Rubem Valentim
Subtitle: Afro-Atlantic constructions
By: edited by Adriano Pedrosa, Fernando Oliva ; curated by Fernando Oliva ; texts by Abigail Lapin Dardashti [and sixteen others]
Contributors: Pedrosa, Adriano, editor; Oliva, Fernando, editor, curator, contributor; Lapin Dardashti, Abigail, contributor; Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
Publisher: MASP
Published: 2001
Place of publication: São Paulo, Brazil]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9788531000546
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Afro-Atlantic constructions; Rubem Valentim: Construções afro-atlânticas; Construções afro-atlânticas.
Description: Construcoes afro-atlanticas [Afro-Atlantic Constructions] reproduces 99 artworks by the painter, sculptor and engraver Rubem Valentim's (Salvador, Brazil, 1922 - Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1991), a key figure in 20th century Brazilian art and Afro-Atlantic Histories. From the 1950s onward, Valentim incorporated the language of geometric abstraction to create complex compositions that redesigned and reconfigured Afro-Atlantic symbols, emblems and references. In this process, Valentim transformed the European artistic languages that dominated most of the art production in Brazil and worldwide during the 1950-60s (geometric abstraction, constructivism and concretism), blending them with African references, mostly through drawings and diagrams representing the deities of Afro-Brazilian religions-known as orishas-such as Shango's double-edged axe, Oshoosi's arrow and Osanyin's rods.
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition "Rubem Valentim: Construções afro-atlânticas (Afro-Atlantic Constructions) held at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), November 14, 2018 -- March 10, 2019.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Itaú Cultural; title: Rubem Valentim at MASP / Adriano Pedrosa; title: Art, politics and construction in Rubem Valentim / Fernando Oliva; title: Transatlantic constructions: Rubem Valentim and African art at the British Museum, 1964-66 / Abigail Lapin Dardashti; title: Albeit late, but in the eve -Rubem Valentim and time / Roberto Conduru; title: The return and confirmation of Rubem Valentim / Lisette Lagnada; title: Rubem Valentim: art as synthesis / Hélio Menezes and Lila Moritz Schwarcz; title: Rubem Valentim and the Afro-Atlantic ethos / Renata Bittencourt; title: The crossroads of Rubem Valentim / Marta Mestre; title: Rubem Valentim / Giulio Carlo Argan, 1966; title: The contemporaneity of Rubem Valentim / Mario Pedrosa, 1967; title: The rhythm of rite of the super-semiotic art of Rubem Valentim / José Guilherme Merquior, 1974; title: The pioneering of Rubem Valentim in Brazilian semiotic art / Clarival Do Prado Valladares, 1975; title: O Manifesto, albeit late / Ruben Valentin, 1976; title: Rubem Valentim / Roberto Pontual, 1977; title: Statement to Bené Fonteles, 1989-90; title: "He dis not separate ethics from art" A conversation with Bené Fonteles about Rubem Valentim / Fernando Oliva.