Artur Barrio

Artur Barrio (* 1945 in Porto ) is a Portuguese - Brazilian concept , performance and installation artist .

life and work

In 1952, Artur Barrio's father emigrated with his young family via the then Portuguese colony of Angola to Rio de Janeiro in 1955 in order not to have to continue living under the Estado Novo . Artur Barrio studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes with Onofre Penteado, Abelardo Zaluar (1924–1980), Mário Barata (1921–2007) and Ítalo Campofiorito (* 1933) and developed his artistic work with knowledge of the art movements Dadaism , Fluxus , Situationist International , Viennese Actionism , Japanese Gutai Group and Conceptual Art.

Barrio belongs to the generation of Brazilian artists, like Waltércio Caldas , José Resende , Tunga and Cildo Meireles , who went public with their works after the fall of the government in 1964 during the period of the military dictatorship . In 1974, during the Carnation Revolution against the dictatorship in Portugal, he returned there. In 1975 he moved to Paris and in 1981 to Amsterdam . He currently lives in Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence and Rio de Janeiro.

In 1969 Barrio wrote an essay that is the theoretical foundation for his art and his use of materials. In his manifesto / manifesto he speaks out against all art institutions, including art criticism, that understand the concept of art as a cycle of creativity and capital accumulation and turn it into a capitalist object. He wants to revive the emotionality that jumps from the artist to the viewer and irritates both.

“My work is related to a subjective / objective body / mind situation; I see this relationship as a thing in itself, since it triggers an energetic process that intensifies psycho-organic situations that involve the viewer and thus leads to a stronger participation in the work shown. "

- Artur Barrio

The material value of his art is very low. Barrio mainly works with materials that are traditionally rarely used as art materials, such as animal blood, cables, blankets, meat, bread, cut fingernails, saliva, urine, feces, nasal secretions, bones, used and unused toilet paper, sanitary napkins, leftover food, ink, negatives from films, soiled cotton towels, damp paper towels, sawdust, coffee grounds et cetera.

4 slides 4 noites / 4 days 4 nights

In May 1970, Barrio walked for four days and four nights with no breaks to rest, sleep, or eat, with no planned route or destination. There are no recordings of this performance , only the memory of this borderline experience from Barrio himself.

Situação T / T1 / Situation T / T1

In 1970 the artist distributed around 500 bloody bundles of soiled blankets filled with meat, bones, animal blood and excrement around Rio de Janeiro. Not in the poorer areas, where corpses and blood were nothing unusual at the time, but where those live who hardly dealt with the political grievances. Cesar Carneiro took up the action.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1981, 1983, 1985, 1996, 1998, 2004 and 2010 Biennial of São Paulo , São Paulo
• 2000 Museu Serralves , Porto
• 2002 Documenta 11 , Kassel
• 2005 Palais de Tokyo , Paris
• 2008 Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
• 2011 54th Biennale di Venezia , Brazilian Pavilion

literature

• Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles by Claudia Calirman, Duke University Press Books, 2012

Web links

• artsy Artur Barrio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Artnet Artur Barrio accessed on August 19, 2015 (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} ArtReview Artur Barrio accessed on August 18, 2012 (English)
3. ↑ New York Times, Roberta Smith Walking on Coffee, Trying to Get a Fix on a Master of Impermanence, accessed on August 18, 2015.
4. ↑ Documenta11 Platform5: Exhibition catalog, page 30; Ostfildern-Ruit 2002 ISBN 3-7757-9085-3 (German)
5. ↑ arte aldia, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti Artur Barrio poetic Terrorism1 accessed on August 18, 2012 (English)
6. ↑ Do objeto para o mundo Artur Barrio ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 18, 2012 
7. ↑ Cornell Claudia Calirman: Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles, accessed on August 19, 2015 (English)