CAPACETE - Rogério Duarte

CAPACETE im Portikus ist zusammengestellt von Helmut Batista, Begründer des Research- und Atelierprogramms „CAPACETE Entertainments“ in Rio de Janeiro und São Paulo. Die Ausstellung versammelt vielfältige Stimmen aus der 16-jährigen Aktivität und reflektiert anhand für den Portikus entwickelter neuer Arbeiten diese einzigartige Geschichte. Gleichzeitig bietet das Projekt einen vielschichtigen Kommentar zur gegenwärtigen Situation in Brasilien selbst. Die Ausstellung zielt auf die „Kannibalisierung“ der brasilianischen Kultur ab – im Hinblick auf Aspekte und Klischees der tief im kulturellen Diskurs Brasiliens verankerten Phänomene Anthropophagia undTropicalismo – und hinterfragt damit die paradoxen Aspekte des heutigen wirtschaftlichen und politischen Status quo im Land.

Vor kurzem musste CAPACETE aufgrund lokaler Mittelkürzungen einen Teil seiner Aktivitäten einstellen. Da die Stadt Frankfurt in diesem Jahr Brasilien als Gastland der Frankfurter Buchmesse begrüßt, lud der Portikus Helmut Batista ein und gab die Rolle des Gastgebers somit direkt an einen brasilianischen Kulturschaffenden zurück. Damit ist CAPACETE seinerseits in der Lage, das kulturelle Kapital des transnationalen Megaereignisses Buchmesse zu „kannibalisieren“ und sich gleichzeitig in die Struktur des Portikus einzuschreiben.

Für die Ausstellung drehten Helmut Batista und der Künstler Amilcar Packer den Film Ecstatic. Die Aufnahmen wurden aus einem Hubschrauber gemacht, der das erst vor kurzem restaurierte Markenzeichen Brasiliens, die Christusfigur in Rio de Janeiro, umkreist. Das Gegenstück dazu ist Alexandre Voglers Installation Gira im Hauptausstellungs- raum, die durch Zweige der Heilpflanze ruta graveolens(Weinraute), montiert auf großen, rotierenden Trägern, an spirituelle Traditionen aus Brasilien erinnert. Der intensive Duft der Pflanze durchzieht auch Voglers PerformanceFumacê – ein Rauchfass zur Vertreibung böser Geister. Während einer Performance fährt der Künstler mit seinemFumacê auf einem Fahrrad durch Frankfurt und räuchert den Portikus und die Stadt von bösen Dämonen aus. Zwei Konzerte, das eine mit dem Künstler Arto Lindsay und das andere mit dem Multi-Instrumentalisten Siri, ergänzen die performativen Aspekte der Ausstellung. Beide Konzerte werden jeweils zu temporären Soundtracks des Films von Batista und Packer, der hinter den Musikern projiziert ist. Ein weiterer Bestandteil der Ausstellung ist ein neuer Text der Autorin und Kuratorin Daniela Castro, in dem sie anhand von Aspekten der Anthropophagia eine dystopische Vision für Brasilien entwirft.

Die Galerie im Obergeschoss ist einer umfassenden Präsentation der Arbeit des brasilianischen Designers, Dichters, Musikers, Malers und Autors Rogério Duarte gewidmet. Duarte ist eine zentrale Figur der Künstlerbewegung Tropicália, deren Ursprünge in den 1960er Jahren liegen. Sein großer Einfluss auf die Bildsprache dieser Bewegung zeigt sich in seiner langen Zusammenarbeit mit Zeitgenossen wie Gilberto Gil, Glauber Rocha, Hélio Oiticica und Caetano Veloso. Präsentiert wird eine Auswahl seines Werks – Plakate, Plattencover, Bücher und andere Objekte – sowie die neue Monografie Marginália 1, die vom Designer Manuel Raeder und der Künstlerin Mariana Castillo Deball in vierjähriger Arbeit entwickelt wurde. BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE und der Portikus haben diesen ersten Gesamtüberblick über Duartes Werk aus Anlass dieser Ausstellung veröffentlicht. CAPACETE at Portikus is organized by Helmut Batista, the founder of the research-based residency program "CAPACETE Entertainments", which is based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The exhibition brings together multiple voices from its rich sixteen-year-long activity. Expanding on CAPACETE’s involvement in the field of cultural production in Brazil, the exhibition at Portikus features new work that will reflect on this unique history while also creating a multi-layered commentary on the current situation in Brazil. The project aims at “cannibalizing” Brazil’s very own culture—drawing on aspects as well as clichés ofAnthropophagia and Tropicalismo, both deeply rooted in Brazilian cultural discourse—and thus raises questions around paradoxical aspects of the country’s economical and political status quo today.

CAPACETE was recently forced to discontinue part of its activities due to insufficient local financial support. Seeing that the city of Frankfurt is hosting Brazil as its guest of honor at this year’s Book Fair, Portikus invited Helmut Batista and handed over the role of host back to a Brazilian cultural producer. This allows CAPACETE to "cannibalize" cultural capital that emerges from a transnational hyper-event, and inscribe itself in the existing structure at Portikus.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Helmut Batista and artist Amilcar Packer produced a new film titled Ecstatic. The film was shot from a helicopter circling a Brazilian landmark, the recently restored monumental statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. As a counterpart, Alexandre Vogler’s Gira is installed in the main exhibition space. Using branches of the medicinal herb ruta graveolens mounted on large, rotating devices, he evokes ancestral and spiritual traditions from Brazil. The intense scent of the herb is further enhanced by Vogler’s performance Fumacê, which is a mobile censer that smokes out its surroundings to cast out any evil spirits. The artist will mount his Fumacê on a bicycle and exorcise Portikus and the rest of the city. Two concerts complement the performative aspect of the show: one by the artist Arto Lindsay and the other by the multi-instrumentalist Siri. Both performances function as one-off soundtracks to Batista and Packer’s film, which is screened as a backdrop to the stage. Another piece in the exhibition is a newly commissioned text by the writer and curator Daniela Castro in which she draws on notions of Anthropophagia to create a dystopian scenario for Brazil.

