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Dora Longo Bahia «who’afraid of red-?» 1999
Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 180 cm
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Dora Longo Bahia
(Brazil)
The work I have been doing this past year consists
of figurative paintings almost totally monochromes
where the image itself appears in a pictorial mist.
The first works of this series are white paintings
portraying men with the proportions of documental
photographs. The paintings are ghosts, remains of
images. In 1998, during a working period in Paris, I
made misty landscapes paintings appropriating the
grey and beige colours typical of the city as well
as the diagonal incidence of the sun light common
there and directly opposed to the white vertical light
of the tropics (Sao Paulo) and covered them with
fog through veils of paint.
The photographs of the paintings were considered bad
by the technicians from the laboratory because the
images were not clear enough (this being related to
the painting itself but ignored by the technicians).
I became interested in how photography can deceive
and what bad photography is.
Starting a research on friends and family archives,
I selected antique photographs and grouped them,
following alterations of colours or of the image itself
(for example, interference of fungus).
From some of these antique 6x6 slides, I continued
the monochrome series, using images of mothers
with babies, that through a peculiarity of the old film
or an alteration due to time, had become totally red.
The images on the paintings continue to appear as
red ghosts, in a red environment, involved by a red
mist. I also transfered them on different surfaces like
glass, parchement or leather, through transfer (photocopies) or prints and rephotographed them, printing
them as cibachromes.
In 1999, during a working period at the Rijksakademie
in Amsterdam I explored the image made un-clear,
with no definition or considered wrong or damaged
through painting, printing and photography. I painted
the images from old slides on red canvas and after
covering them with greenish veils of paint, scratched
them until the red showed through. The name of the
series is «who’s afraid of red?» hommaging Barnett
Newman’s work «who’s afraid of red, yellow and
blue?» and whose painting was badly damaged by a
maniac at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
I also did a series of silkscreens, «Infected images»,
using images from musty slides. I stressed the
damage on the surface, creating a relief through
etching similar to pimples or warts on human skin.
Rephotographing the slides on a white canvas with
someone under or over it, I intended to propose an
ambiguous surface to the images. The person appears
ghostly on the scene, altering the proportions and
straight lines of the photographic perspective. I am
planning to make light boxes with transparent film
only on the infected spots.
Related to a current master course at the University
of Sao Paulo, I am developping a different project.
It consists in creating a documentation of the work
of a fictitious artist who would have lived in Brazil
during the dictatorship years (late sixties, early seventies). His name is Marcelo do Campo and his work
consists of performances and ephemeral installations
having sex and vilence as the main theme. I have
started documenting two of his supposed performances through video and photography. As various
artists involved in politics fled Brazil during these
years (Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, Antonio Dias…)
some of Marcelo’s work could be developped in
Europe.
I would like to stress my difficulty in establishing a
well prepared and concrete working plan as I am
doing various researches and would like to let the
influences of a different environment act on them.
Dora Longo Bahia
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Dora Longo Bahia
17/01---04/03/2001
Born in São Paulo - SP, Brazil, 1961
(Brazil)
Education
[1987] BA in Visual Arts, FAAP - Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado,
São Paulo
Solo exhibitions
[2000] Crown Gallery, Bruxelas, Bélgica
Noname Gallery, Rotterdam, Holanda
[1998] Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
[1997] Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
[1996] Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
[1994] Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
[1993] Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
Pulitzer Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
[1991] Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
[1990] Pulitzer Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
[1989] Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
Group exhibitions-/-festivals
[2000] Imagem Experimental, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Taller Internacional de Artistas LA LLAMA, Fundación CELARG,
Caracas, Venezuela
[1999] Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten,
Amsterdam, Holand
[1998] VII Salão MAM – Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil
Horizonte Reflexivo, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14th International Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany
Inside Out - Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
O Cinema Cultural Paulista - Mostra do Audiovisual Paulista
Ano XI, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo
Exposition Collective, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Medidas de Si , Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo,
São Paulo; Instituto Itaú Cultural, Campinas, SP
Da Arte de Expor, Museu de arte Moderna de São Paulo, São
Paulo
[1997] 25 Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea de Belo Horizonte,
Centro Cultural da UFMG,Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
