Exercícios de olhar
By: [organizaçao Jorge Schwartz e Marcelo Monzani ; textos Jorge Schwartz, Jean-Claude Bernadet, André Toral ; curadoria Aracy Amaral]
Contributors: Museu Lasar Segall
Publisher: Imprensa Oficial do Estado; Museu Lasar Segall
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sao Paulo
Language: por
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9788562930119
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions; Themes, motives; Brazilian Art
Description: "Eye Exercises" comprises 37 works by 32 artists, from different periods and trends in the history of Brazilian art. The exhibition features paintings, prints and drawings belonging to private collections and holdings of museums in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Curator, art historian and former Director of the Pinacoteca Aracy Amaral selected works from the late 19th century to contemporary times with emphasis on works from the modernist period, always focusing on the unusual theme of the back of the human figure. "This focus angle - the omission of the front figure - forces the viewer to find out what is on the other side". The catalogue spans from the academic and Classic approach of Rodolfo Amoedo and Eliseu Visconti and their figures close to sensuality to the arrival of modernism and includes art by cubists Candido Portinari and Vicente do Rego Monteiro, expressionists Oswaldo Goeldi and Lasar Segall and futurist Anita Malfatti. Only one photograph is part of this collection, as a differentiated counterpoint for its visual impact, taken by Saul Nicolai (1992), "Inside ourself" (2011), the back of young man facing the dense and compact urban landscape of Rio de Janeiro.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held July 14 to October 21st., 2012 at the Museu Lasar Segall in Sao Paulo.

Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Apresentaçao. Figuras de costas / Jorge Schwartz; title: Exercícios de olhar / Aracy Amaral; title: De costas em uma tradiçao figurativa / André Toral; title: A síndrome de Eurícide / Jean-Claude Bernadet.