítica hacia la globalización sin dirección definida y no equitativa, puesto que se burla del consumismo y del estilo de vida hedonista de los nuevos ricos de Seúl. Parte del éxito de Psy es sin duda su humor y energía impresionante que transforma un ambiente coreano provincial en una representación excelente del kitsch relacionado a los nuevos ricos (Wu-Suk Cho, 2012). En pocas palabras, ha logrado fusionar en un solo mensaje particularidades extremadamente coreanas con aspectos propios de lo globalizado. Sin embargo, ¿no formará parte del éxito del video el que nos muestre un insight que combina la imagen actual de éxito vinculado a una exagerada riqueza, con la pérdida de sentido y absurdo que resulta de la exuberancia? ¿No nos hablará de una consciencia colectiva que se ha dado cuenta que la manera en que se está dirigiendo el proceso de globalización va por mal camino y de un deseo de reorientarla hacia una vía alterna? El texto completo de la investigación y opinión de Laura Salas en Circulo de Cafe: http://circulodecafe.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/el-gangnam-style/
DYNAMO / Un siècle de lumière et de mouvement dans l’art 1913-2013 / 10 Avril 2013 - 22 Juillet 2013 Le Grand Palais, Paris Sur près de 4000m2, l’exposition montre comment, de Calder à Kapoor, de nombreux artistes ont traité les notions de vision, d’espace, de lumière et de mouvement dans leurs œuvres, en réalisant souvent des installations dans lesquelles le visiteur est partie prenante : les atmosphères chromatiques et changeantes d’Ann Veronica Janssens, les miroirs kaléidoscopiques de Jeppe Hein ou les réalisations in situ de Felice Varini.
11 April 2013 at 1:50 amImage: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Transchromie mécanique, 1965 Plexiglas, aluminium, moteur Atelier Cruz-Diez © Carlos Cruz-Diez © Adagp, Paris 2013
ROLL OVER adeus anos 70 é um livro de fotogafias de José Paulo Ferro, retrato de uma época e arquivo fotografico de encontros de uma geração em torno do rock dos anos 70. Marshall McLuhan, filósofo canadiano e teórico da comunicação, guru da aldeia global, referiu-se ao rock como “a grande poesia da nossa época”. Neste universo, ainda segundo o autor, “as palavras são tão importantes como o ritmo. O rock é a língua universal, a lingua do gesto e do grito. A língua da comunicação e da participação, uma revolução fantástica”. Um pensamento que deu mote a duas edições recentes dedicadas ao universo do rock n’ roll, com carimbo da editora Documenta, lançadas na Fundação EDP – Museu da Electricidade, em Lisboa.
6 April 2013 at 4:03 amhttp://canal180.pt/2013/01/31/duas-edicoes-documenta-sobre-o-rock-n-roll/
5 April 2013 at 4:11 am
http://hoyesarte.com/exposiciones-de-arte/en-cartel/12968-georges-melies-el-primer-mago-del-cine.html
Grace Kelly & her Rolleiflex / "Me & My Camera" Vintage. Thank you Micaela Vecchiet for this great pic!
25 March 2013 at 2:35 amEnriqueta, nuestro album ME & MY CAMERA reúne precisamente esas fotografias
Grace Kelly & her Rolleiflex / "Me & My Camera" Vintage. Thank you Micaela Vecchiet for this great pic!
25 March 2013 at 2:35 amhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150698555162157.397077.300919407156&type=1&l=69fb1eab02
Searching for a forgotten pop artist of the Sixties in Paris.
26 January 2013 at 5:19 pmUn texto de referencia sobre Carmelo Carrá y su obra: Pellegrini, Aldo. “El mundo de Carmelo Carra.” In C. Garrá: gouaches-dibujos-pinturas. Exh. cat., Santiago de Chile: Galería Central de Arte, 1971.
DESCRIPTORES DE TÓPICO
Argentino; crítica de arte; exhibición; Italiano; Surrealista
DESCRIPTORES NOMBRES
Carrá, Carmelo
Abstractos vs. figurativos; Hiperrealismo, realismo mágico y lo fantástico:
El texto presenta las obras de Carmelo Carrá señalando que ofrecen el mundo de lo real, visto por un hombre sin prejuicios. Se trata de una realidad anticonvencional de resultado aleatorio, ilimitado y abierto a nuevos descubrimientos. A su juicio, la imagen parece haber sido sometida a una explosión siendo después recompuesta como un rompecabezas que produce un “documento de la inestabilidad de lo visible”. El crítico destaca que su mérito consiste en manejar lo imprevisto de un modo verosímil. La imagen se reviste de humor que, como siempre, se construye sobre la trama de lo absurdo.
