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Based on the possibility of creation through affection, the artists Marcelo Amorim and Nino Cais presented Poema a dois/Cartas queimadas at FONTE, an independent art space they founded in 2013. With an interlocution and text by the curator Ana Roman, the exhibition proposes reflections on the male body and its relations of approximation and distance between violence and love.
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BÁRBARA PAZ
CARTAS QUEIMADAS, 2021VIDEO,
58"
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The group exhibition is based on concerns of the artists who have built a relationship of friendship and collaboration over 15 years ago. "The complexity of this relationship is identifiable both in the convergence between themes present in the artists' work, and in common work procedures, which involve appropriating and dissecting images, and facing a kind of pedagogy about the male body and about the masculinities that exist in them. When I was invited to be an interlocutor for the artists in the exhibition, I proposed to weave a kind of common narrative, in which the two poetics come closer and farther apart”, says Roman.
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NINO CAIS
FAUNO, 2021
STEEL RING, HOE AND SHIRT
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Inspired by Canção de amor, by Jean Genet, which tells the story of a romance between two prisoners who try to communicate through the wall that divides their cells, actress and filmmaker Bárbara Paz produced the video Cartas queimadas (2021). Directed by the artist duo, the film is an analogy to the studio space where Marcelo and Nino work together, and also to the confinement imposed by the pandemic. The video is composed of an excerpt of the feature film still in process that Paz has been drawing collectively with other visual artists.
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NINO CAIS
UNTITLED, 2021
THREAD, SCARF AND SHELLS
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Using appropriate materials, the works presented converge to a certain questioning around the construction and historical place of the male. Artist Nino Cais shows some of his unique sculpture objects and the series brincos, composed of images of earrings overlaid by photographs of male nudes. Marcelo Amorim, in turn, presents the series Indefesos (2021) and Trote (2021), both created from images in which the male body is (or was) subjected to situations of naturalized violence within the construction of a certain perspective on masculinity.
Seeking to create contexts and provocations for this new stage of FONTE, the exhibition is part of an ongoing project that highlights homo-affectivities in order to promote the circulation of works and research, affectionate and practical approaches on the subject.
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NINO CAIS
CHORÃO, 2021
WOODEN CABINET AND GLASS,
STEEL CABLES, KNIVES AND CUTS
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NINO CAIS
SEBASTIANE, 2021
EXCERPT FROM SEBASTIANE FILM, BY DEREK JARMAN, PROJECTED ON RULER
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NINO CAIS
SEBASTIANE, 2021
EXCERPT FROM THE SEBASTIANE FILM DEREK JARMAN DESIGNED ON RULER
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NINO CAIS
UNTITLED, 2021
ASSEMBLY WITH PIECES OF
OLD FURNITURE, CEMENT,
DISHES AND SHELL
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NINO CAIS
BESTA, 2021
ASSEMBLY WITH PIECES OF
OLD FURNITURE, CHAIR,
BOOM TIP, FABRIC AND STONE
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NINO CAIS
UNTITLED (EARRINGS SERIES), 2021
INK JET PRINTING ON COTTON PAPER
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NINO CAIS
UNTITLED, 2021
ASSEMBLY WITH PIECES OF
OLD FURNITURE
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MARCELO AMORIM SÚPLICA, 2021
2’53”
EDITION OF 5
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Nino Cais
(São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil, 1969).Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. The artist appropriates of daily use objects and gives them a new sense in another context, representing its elements in a new configuration. His works are developed in a suspended time and space, recognizable by the viewer, although not very observed by them. He proposes strangeness at the same time welcoming. The artist has presented solo exhibitions at Fridman Gallery, New York, USA [2018]; Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil [2017]; Central Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil [2015]; and Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina [2015]. Among his group exhibition we highlight: Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, Johnfoy College, New York, USA [2020]; O que meu corpo sabe: fotografias em fricção nas coleções EAV Parque Lage/Memória Parque Lage, Visual Art School of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2019]; Waving and Wavering, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA [2018]; Ação e Reação, Casa do Brasil, Cultural Department of The Brazilian Embassy, Madrid, Spain [2018]; and Queermuseu: cartografias da diferença na arte brasileira, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brazil [2017]. His works are part of public collection such: Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; among others.
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Marcelo Amorim
(Goiânia, Brasil, 1977).Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. His research convers historic information at the same time lost and suppressed, with the aim to transform it once more presents physically. Thus, he reveals cultural values and its evolution over time. The artist has presented solo exhibitions in Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil [2019]; Sem título Arte, Fortaleza, Brazil [2018]; Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil [2016]; Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil [2014]; Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil [2012]; Galeria Oscar Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil [2010]; and Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil [2008]. Among his group exhibition we highlight: Dizer não, Ateliê397, São Paulo, Brazil [2021]; Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, Johnfoy College, New York, USA [2020]; Memória seletiva, Galeria Aymoré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2019]; 3:1 - Marcelo Amorim, Nino Cais e Simone Moraes, Instituto Leo Romano, Goiânia, Brazil [2019]; Pieces of landscape, Profoundation, New York, USA [2018]; Ação e Reação, Casa do Brasil, The Embassy of Brazil, Madrid, Spain [2018]; Scapeland: território de trânsito livre, Galeria Marta Traba, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo, Brazil [2018]; Habita-me, Palacete 1922, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil [2018]; Que barra!, Ateliê397, São Paulo, Brazil [2018]; São Paulo não é uma cidade: invenções do centro, SESC 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil [2018]; A luz que vela o corpo é a mesma que revela a tela, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [2017]; synchroniCITIES: BXL/SP, Casa do Brazil, Brussels, Belgium [2017]; Library of Love, Contemporary Art Center, Cinciannati, USA [2017]; and Cura 2015, Galeria Artes Solar Santo Antônio, Porto, Portugal [2015]. He was awarded at the Salão Nacional de Artes de Itajaí, Brazil [2012]. His works are part of public collection such: Fundação Cultural de Itajaí, Itajaí, Brazil; Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto; Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, among others.
Marcelo Amorim is represented by Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil.
