Bart Lodewijks
Subtitle: Rio de Janeiro drawings
By: text and photography, Bart Lodewijks
Series: Roma publication -- 271; ROMA publication -- 271.
Publisher: Roma Publications
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: por
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789491843655
Subjects: Catalogs; Chalk drawing; Street photography; Pictorial works
Other titles: Rio de Janeiro drawings :; Vida cotidiana na vizinhança entre Santa Cristina e Benjamin Constant =; Vida cotidiana na vizinhança entre Santa Cristina e Benjamin Constant; Everyday life in the neighbourhood between Santa Cristina and Benjamin Constant
Description: The work of Dutch artist Bart Lodewijks takes him out of the studio and into the city, its streets and neighbourhoods. His enigmatic yet beautiful repetitions of straight chalk lines, drawn using a spirit level on walls, buildings, stairways, and sidewalks, are a fleeting testament to the challenges and interactions the artist experiences during his working process. In 2010 and 2013, Lodewijks spent some months in Rio de Janeiro, searching for suitable locations for his drawings. Local residents led him to places that were scenes of everyday life, mundane yet with a special character. Much of the time he frequented a small favela, about which he has written a story relating the life he discovered there.
Notes: Texts in Portuguese and English.