Comentarios críticos
Aldo Pellegrini (Rosario 1903 – Buenos Aires 1973) quien escribió esta crítica sobre Carmelo Carrá, fue un poeta, dramaturgo, ensayista y crítico de arte de destacada actuación en el campo cultural argentino. Vinculado desde el primer momento al desarrollo del surrealismo, dirigió varios proyectos editoriales. Asimismo, apoyó y difundió las distintas vertientes del arte abstracto, impulsando algunos grupos como Artistas Modernos de la Argentina y la Asociación Arte Nuevo.
Carmelo Carrà nació en 1945 en Italia, desarrollando una obra plástica de carácter surrealista desde la Argentina, estableciendo contactos con Brasil y Chile en la década del sesenta.
La exposición C. Carrá: gouaches – dibujos – pinturas se inauguró el 9 de agosto de 1971 en la Galería Central de Arte de Santiago de Chile. El texto del prólogo fue reproducido en Carmelo Carrá: pinturas, serigrafías, serie azul, presentada el 29 de julio 1974 en Art Gallery Internacional de Buenos Aires.
Esta presentación testimonia el juicio crítico de Pellegrini ante la obra de Carrá, especialmente con respecto al choque de elementos insólitos y al equilibrio; o sea, entre la realidad y el sueño que se ponen en juego en su obra.
Investigador:
Lic. Cristina Rossi.
Equipo:
Fundación Espigas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
13 December 2012 at 2:03 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfgRGtbl6g
13 December 2012 at 2:03 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfgRGtbl6g
CRISTINA GHETTI / Back in B.A.
13 December 2012 at 2:01 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DrdqELpMY
Searching for a forgotten pop artist of the Sixties in Paris.
27 November 2012 at 4:05 pmHello Yazzi, please send us pictures of those artworks by private message and maybe we can help you.
CRISTINA GHETTI / Back in B.A.
7 November 2012 at 12:25 amIf Sir George Martin was honored in recognition for his contribution to the music industry , and knighted by the British Empire, the Crown should consider the possibility of someday honor a British woman whose work influenced not only the art of the Sixties but also the fashion and design of her time. Meanwhile, in recognition of her services to art and popular culture, Art Democracy nominates Bridget Riley for the title of Dame of the Op Art and for sure she deserves it. http://on.fb.me/RfbwTr
CRISTINA GHETTI / Back in B.A.
7 November 2012 at 12:23 amCarol, thank you for your comment! You are right. We invite you to see our album “The Dame of Op Art”: http://on.fb.me/RfbwTr
CRISTINA GHETTI / Back in B.A.
20 October 2012 at 12:56 amValeria, muchas gracias por tus comentarios y la presencia de Ustedes en la inauguración. En nombre de Cristina Ghetti, Gianni Campochiaro y Luisa Pedrouzo de GC arte, les enviamos un cordial saludo.
BOSSA NOVA / What Brazil did to the world.
16 October 2012 at 4:04 amSERGIO MENDEZ Mas que nada / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ-NGNCRFmY
Sergio Mendes – Mas Que Nada
BOSSA NOVA / What Brazil did to the world.
16 October 2012 at 4:04 amFrank Sinatra & Tom Jobim Live – Bossa Nova Medley (1967) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRbmfX7-nMw&feature=related
BOSSA NOVA / What Brazil did to the world.
16 October 2012 at 4:04 amGal Costa – WAVE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ADChhquXM
BOSSA NOVA / What Brazil did to the world.
16 October 2012 at 4:01 amCaetano Veloso CHEGA DE SAUDADE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW2tqqJktL4
BOSSA NOVA / What Brazil did to the world.
16 October 2012 at 3:49 amVinicius De Moraes e Toquinho – Para Viver Um Grande Amor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUBCOtDyGCU
BOSSA NOVA / What Brazil did to the world.
16 October 2012 at 3:27 amSTAN GETZ – JOAO GILBERTO Aguas De Marzo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ehXZ2ha7E