The upstairs gallery is dedicated to a comprehensive presentation of the work of Brazilian designer, poet, musician, artist, and author Rogério Duarte. Duarte is a pivotal figure in the artistic movement known as Tropicália, which has its origins in the late 1960s. His huge influence on the imagery and visual language of this movement is reflected in his long-term collaborations with contemporaries such as Gilberto Gil, Glauber Rocha, Hélio Oiticica, and Caetano Veloso. A selection of his work, including posters, record covers, books, and other objects will be presented alongside his new monographic publication Marginália 1. The book was developed by the designer Manuel Raeder and the artist Mariana Castillo Deball over a period of four years. It is the first in-depth survey of Duarte’s practice, and is published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE and Portikus on the occasion of this exhibition.

Die Ausstellung ist Teil des brasilianischen Kulturprogramms anlässlich des Gastlands Brasilien der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2013 und wurde ermöglicht durch die Unterstützung von FUNARTE, dem brasilianischen Kulturministerium und dem brasilianischen Außenministerium.

Künstler: Rogério Duarte, Arto Lindsay, Siri, Manuel Raeder, Daniela Castro, Alexandre Vogler, DJ Lonely, Baba Electronica, Amilcar Packer and Helmut Batista

- press release:

APACETE at Portikus is organized by Helmut Batista, the founder of the research-based residency program "CAPACETE Entertainments", which is based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The exhibition brings together multiple voices from its rich sixteen-year-long activity. Expanding on CAPACETE’s involvement in the field of cultural production in Brazil, the exhibition at Portikus features new work that will reflect on this unique history while also creating a multi-layered commentary on the current situation in Brazil. The project aims at “cannibalizing” Brazil’s very own culture—drawing on aspects as well as clichés ofAnthropophagia and Tropicalismo, both deeply rooted in Brazilian cultural discourse—and thus raises questions around paradoxical aspects of the country’s economical and political status quo today.

CAPACETE was recently forced to discontinue part of its activities due to insufficient local financial support. Seeing that the city of Frankfurt is hosting Brazil as its guest of honor at this year’s Book Fair, Portikus invited Helmut Batista and handed over the role of host back to a Brazilian cultural producer. This allows CAPACETE to "cannibalize" cultural capital that emerges from a transnational hyper-event, and inscribe itself in the existing structure at Portikus.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Helmut Batista and artist Amilcar Packer produced a new film titled Ecstatic. The film was shot from a helicopter circling a Brazilian landmark, the recently restored monumental statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. As a counterpart, Alexandre Vogler’s Gira is installed in the main exhibition space. Using branches of the medicinal herb ruta graveolens mounted on large, rotating devices, he evokes ancestral and spiritual traditions from Brazil. The intense scent of the herb is further enhanced by Vogler’s performance Fumacê, which is a mobile censer that smokes out its surroundings to cast out any evil spirits. The artist will mount his Fumacê on a bicycle and exorcise Portikus and the rest of the city. Two concerts complement the performative aspect of the show: one by the artist Arto Lindsay and the other by the multi-instrumentalist Siri. Both performances function as one-off soundtracks to Batista and Packer’s film, which is screened as a backdrop to the stage. Another piece in the exhibition is a newly commissioned text by the writer and curator Daniela Castro in which she draws on notions of Anthropophagia to create a dystopian scenario for Brazil.

The upstairs gallery is dedicated to a comprehensive presentation of the work of Brazilian designer, poet, musician, artist, and author Rogério Duarte. Duarte is a pivotal figure in the artistic movement known as Tropicália, which has its origins in the late 1960s. His huge influence on the imagery and visual language of this movement is reflected in his long-term collaborations with contemporaries such as Gilberto Gil, Glauber Rocha, Hélio Oiticica, and Caetano Veloso. A selection of his work, including posters, record covers, books, and other objects will be presented alongside his new monographic publication Marginália 1. The book was developed by the designer Manuel Raeder and the artist Mariana Castillo Deball over a period of four years. It is the first in-depth survey of Duarte’s practice, and is published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE and Portikus on the occasion of this exhibition.

The exhibition is part of the cultural program of Brazil as guest of honor at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair, and is made possible by the support of FUNARTE, MinC Brazilian Ministry of Culture, and MRE Brazilian Foreign Ministry.

artists: Rogério Duarte, Arto Lindsay, Siri, Manuel Raeder, Daniela Castro, Alexandre Vogler, DJ Lonely, Baba Electronica, Amilcar Packer and Helmut Batista

CAPACETE -
Rogério Duarte

künstler:
Rogerio Duarte, Arto Lindsay, Siri, Manuel Raeder, Daniela Castro, Alexandre Vogler, DJ Lonely, Baba Electronica , Amilcar Packer, Helmut Batista