ALFÂNDEGA
PAULO NAZARETH
Solo Exhibition
Opening
June 12th, 5pm
Date
June 12th to July 20th
Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 r/c, 1170-112 Lisbon
Ground floor / Gallery
Free entry
CAM, LA COOPERATIVE D’IMMIGRATION is a work in progress, a project that is already an event between north and south. __in its raw reality CAM is an archive that grows over time, it can be seen as an installation, a performance, a work in progress [work in progress, as the Anglophones call it] art of behaviour, ARTE PRECEITO / ARTE DE PRECEITO [as PNAC/ LTDA is currently saying] an event . — the work is materialised with boxes-folders of files, in short the work is a workshop that generates other works, _ in this way it comes close to the BUREAU-X DE LANGUE [ another project carried out by the artist, about learning the language of others and teaching them his own], a process of uninterrupted infinitude and at the same time drifting —— as a process, the most important thing is that the ‘WELCOME’ series is already underway, a collection of posters and pamphlets that prophesise a good welcome are installed in the exhibition space and can be taken by the public, who leave their money in a specific container to reproduce the same prints.
_ Alfandega (Customs) is the work that gives its title to the exhibition by pindoramic artist Paulo Nazareteh, which takes place in Lisbon / Portugal. The piece consists of a box of paper transported by commercial plane from Confins International Airport to Lisbon International Airport, __ its contents are the air exhaled by the artist’s lungs into a transparent plastic bag in Alto do Palmital in Santa Luzia in the middle of the old Estrada Real, which used to transport gold and other resources from Minas Gerais in Brazil to the ports of the Portuguese Metropole.
Paulo Nazareth (born in 1977, Governador Valadares, Brasil) resides in Minas Gerais, Brasil when he is not travelling.
Significant solo exhibitions include The Power Plant, Toronto and Pivô, São Paulo (both 2022); ICA Miami (2019); Rockefeller Center (2019); Art Unlimited (Basel, 2017), Tanzhaus Düsseldorf (2016); Galleria Franco Noero (Turin, 2014), Institute for Contemporary Arts (London, 2014) and Museu de Arte de Pampulha (Belo Horizonte, 2018).
Exemplary group shows took place at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Pinault Collection, Tourcoing, France (2022), Kunstverein Hannover (2020), San José Museum of Art (2018), Museum Folkwang (2016), Musée d’art contemporain Lyon (2014), New Museum (New York, 2013), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2011). Biennale appearances include 34th Bienal de São Paulo, 22nd Biennale of Sydney, RAY Foto-Triennale 2018, 55th and 56th Biennale di Venezia (2013/2015) and International Video-Performance Art Festival (Tallinn, 2005).
Paulo Nazareth was awarded the MASP de Artes Visuais Prize in 2012, Prêmio 12º Salão Nacional de Arte de Itajtai in 2010, and Bolsa Papumlha – 28º Salão de Arte de Belo Horizon in 2004/2005. His works are present in many public and private collections such as Boros Collection, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Pinault Collection, Coleção Banco Itaú, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Rubell Family Collection, Tate, MASP and Pérez Art Museum Miami.
