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Dalton Paula : retratos brasileiros

Title

Dalton Paula : retratos brasileiros / organização editorial e curadoria, Adriano Pedrosa, Glaucea Helena de Britto, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz ; textos, Adriano Pedrosa [and five others] = Dalton Paula : Brazilian portraits / edited and curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Glaucea Helena de Britto, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz ; texts by Adriano Pedrosa [and five others].

Author

Paula, Dalton, 1982-

Publication

São Paulo, Brasil : MASP, Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, [2022]
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383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits; 26 cm

Summary

Apresentação do patrocinador = Sponsor's foreword / Leffosse -- Dalton Paula no MASP = Dalton Paula at MASP / Heitor Martins, Adriano Pedrosa -- Dalton Paula e seus retratos afrodescendentes: dar vida à morte, fazer da ausência uma grande presença / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz = Dalton Paula's portraits of Afro-descendants: bestwing new life to the deceased, making absence presence -- O desafio do branco em ouro, negro e azul = The white challenged in gold, black and blue / Glaucena Helena de Britto -- Os retratos das mais excelentes vidas pretas do Brasil, desde Ganga Zumba até os dia atuais = Portraits of black lives of excellent in Brazil, from Ganga Zumba to the present day / Vivian Braga Dos Santos -- Dalton Paula: o direito ou retrato = Dalton Paula: the right to portraiture / Marcelo Campos -- Dalton Paula e as tarefas de rever a história e de preencher a parede vazia dos não representados = Dalton Paula and the tasks of reviewing history and filling the void wall of the unrepresented / Divino Sobral -- Costura de fragmentos: uma conversa com Dalton Paula = Weaving fragments: a conversation with Dalton Paula / Adriano Pedrosa -- Reproduções dos trabalhos = Reproductions of works.
Through the end of October, São Pauloœs MASP museum stages thirty portraits from the acclaimed Dalton Paula: Brazilian Portraitsʺ series. In 2020, the artist from Brasilia, who lives and works in Goiânia, Goiás state, landed his first New York solo show, Dalton Paula: a kidnapper of souls,ʺ at the Alexander and Bonin Gallery with works from the series now displayed at the MASP. Paula also placed eight works from the celebrated series in the ongoing, current MoMA collective exhibition Critical Fabulations.ʺ The idea began with two 2018 portraits, João de Deus Nascimento and Zeferina, both on display, and evolved into a succession of portraits in the same fashion and dimension following a strict uniform system. In an association of early Renaissance portraiture and an I.D. photo, each portrait depicts an African or Afro-Brazilian man or woman painted on a bisected canvas (totaling sixty-one-by-forty-five centimeters), with twenty-two-karat-gold leaves over the hair, all of them with the same pale blue background. It is the artistœs postmortem homage to leading figures, who fought from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century for the rights of Brazilœs Black population, but were erased from official history, center-staged by the dominant white population. They all hold their head high, look regal with their head of hair in gold leaf, and direct their sustained gaze in the same direction, at the viewersœ eyes. You may question isnœt the monothematic portrayal boring?ʺ The portraits show searing eyes that seem to vibrate on the canvas and, a tip for its full appreciation, give yourself time to read the small two-paragraph biographies that tell the poignant plight of each of these freedom fighters who were forgotten, died in poverty or killed for their beliefs, but were vital for the nationœs social architecture and its march toward human dignity. Forty-year-old Paulaœs painting, performance, installation, photography and objects attempt to reshape the historical panorama through revisionism and reconsideration of the contributions of Brazilœs Afro-descendant population. In 2016, he participated in the thirty-second Bienal de São Paulo, and the following year at The Atlantic Triangle exhibition at the Goethe Institute, Lagos, Nigeria. His work is found in collections such as the MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), and the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
Dalton Paula (Brasília, 1982) works in painting, drawing, video, performance, and objects that refer to many Afro-Brazilian histories and experiences. Brazilian Portraits accompanies the artist's solo exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), and focuses on a central part of the artist's production: the portraits. Paula researches Black characters in Brazilian histories that do not have visual representation, precisely with the aim of giving them a face. This book, the first fully dedicated to the artist, reproduces 58 portraits accompanied by biographical notes on the characters. This is an essential volume for those wishing to understand both Afro-Brazilian history and contemporary art production. -- Provided by the publisher.

Alternative Title

Retratos brasileiros
Dalton Paula : Brazilian portraits
Brazilian portraits

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held from July 29 to October 30, 2022 at Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

Parallel texts in Portuguese and English.

Contents

Apresentação do patrocinador = Sponsor's foreword / Leffosse -- Dalton Paula no MASP = Dalton Paula at MASP / Heitor Martins, Adriano Pedrosa -- Dalton Paula e seus retratos afrodescendentes : dar vida à morte, fazer da ausência uma grande presença = Dalton Paula's portraits of Afro-descendants: bestwing new life to the deceased, making absence presence / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz -- O desafio do branco em ouro, negro e azul = The white challenged in gold, black and blue / Glaucena Helena de Britto -- Os retratos das mais excelentes vidas pretas do Brasil, desde Ganga Zumba até os dias atuais = Portraits of black lives of excellence in Brazil, from Ganga Zumba to the present day / Vivian Braga Dos Santos -- Dalton Paula : o direito ao retrato = Dalton Paula : the right to portraiture / Marcelo Campos -- Dalton Paula e as tarefas de rever a história e de preencher a parede vazia dos não representados = Dalton Paula and the tasks of revising history and filling the void of the unrepresented / Divino Sobral -- Costura de fragmentos : uma conversa com Dalton Paula = Weaving fragments : a conversation with Dalton Paula / Adriano Pedrosa.

ISBN

6557770225
9786557770221

OCLC

on1383739385
1383739385
SCSB-14531116

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries