Title: Princípio ativo
Description: The book documents the trajectory of artist Rubens Mano (São Paulo, Brazil 1960) and brings together a significant part of his artistic production and actions, along with an essay by researcher Aline Dias and small texts written by the artist and that accompany images of his works. Rubens Mano is a multi-media artist considered one of the greatest exponents of contemporary art in Brazil -winner of awards such as the Art and Heritage Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil and who has exhibited in venues in Japan, the United States, France, Switzerland, Australia, Portugal, among others- and the creator of important urban actions such as: "Detector de ausencias" (São Paulo, 1994), "Vaciadores" (São Paulo, 2002) and "Confinesdememoria" (Portugal, 2017). Manos graduated in Architecture and Urbanism (1984), at FAU/Santos, where he also began his studies in photography. Since then, correspondence between image and space have become the conceptual plot that underlies his project as an artist. During the preparation of his master's degree in visual poetics (2003), at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes of the Universidade de São Paulo (ECA/USP), he formulated the concept of "interval", an action that settles in the fissures of the regimes of alteration and transformation of spaces, and which proposes a resignification of the constitutive dimensions of the 'place of action' related to norms and flows that regulate the urban sphere. "The action "ConfinesdeMemoria" (confinesofmemory) had it beginning with the discovery of five cars -used by agents of the New State [Portugal]- abandoned inside a space transformed into a garage, under the guard of the Portuguese Army, and the realization that the place was connected by a passage to a cistern in the Mosteiro de Santa Clara-a-Nova, which had held a large quantity of water for years (as if to indicate symbolic density in the contention of time and memory)" --Page 11.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Catalogs, Installations (Art), Brazilian Art, Artistic Photography
Places: Portugal, Coimbra, Brazil
People: Rubens Mano (1960-)
Time periods: 21st century