JONATHAS DE ANDRADE 'POSTERS FOR THE MUSEUM OF THE NORTHEAST MAN' AT KUNSTHALLE LISSABON, LISBOA

Jonathas de Andrade, Posters for the Museum of the Northeast Man, at Kunsthalle Lissabon





Jonathas de Andrade, Posters for the museum of the northeast man, 2013
installation views, 60 posters, display supports, documentation

newspapers adds requesting men to be photographed for the posters of the museum





Jonathas de Andrade, Homem do Nordeste, photographed by Susana Pomba


press release:
Jonathas de Andrade:
cartazes para o museu do homem do nordeste | posters for the museum of the northeast man

Kunsthalle Lissabon
21.06.2013 | 17.08.2013

Posters for the museum of the northeast man is not only Jonathas de Andrade's first solo show in Portugal, but also in Europe. Departing from the "Museu do Homem do Nordeste", an ethnographic museum created in Recife, Andrade's hometown, in the late 70's by sociologist and writer Gilberto Freyre, the exhibition will present a series of hypothetical posters for the museum.

Through approaching working class men on the streets of Recife or by placing ads on the local newspapers requesting men to be photographed for the posters of the museum, Jonathas de Andrade has established an ambivalent relation with both the men and the identity they were asked to portray, through the anthropophagous and eroticized gaze of the camera lens. The posters depicting men in different daily activities try to explore, question and reassess the issues behind the construction of a regional identity, that of the north-easterner Brazilian, and its present-day meaning/relevance.

The exhibition will also feature a new publication conceived by the artist, referring to the exhibition but existing beyond it, as an autonomous object, in which the research and the process leading to the show will be further debated. It is co-published by Kunsthalle Lissabon, Tijuana and Mousse magazine.

Jonathas de Andrade (Recife, 1982) lives and works in Recife, Brazil and is, despite his young age, one of the most internationally visible Brazilian artists. A selection of his solo shows include Nostalgia, a class sentiment (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2013), 4000 Disparos (Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, 2013), Tropical Hangover (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2010 and Instituto Cultural Banco Real, Recife, 2009) and Love and Happiness in Marriage (Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, 2008; Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, 2007 and Instituto Furnas Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, 2007). His work has been featured in the following group shows (selection): The Right to the City (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2013), The Ungovernables (New Museum Triennial, 2012), Mythologies (Cité International des Arts, Paris, 2012), 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), 32o Panorama da Arte Brasileira (MAM, São Paulo, 2011), Sharjah Biennal 10 (2011), 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), 7th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2009). de Andrade was recently a resident artist at Gasworks, London and at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo. He was nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012, having been one of the winners of the special prize.

Kunsthalle Lissabon is supported by Secretaria de Estado da Cultura/Direção Geral das Artes (DGArtes) and by Teixeira de Freitas, Rodrigues e Associados. Jonathas de Andrade's exhibition is also generously supported by the Moraes-Barbosa Collection and by Vermelho Gallery, who represents the artist.

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WILFREDO PRIETO 'LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS' AT KUNSTHALLE LISSABON

Wilfredo Prieto, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus at Kunsthalle Lissabon





Wilfredo Prieto
Paisagem com a queda de Ícaro
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Kunsthalle Lissabon
10.02.2011 | 19.03.2011

Kunsthalle Lissabon is proud to present, for the first time in Portugal, the work of Barcelona-based Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto. Prieto's work reveals a critical position resulting from the discrete modification of everyday objects. These subtle interventions result in an image in which the artistic gesture becomes almost invisible and political issues are often addressed. Even though the artist doesn't aim at entertaining the viewer, humor often becomes an important part of his practice, not as a goal in itself, but rather as the result of his critical distance or the unconventional relation established with the topics or media he chooses to approach.

In Landscape with the fall of Icarus, his new project for Kunsthalle Lissabon, Prieto reinterprets in an ironic, yet playful manner, the homonym painting until recently attributed to Pieter Bruegel. In Greek mythology, Icarus succeeded in flying, with wings made by his father Daedalus, using feathers secured with wax. Ignoring his father's warnings, Icarus chose to fly too close to the sun, melting the wax, and fell into the sea and drowned. In the painting, his legs can still be seen in the water, as he struggles not to drown. Wilfredo Prieto thus departs from the work of Bruegel to explore and reflect upon the idea of landscape, its connection to reality and its relevance as a privileged discipline in Art History. Landscape with the fall of Icarus will take place outside Kunsthalle Lissabon's physical space, in Praça da Alegria, an iconic square in central Lisbon.

Wilfredo Prieto was born in Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba, in 1978. He lives and works in La Havana, Cuba and Barcelona, Spain. Having graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, Cuba, some of his recent solo shows include Atado a la pata de la mesa, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, Spain (2011); Negro, Mate, Seco, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain (2010); Mountain, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium (2008); Dead angle (Lost Bills), Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (2006); Mute, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada (2006); Mucho ruido y pocas nueces II (a lot of noise and a few nuts), MUSAC, Leon, Spain (2005). His work was featured in several group shows, namely Lisson presents 4, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (2009); Stowaways, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA (2009); That Was Then... This Is Now, PS1 MOMA, New York, USA (2008); Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2008). Prieto also participated in several biennials such as the 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, Thesaloniki Biennial, I Singapore Biennial and the VIII, IX and X editions of the Havana Biennial and Biennale Cuvée, Linz in 2009. He was awarded with The Cartier Foundation Award in 2008. Wilfredo Prieto is represented by Nogueras Blanchard.

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