2011 OctoberYear 1Issue 3

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BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY ART

EDITORIAL

Coordination: Jonathas MelloEditor: Luisa FreyProduction: Mariana Bittencourt Vitor Vieira de OliveiraCover illustration: Lambuja

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“This country will only be great when every Brazilian feels respon-sible and influent by the strength of his thoughts for the creation of a nacional whole.” Teotônio Vilela (1917 - 1983) - Brazilian politician

Borders are tricky elements. They limit spaces and create iden-tities at the same time. They also instigate the reconstruction of such identities by asking questions constantly. From spacial limitations, discussions about language, cultural and thinking limitations emerge. Frequently, this questions are asked by art, which turns daily subjects into alternatives of change and de-velopment.

The present issue of Sabiá Magazine presents, once more, ar-tists from inside Brazilian borders - and from outside as well -, who bring along theirs influences and references. Since the magazine was launched, we have been questioning the idea of “Brazil, samba, sweat and carnival” and we keep questioning it by the works featured in this issue. We struggle against stereo-types and stand for the exact opposite of it: the broadening and gathering of different worlds, that together create a “na-tional whole” – complex and rich as the Brazilian culture is.

© The works featured in this issue are copyrighted by the authors and its publication was authorized only to Sabiá Magazine. It is forbidden to use these images for other purposes. If you are interested in it, please contact the artist.

THREEANNA ANJOS CRISTINA CENCIARELLI EDUARDO FONSECA IRENA FREITAS

ISE ARAÚJO LEANDRO NEVES LUIZ PEGORARO PEDRO FERREIRA LAMBUJA

CRIS/TRAK AMORIM VITI GROSMAN ZÉ OTÁVIO

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From São Paulo, SP

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Anna Anjos combines stilyzed shapes and playful ele-ments to achieve a unique creation, showing an original work in which colors plays with shapes. This creation chemistry reveals a very special artwork: innocent cha-racters showing its delicate appearance, but stating its firm personality and emotions.Anna is an art-illustrator and has produced advertising campaigns and projects for companies such as Nestlé (2010) and Bandeirantes Television (2011) and for the municipal government of the city of Recife (2011). Her illustrations were also published in magazines and books from big Brazilian publishing houses such as Abril, FTD and Moderna. The artist currently collaborates with the new collection “Art and Rock” for the restaurant chain Spoleto, which has Rock in Rio as theme.

Anna Anjoswww.annaanjos.com

El Rey - Digital illustration

Carmen AfrotropicalDigital Illustration

Carnaval Multicultural Recife Digital Illustration

From Rome, ItalyLives in Cairú / Boipeba, BA

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Cristina Cenciarelli

Boipeba, lugar sem tempo“On the Boipeba island, time flows in a unique cadence, followed by the sea rythm, regulated by the absolute light and by the dark-ness. It is governed by ancient wisdom gestures, timeless – such as fishing, ‘candomblé’ and the act of stopping to watch the sea and take a breath. Each moment is unique and different, as photogra-phy. On the Boipeba island, it is necessary to learn to wait.The atmosphere is special. These men and women lives are a per-manent way to learn. No one can explain, it is necessary to accept each moment that passes by here, letting it penetrate in the skin, treating it carefully, living and loving it, because this moment be-longs to you – and to the island as well.”Excerpt written by Cristina Cenciarelli

The Italian-born Cristina Cenciarelli has studied photography in Rome and New York, having also worked with theatre, ad-vertising and journalism. Her pictures have been published on important magazines from Italy, France, United States, Germany and have been exhibited in Europe, in the United States and in Brazil. In 2003 she moved to Boipeba – an island in Bahia, Brazil –, where she has been researching about the island’s culture and traditions, through the creation of the Association Luz Cultural and the Library Edite da Vida.

From Ponte Nova, MG Lives in Lisboa, Portugal

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Eduardo Fonseca graduated in Visual Arts at the Fine Arts School of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in the city of Belo Horizonte. “This period was essential to my artistic education. It was then that I chose to dedicate myself to painting. However, before arriving to this point there were plenty of random experiments which have conduc-ted to my choices”, he says.The oil painting was a discovery that made Eduardo see a new world, full of infinite possibilities. “The light did not only reproduce reality but became an interpretation of reality. A shadow wasn’t the light ab-sence anymore, but a bunch of colours that fits into a certain space.” Another element always present in his work is the critical humor. “I contest things that don’t seem ok, but I don’t go straight to the point, I rather go slowly. I surround things, check what is going on, experiment a bit, and then I finally gather the subject to express myself freely!”

Eduardo Fonseca

www.eduardofonseca.com

Memory GameOil on canvas

60 x 90 cm

CockfightOil on canvas125 x 45 cm

SacredGold leaf and oil on canvas

90 x 120 cm

AlmostOil on canvas140 x 90 cm

Gaza Strip IOil on canvas

125 x 95 cm

Gaza Strip IIOil on canvas

125 x 95 cm

From Vitória, ESLives in Manaus, AM

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IrenaFreitas

http://cargocollective.com/irenafreitas

Irena Freitas is 20 years old and studies Design and Jour-nalism. “For me, to draw is to extend childhood a bit more, to transform ideas into images”. That’s why she is interested in children’s illustration and in drawing what she calls “pretty girls”. Inspiration comes from what the artist reads, watches and listens, being these influences reflected in her drawings.