VI Salão MAM - Bahia, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia,
Salvador, BA, Brazil
A Gift to India, Rabindra Bhawan, New Delhi, India
5 Festival Mix Brasil da Diversidade Sexual 97, São Paulo
Festival Caribeño, Santiago, Cuba
VI Bienal de Havana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba
5 Festival de Cinema e Vídeo Cuiabá, Cuiabá, MS, Brazil
ARCO 97- Galeria Luisa Strina, Feira de Arte Contemporânea
de Madrid, Spain
[1996] Ouro de Artista, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
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(Dora Longo Bahia’s itinerary, continued)
IV Festival Mix Brasil da Diversidade Sexual 96, Espaço Unibanco
de Cinema, São Paulo
[1995] Basel Art Fair, Stand da Galeria Luisa Strina, Basel, Switzerland
[1994] 20 Anos de Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis
Chateaubriand, São Paulo
Caderno de Artista 2, Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Ainda a Figura, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São
Paulo
Basel Art Fair, Stand da Galeria Luisa Strina, Basel, Switzerland
Caderno de Artista, Livraria Belas Artes, São Paulo
Projeto Leonilson, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
[1993] Braziliaanse Kunstenaars, Pulitzer Art Gallery, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Mostra dos Selecionados, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
[1991] Imaginário Popular - Semana Euclidiana, Museu Rio-Pardense,
São José do Rio Pardo, SP, Brazil
[1990] Atelier da Vic - 27 Anos de Arte, Galeria ARS, ARTIS, São Paulo
Projeto Inaugural da Programação da Passagem da Consolação,
São Paulo
[1989] Coleção Particular de Eduardo Brandão, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
[1988] Flores, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
[1986] IV Salão de Arte Contemporânea, Pavilhão da Bienal de São Paulo
A Gráfica Contemporânea - Módulo IV IN-Formação, Espaço de
Exposições Humberto Tecidos, São Paulo
[1985] VIII Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Museu de Arte Moderna
do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
A Sinhazinha, o Mulato, o Negão e o Carrasco - desenhos,
gravuras, objetos, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo
Conexão Urbana II - Madame Satã, São Paulo
Conexão Urbana, FUNARTE, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Exposição/Eventos - Coletiva de Artistas, Salão Cultural da
FAAP, São Paulo
Tributo a Nosferatu - Um espetáculo gastronômico, Centro
Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
[1984] VI Mostra de Gravura de Curitiba - Pan-americana, Casa da
Gravura, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Performances /sets
[1996] Set for the dance performance HUID from Rose Akras,
Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
[1995] Set for the dance performance UIARA, from Rose Akras,
Stadsschouburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Set and sound track for the dance performance De Dragões e
Heróis, from Rose Akras and Reginaldo Dutra, Teatro Sergio
Cardoso, São Paulo
[1994] Performance - Disk Putas
Releasing of the video clip VAI COMER OU QUER QUE
EMBRULHE?, Cha Cha Cha, São Paulo
Releasing of the magazine Lúcifer, Blen Blen Club, São Paulo
CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais
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Energetic Zines 2, Secretaria do Estado da Cultura, São Paulo
Set and sound track for the dance performance Over Draken en
Helden, from Rose Akras and Reginaldo Dutra, Korzo theater,
Den Haag, RASA, Utrecht; Löss Theater, Maastricht; Julidans,
Amsterdam, Theater Kikker, Utrecht, The Netherlands
[1993] Performance - Disk Putas
Os Melhores da Noite Ilustrada, Columbia, São Paulo
Opening of Festival Mix Brasil, Columbia, São Paulo
[1992]
[1989]
[1986]
[1985]
[1984]
Set and sound track for the dance performance SANTAS,
from Rose Akras, Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Performance - Disk Putas
Aeroanta, São Paulo
Columbia, São Paulo
Der Tempel, São Paulo
Project Metropolitan Art Museu - Artists invited to paint trucks,
São Paulo
Nelson Leirner expõe Projeto Aula, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Tá pintando na Rua, Out-door, Avenida Sumaré, São Paulo
Set for the dance performance PERDIDOS PELO TEMPO, do
Grupo Marzipan, Teatro SESC Fábrica da Pompéia, São Paulo
Set for the dance performance ZÉ GATUNO, do Grupo Marzipan,
Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo
Art Performance Festival, Radar Tantã, São Paulo
CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais
rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
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dark photograph (to C.M.) - 1999
cibachrome (50 x 50 cm)
untitled - 2000
cibachrome (50 x 50 cm)
17/01---04/03/2001
who’s afraid of red ? - 1999
acrylic on canvas (180 x 180 cm)
untitled (infected images) - 2000
silk screen & etching on paper (45 x 45 cm)
untitled - 2000
cibachrome (50 x 50 cm)
CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais
rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
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Proposal
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17/01---04/03/2001
During my working period at the ECAV, I would like to explore images
of an unclear, blurred identity-: with no definition or considered
wrong through painting, printing or photography.
I would like also to stress my difficulty to establish a well prepared and
concrete work plan as I am also doing various researches with monoprints through cut supports (paper, parchement, leather), videos and
small embroideries and objects. I would like not only to take something
in progress from Brazil but also to let the different environment I will
be submitted to change my work.
