Galeria Luisa Strina announces its first individual exhibition of Beto Shwafaty.
Beto Shwafaty is an artist and researcher based in Brazil. He has been involved with collective, curatorial and spatial practices since the early 2000s, and as a result, he develops a research-based practice on spaces, histories and visualities in which he seeks to connect formally and conceptually political, social and cultural issues that are converging to the art field.
The exhibition gathers works that act both symbolically and evocatively on various aspects and episodes regarding the oil exploitation cycles, considered as one of the main 'lubricants' of the political and historical narratives of the past century. For this project, on which he has been working since 2009, the artist digs into the effects, presences, and echoes of the speeches and actions surrounding the oil universe and its local cycles when they spread through different times and ranges of the public sphere,...such as the media, advertising, political speech, cartography, and everyday objects.
His recent exhibitions include: CFB: 25 anos at Casa França-Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 2015); Encruzilhada at Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro, 2015); 5th Prêmio Sesi Marcantônio Vilaça at MAC Ibirapuera (São Paulo, 2015); Temporada de Projetos, at Paço das Artes (São Paulo, 2014); PArC Solo Projects (Lima, 2014); O Artista Como... (São Paulo, 2014);Fundamentos da substância do design: metáforas culturais para projetar um novo futuro at Museu da Cidade - Oca (São Paulo, 2014); P33_Formas Únicas de Continuidade no Espaço [33° Panorama da Arte Brasileira] (São Paulo, 2013); 9th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2013); Amor e Ódio a Lygia Clark at Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw, 2013);Conversations Pieces at NBK (Berlin, 2013); 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennial at CCSP (São Paulo, 2013); Eternal Tour (São Paulo, 2012); Mitologias at Cité des Arts (Paris, 2012) and MAM (São Paulo, 2013); and À sombra do futuro, Instituto Cervantes (São Paulo, 2010).
His work is part of the following public collections: MAR Museu de Arte do Rio, Brazil; Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil; Paço Imperial - IPHAN, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contempôranea José Pancetti, Campinas, Brazil; Pinacoteca de Piracicaba, Brazil; Estampería Quinteña, Quito, Ecuador; Casa de Las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
In 2013, Shwafaty published A Vida dos Centros [The Life of Centers], a docufiction photobook that approaches some historical flows of urban development in three regions of São Paulo.
In 2015, the artist was awarded the fellowship ICCo/SP-Arte and the FOCO Bradesco ArtRio prize, which respectively offered him a residence period at Residency Unlimited (RU), in New York, and at Lugar a Dudas, in Cali, Colombia, both in the second half of the year. Further in 2015, he will take part in the 19th Festival de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil (São Paulo) and the Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Belo Horizonte.
Entrada actualizada el el 01 oct de 2015
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