NymphsDigital illustration

ZumblorgDigital illustration

Summer babesDigital illustration

Children of the forestDigital illustration

Kissed by fireDigital illustration

From São Paulo, SP Lives in Fortaleza, CE

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Ise Araújo’s work comprises urban art, pop art and what she calls “expressio-cynicism”. Since she has decided to free her drawings from her notebooks, she has worked with canvas, wood, wheat-paste and cardboard. Her cha-racters have a bit of infant, playful and circus universe. In her art she strives to be in touch with everything that is capable of provoking her and brin-ging her good memories. “Maybe that’s a way to get rid from the weight of reality which comes along with time.”

Ise Araújo

www.flickr.com/ise_arte

From São Paulo, SP

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Leandro Neves teaches photography and is a fashion and advertising photo-grapher. Living between São Paulo and Rio, he has always researched about lighting and image post-production. Leandro believes that, in photogra-phy, more than the subject, it’s the light that tells the story.

Leandro Neveshttp://leandroneves.daportfolio.com

From Florianópolis, SCLives in London, England

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Luiz Pegoraro is graphic designer and skateboarder. After getting ti-red of working with briefings, he decided to devote himself more to things that give him pleasure. He graduated in Design at the Uni-versity of Santa Catarina and then started to paint in 2010, when he moved from the beautiful Florianópolis to the freezing London.He has just concluded his postgraduate studies in Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. The main focus of his work are portraits of people he admires or who live around him. In addition to oil paintings, Luiz ventures into other media, such as sculptures with cheap materials and composition of images in layers of cardboard.

www.luizpegoraro.com

Luiz Pegoraro

Full English breakfastOil on canvas60 x 75 cm

I love London, but London doesn’t love meArt installationNewspaper, clothes and garbage bags

KeenaAcrylic on cardboard layers

50x50cm

Leaving - Jimmy GarrisonOil on canvas

50x65cm

Leaving - Herbie HancockOil on canvas

50x65cm

Leaving - Stanley TurrentineOil on canvas50x65cm

From Juiz de Fora, MG Lives in São Paulo, SP

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“Illustrator in education and honored sailor; a psycho-tic lover and expert in garden snails; and an avowed lighters thief who had never taken anyone’s virginity.”

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Pedro FerreiraLambuja

www.flickr.com/pedrohenriqueferreira www.murro.com.br (soon)

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Homemade ApocalypseDigital illustration

Jonny T loversDigital illustration

Ambrósio PriestDigital illustration

TokioDigital illustration

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Cris Amorim graduated in Advertising at the Ibero-American Uni-versity Center. Recently, she also graduated in Cinema at the Escola Livre de Cinema and she currently studies scenography in SP Escola de Teatro. Known as Trak, Cris works with art direction of short films. And she also draws. “My drawings are abstractions of sensations, little things that affect me in some way and they are somehow symbolic.”

From São Paulo, SP

www.flickr.com/photos/trakamorim

Cris/TrakAmorim

Unexpected hugInk and watercolor on paper

Sea, Jazz and WhiskyInk and watercolor on paper

Green readingInk and watercolor on paper

OffshoreInk and watercolor on paper

The creation of applesPencil and watercolor on paper

From Porto Alegre, RSLives in Florianópolis, SC

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Viti Grosman’s art currently experiences a free and at the same time restrained moment.Free considering he used to divide himself between the dualities an-chor/bird, male/female, mundane/fabulous and, at the present time, he has assumed the flight of a bird. He has chosen the female as representative element and plunged into the fabulous world.Restrained because the artist, who has been living for five years in the island of Florianópolis, seems to now be aware of its geographi-cal limitations. He transfers this frontier ground/sea to his paintings, from which female figures and turquoise plans emerge, that someti-mes represent heaven and other times the sea.After following the paths suggested by his works of art, one gets the impression that the artist has forever landed in painting and during his flight, is going further.

Viti Grosman

www.vitiworks.com

Blue JumpAcrylic on canvas

New waveAcrylic on canvas

Wandering in blueAcrylic on canvas

From Olímpia, SPLives in São Paulo, SP

ZéOtávio

Zé Otávio is passionated about São Paulo since he was 11. This is the city where he currently lives and works. There he has studied Graphic Design at the Fine Arts School and has particularly dedicated himself during the photography and live models classes, getting to contemplate faces and people. He bases his studies in sketchbooks, in which he experiments and abuses of primary colors, collages, tapes, lines and what else paper supports. Zé explores themes like androgeny, sex and the freshness of what is happening on the streets. He currently works with illustration, mainly for the publishing industry, always looking for alternatives and “non-obvious expressions” in both comissioned and galery works. The artist is also a member of the PLUS Galery and of the SketchJazz group, through which he sells originals and prints.

www.zeotavio.com

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SamantaMIxed media on paper

Andy WarholMIxed media on paper

MonroeMIxed media on paper

PaulMIxed media on paper

Dark SideMIxed media on paper

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