PRESS RELEASE


The Brazilian ‘Movimento Concreto’ for the launch of the Furini Arte Contemporanea’s new gallery space in Rome



Furini Arte Contemporanea is delighted to present the Brazilian artist Marlon de Azambuja with his first one person show in Italy ‘Movimento Concreto’. The exhibition, curated by Antonio Arèvalo, is also Furini Arte Contemporanea’s inaugural show at the new Via Giulia n. 8 gallery space.

Marlon de Azambuja (born in 1978 in Santo Antônio da Patrulha – Brasile, lives and works in Madrid) has a poetic link with the “Movimento Concreto”, the most important cultural tendency in Brazil in art, literature, music and architecture, based on the idea of “concrete on the go”, which includes the synthesis of complex and open identity where the environment is protagonist and meaning both psychological and phisical place.

For his first one man show in Italy, Marlon uses groups of conversing works, but at the same time different each others, because he believes that the deepening complexity is essential to understand the origin of the research. In this way we speak about a Brazilian artist, as much as the utopic Brasilia created by Niemar, as the concrete poetry, as the Lygia Clarck in Helio Oiticica, from Lygia Pape to Cildo Meireles, from Tunga to Miguel Rio Branco.

We see a long table where different but similar structures as buildings of variable size lean on with a semi spherical base. The first idea is to present a sort of dinamic Skyline, where the user could touch and move, but the buildings keep the erect position, vertical, indelible.
Togheter with this work there are videos recorded in the Avenida Paolista, in São Paolo in Brasil, where we can see some buildings, or better still their tops towards the sky, and a movement of the camera creates a sort of concrete effect of penetration. This is also an ironic way to explode certain forms, somehow phallics and some theories about the horizontal constructions.

Also showing a version of the works “Metaesquemas” on the city of Rome. I Metaesquemas, that we can translate as ‘scheme of the schemes’, are works which are tightly linked with the social tissue and the environment, so estabilishing perceptive-structural relations between the work and the environment where it moves. He takes pictures of the street’s objects and then he draws on them some geometric forms. Passing the time it can happen that the impressed image could leave its natural color, but the structure will remain permanently. This is a personal reading of the city, using street’s items as manholes, etc., but the purpose is always to manipulate the expression which conducts to an adjustment of the content defyning an usual code change throught the aesthetic use of the sign of a language.
Since tree years Marlon de Azambuja underlines the urban space with adhesive tape, with the finality of highlighting, or best, discovering always existed aspects, but we have never imagined, with a peculiar crudety where there’s not any space for secondary aspects.

Marlon de Azambuja is part of a constructive culture’s memory, which finds its previouses on the Brazilian Concretism, and it interwines with the eroticism which derives from a tropical sensitivity.
He also indicates that there exist interstices charged of mobility throught whose let pass the language to bring it to new expressive accesses.

Opening
Wednesday September 30th
6.30 p.m – 8.30 p.m.

Exhibition Dates
Wednesday September 30th – Saturday October 31st 2009

Gallery Hours
Wednesday – Saturday 1 pm – 7 pm

Address
Rome – Via Giulia 8

Info
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