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
To what extent does the way we consume relate to how we perceive and act in the world? alice shintani / tupinabentô, 2017 / perceptual experiences through ludic playing with food
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.
alice shintani / menas, 2016-17 / immersive installation in preparation for solo exhibition (june 2017)
alice shintani / menas, 2016-17 / immersive installation in preparation for solo exhibition (june 2017) 300 pieces of gouache and embroidery on folded paper on product cardboxes on gallery on “beautiful city” (slogan of right populist mayor) on country under coup d´etat
alice shintani / zika #legend, 2015 / 30.5 cm x 23 cm gouache on paper series inspired on theosophist annie besant´s studies on thought forms
alice shintani / zika #3, 2015 / 30.5 cm x 23 cm gouache on paper series inspired on theosophist annie besant´s studies on thought forms
alice shintani
são paulo, brazil, 1971. lives and works in são paulo. education
1993 computer engineering, bsc, unicamp, brazil. 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
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, po-land; novas aquisições, palacio do itamaraty, brasília. 2012 técnicas de desaparecimento, ha-vana/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.
selected publications
2014 100 painters of tomorrow, thames and hudson. 2011 computer games and phantasms, studio visits, goethe institute são paulo. 2009 alice shintani, revista lugares, fundação iberê cama-rgo, porto alegre; rumos artes visuais trilhas do desejo, instituto itaú cultural, são paulo. 2008 angst und isolation, gee magazine, berlin, germany; nova arte nova, centro cultural banco do brasil, rio de janeiro.
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