I have had a period of great reflection upon my work and now I am
starting to do something that may arrive somewhere. I know that ECAV
has a wonderful orientation and, that, above all, is what appeals to me
the most-: to stimulate the reflection upon the artistic doing.
CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais
rue Bonne-Eau 16 – CH-3960 Sierre – T-: +41 27 456 55 11 – F-: +41 27 456 55 30 – E-: [email protected] – [email protected] – http://www.ecav.ch
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Projet et workshop
« Quand les attitudes déforment les altitudes » Le workshop animé par l’artiste avait pour objectif
de questionner le statut de l’oeuvre de l’art et la
véracité de la documentation artistique par le biais
d’une enquête sur la tradition artistique suisse.
Depuis la moitié des années soixante, des
changements fondamentaux se sont produits
dans les comportements humains. Différents
mouvements parmi lesquels on peut mentionner
les mouvements estudiantin, féministe, socialiste
et pacifique ont altéré la manière de percevoir et
d’interpréter le monde. La dénommée « nouvelle
avant-garde » des années soixante et septante
a réactualisé des moyens artistiques alternatifs
propres aux avant-gardes des années vingt performance, techniques d’impression, collage
- afin de mettre en question des principes établis
relatifs à l’art et à la vie.
Le travail proposé consistait à mener en groupe
une enquête sur des questions toujours pertinentes
mises en exergue lors de cette période d’intenses
transformations conceptuelles, sociales et politiques
- 1965-1975 -. Il s’agissait concrètement de produire
une documentation fictionnelle sur un événement
situé dans une période déterminée en passant par
les étapes suivantes :
- recherche conceptuelle, iconographique et
esthétique sur les années 1965-1975;
- documentation vidéophonique et photographique
sur un événement - « happening » - qui se
déroulerait à Sierre;
- développement et montage des images sur la
base d’une révision des modèles esthétiques de
l’époque;
- exposition publique du travail.
L’artiste présente ainsi sa démarche :
« Le film « Quand les attitudes déforment les
altitudes » estle produit d’une action collective qui
a été réalisée par les artistes du groupe « FOEHN »
entre le 22 mars et le 27 avril 1969.
L’action collective « Quand les attitudes déforment
les altitudes »s’est produite parallèlement à
l’exposition « Quand les attitudes deviennent forme
» organisée par Harald Szeeman à la Kunsthalle de
Berne en 1969.
Durant toute la période de l’exposition (22 mars
au 27 avril 1969), Poisson Urbain, Migrolina Rose,
Robert Camile Udriot, Marcelo do Campo, Noé
Solog, Carlton W.R.S., Curupira, Klara Gama, Zoé
Call et les intégrantes de l’Exaspérante Production
ont résidé dans un bunker de carton qu’ils
avaient eux-mêmes construit. Les jeunes artistes
voulaient manifester sur le mode ironique contre
la conservation de valeurs obsolètes liées à l’art
et/ou à la vie, en révélant la fragilité des soi-disant
protections et le danger de l’isolement volontaire.
MANIFESTO
Pourquoi foehner?
Parce que le contexte est fondamental pour la
compréhension de l’oeuvre d’art.
Parce que la spécificité du temps et de l’espace sont
des éléments constitutifs de la formalisation de
l’oeuvre d’art.
Parce que le rapport entre temps - espace - oeuvre
- spectateur est l’essence même de l’oeuvre d’art.
Parce que le temps et l’espace sont des abstractions
relatives.
Parce que l’oeuvre d’art n’existe qu’en tant que tel.
Parce que le présent sans présentation est illisible
et invisible.
Parce que toute représentation est impossible.
Parce que l’oeuvre d’art doit être originelle.
Parce que l’artiste est à l’origine de l’oeuvre d’art.
Parce que l’oeuvre d’art n’existe pas.
Parce que l’artiste n’existe pas non plus et que ce
fait est irréversible. »
Dora Longo Bahia
Les différentes vidéos réalisées lors du workshop
ont été présentées au Forum d’Art Contemporain
de Sierre (FAC) le 9 mars 2001.
Le Front Ordinaire pour une Esthétique Helvétique
Neutre (FOEHN) a été constitué au milieu de l’année
1968 par un groupe de jeunes artistes résidant en
Suisse
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A bout de souffle - 2001
Marcelo Do Campo
Sans titre - 2001
Zoe Call
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Sans titre - 2001
Migrolina Rose
Sans titre - 2001
poisson urbain
Sans titre - 2001
Curupira
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Quand les attitudes déforment les altitudes - 2001
Film produit par le groupe FOEHN (Front Ordinaire pour une Esthétique Helvétique Neutre)
CRIC – Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais
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