Research Catalog

Title

Letícia Parente : arqueologia do cotidiano : objetos de uso / organização: André Parente e Katia Maciel.

Author

Parente, Letícia, 1930-1991

Publication

Rio de Janeiro : +2 Editora, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Parente, André, 1957-
• Maciel, Katia
• Oi Futuro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia.
• Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Fortaleza, Brazil)

Description

239 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

Retrospective that highlights the valuable legacy of Letícia Parente (b. Brazil 1930 - 1991), one of the pioneers of Brazilian video and mail art along with Anna Bella Geiger, Sonia Andrade and Fernando Cocchiarale. While Parente is better known for her video art, however this art genre was not her most important means of expression. She started in art when she was already 40 (1971) and experimented with photography, audio-visual (projection of slides with sound), cinema, mail art, xerox, and installations. This exhibition documents a compilation of experimental audiovisuals (short videos and intimate narratives produced in her own home) that were thought to be lost. In the 1970's Parente would send the master recordings of her videos to various exhibitions, as copy making was not available at the time. "Much of what was produced in Media Art in Brazil during the 1970's has been lost. Most of the xerox and mail art works as well as video and video text works have been lost, whether because they were fragile material or due to the obsolescence of equipment or unskillfulness of art institutions in Brazil (which include museums, art collectors and artists) with respect to archive. More than one third of Leticia's videos have been lost, as she used to send her own matrixes to the exhibitions, since it was impossible to make copies of her work at the time" --Page 28.

Subjects

• Parente, Letícia, 1930-1991 > Criticism and interpretation
• Parente, Letícia, 1930-1991 > Exhibitions

Note

• Published on the occasion of three exhibition held in 2011: at the Oi Futuro Flamengo, in Rio de Janeiro; at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Bahia, in Salvador and at the Museu de Arte Contemporanea in the Centro do Mar de Arte e Cultura, in Fortaleza.
• Chronology: pages 213-223.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-236).

Language (note)

• In English and Portuguese.

Contents

Introduction / André Parente, director Oi Futuro and Katia Maciel, curators -- Exhibitions -- Hello, its Letícia / André Parente -- The measure of the house is the body / Katia Maciel -- The video art of Letícia Parente / Rogerio Luz -- An apparent world / Jorge la Feria -- I, world of myself / Clarissa Diniz -- Letícia Parente by Letícia Parente -- Proposal of seriation of works -- Leticia statement -- Audiovisual -- Videos -- Photography -- Xerox and Postal Art -- Installations -- Drawing -- Chronology-Biography -- Exhibitions.

ISBN

• 9788564140011
• 8564140012

OCLC

• ocn865021756
• 865021756
• SCSB-5723153

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries