JONATHAS DE ANDRADE Corpo Distorcido, Eu, mestiço/ Me, mestizo 2017, UV print on 16mm cardboard, 447 x 88 cm (detail)
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JONATHAS DE ANDRADE 'Eu, mestiço / Me, mestizo'
23/09/2017 - 07/01/2018
CONTINUA
46, rue de la Ferté-Gaucher
77169 Boissy-le-Châtel
Galleria Continua in San Gimignano is pleased to host a new solo show – Eu, mestiço / Me, mestizo – by Jonathas De Andrade, one
of the most promising Brazilian artists of his generation.
Eu, mestiço / Me, mestizo is part of a wider project by the artist, the point of departure of which was a study entitled “Race and Class in Rural Brazil”, carried out in the 1950s by Columbia University and sponsored by UNESCO. The project has involved three phases. De Andrade presented the first one at Performa NY in 2015 and the second at the SITE Santa Fe exhibition in 2016. The third and final phase, commissioned by the Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) and realized in 2017, is showing simultaneously at the IMS in São Paulo and at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano.
Between 1950 and 1951, researchers at Columbia University led by the anthropologist Charles Wagley conducted fieldwork in three Brazilian communities. Their aim was to learn more about the economic, political, cultural and psychological factors influencing the manifestation of social racism in the nation. The procedure used for the study, published in 1952, was mainly a combination of empiricism and interpretation, though photography was also used as a research […]
23/09/2017 - 07/01/2018
CONTINUA
46, rue de la Ferté-Gaucher
77169 Boissy-le-Châtel
Galleria Continua in San Gimignano is pleased to host a new solo show – Eu, mestiço / Me, mestizo – by Jonathas De Andrade, one
of the most promising Brazilian artists of his generation.
Eu, mestiço / Me, mestizo is part of a wider project by the artist, the point of departure of which was a study entitled “Race and Class in Rural Brazil”, carried out in the 1950s by Columbia University and sponsored by UNESCO. The project has involved three phases. De Andrade presented the first one at Performa NY in 2015 and the second at the SITE Santa Fe exhibition in 2016. The third and final phase, commissioned by the Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) and realized in 2017, is showing simultaneously at the IMS in São Paulo and at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano.
Between 1950 and 1951, researchers at Columbia University led by the anthropologist Charles Wagley conducted fieldwork in three Brazilian communities. Their aim was to learn more about the economic, political, cultural and psychological factors influencing the manifestation of social racism in the nation. The procedure used for the study, published in 1952, was mainly a combination of empiricism and interpretation, though photography was also used as a research […]