Is there room for imagination nowadays? Are there other ways
to perceive the world? Are there alternative ways of being in
the world through artistic experience?
Could we invent (or rescue) more ludic, poetic, sensitive,
silent and (why not) amateur approaches to deal with those
issues with people at large? What does political reinvention
really would mean from the perspective(s) of art? How could
art best contribute to that reinvention?
Living in a place where inequality reigns in all aspects of
life, wish (perhaps utopic) is to commune such imagination
with broader audiences not so focused on contemporary art
trends, being in mind the rich, diverse and emancipated
spectators we all are, regardless of education background,
social class or cultural identity.
Life is broader. So is art.
Alice Shintani
tuiuiú, 2017 / handpainted flags inspired on athos bulcão´s tiles installed in Brasilia government buildings during military dictatorship. around 200 flags were installed inline among mario de andrade public library + dom josé gaspar square + aber (brazilian association of bind-ing and restoration) and shared for free with pedestrian public. the intervention were not negotiated with local military police officers.
there were about fifty homeless people living in the square, but we did not want to go on sort of assistentialism art, neither falling into escapist aesthetics to deny the reality of that place. We wanted to get out of that dichotomy and try other relationships, even though we know that the ethic and aesthetic limits of art are always very tenuous.
tuiuiú, 2017. intervention on public space in collaboration with sem título s.d. collective + dom josé gaspar square + mario de andrade li-brary + aber (brazilian association of binding and restoration), são paulo, brazil.
tupinabentô #1 set:
recicled carboard box + banana tree leaves collected at são paulo city downtown + chita fabric + home cooked indian curry, guacamole, vietnamese banana and coconut dessert, oniguiris (japanese rice balls)
and lebanese giant-leaf-bread. this first set was served in an open in-door sarau, where people were invited to buy tupinabentôs (in a freely secret price-yourself-and-pay basis) to be fur-ther shared with homeless neighboors who
didn´t attended the sarau.
zika #3, 2015 / 30.5 cm x 23 cm / gouache on paper series inspired on theosophist annie besant´s studies on thought
zika #3, 2015 / 30.5 cm x 23 cm / gouache on paper series inspired on theosophist annie besant´s studies on thought
alice shintani
são paulo, brazil, 1971. lives and works in são paulo.
alice works from an expanded idea of painting as starting point to imagine forms of approaching to the emancipated other and to reflect on the possibilities of aesthetic experience: how it is constructed; where and how we can access it in order to dislocate something? Defending the idea that such experience exists beyond the established art system, Shintani transits between different contexts – from art gallery to the warehouse of neighbourhood market, from the home kitchen to the sidewalk of a public square – interested in diminishing the distances and mean-ings between poetic and political gestures.
alice is granddaughter of Japanese immigrants, graduated in Computer Engineering at Universi-ty of Campinas in 1993 and was an active mountaineering and rock climbing practitioner before moving to arts in the early 2000s. Her practice has been shown in major Brazilian museums, in-stitutes and galleries as well as shared in streets, public spaces and social networks.
solo exhibitions
2017 menas, galeria marcelo guarnieri, são paulo. 2013 o cru e o cozido, galeria marcelo
guarni-eri, ribeirão preto. 2012 hanafuda, galeria mercedes viegas, rio de janeiro. 2011 bakemono, casa triângulo, são paulo. 2010 sinopse, galeria mercedes viegas, rio de janeiro. 2009 ether, galeria virgilio, são paulo. 2008 alice shintani, galeria marcelo guarnieri, ribeirão preto.
2007 quimera, galeria virgilio, são paulo; aproximações, temporada de projetos, paço das artes,
são paulo; estações, centro cultural são paulo.
selected group exhibitions
2017 tuiuiú, praça dom josé gaspar + aber, são paulo; osso - exposição apelo ao amplo direito
de defesa de rafael braga, instituto tomie ohtake, são paulo. 2016 olhar inComum, museu oscar niemeyer, curitiba. 2014 survival adaptations, aggregate space gallery, oakland, usa; momento
contemporâneo, instituto figueiredo ferraz, ribeirão preto; 65o salão paranaense, mac paraná, curitiba. 2013 utropic, centre of contemporary art, poznan, poland; novas aquisições, palacio do itamaraty, brasília. 2012 técnicas de desaparecimento, havana/guantanamo, cuba. 2010 edições, casa triângulo, são paulo. 2009 rumos artes visuais trilhas do desejo, instituto itaú cultural, são paulo / ecco, brasília / paço imperial, rio de janeiro. 2008 nova arte nova, centro cultural banco do brasil rio de janeiro and são paulo.
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