Artur Barrio is the seventh artist to be honoured with the grand prize of the EDP Foundation. In his work — “ephemeral”, according to his own words, “extremely sharp, according to the director of MAAT — use materials such as trash, flesh or blood.
“reading this book is made of cutting action of the knife of the butcher the meat with the consequent switching of the fibres; / finuras, etc., etc. – as well as the different shades and colours. To finish it is necessary not to forget the temperature of the contact sensory (of the fingers), social problems, etc. and etc.”, writes the artist and luso-brazilian Artur Barrio in 1979 on the mode of reading the work of art the Book of Meat, one of several that uses organic materials to express themselves and one of the most emblematic of a career distinguished with the Grand Prix EDP Foundation Art for artists.
“My work is all short-lived,” said the artist, 72-year-old met on Wednesday, after the press conference at the Fundação EDP, yesterday, after the announcement of the prize. “Sharp”, in the words of Pedro Tudela, director of the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (MAAT), one of eight members of the jury that chose the winner of this year: António Mexia, chairman of the Board of Directors; João Pinharanda, ex-programmer of Fundação EDP and the current cultural attaché of the embassy of Portugal in Paris; Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Gallery, London; Suzanne Cotter, director of Museu de Serralves; Emília Tavares, conservative photography and new media at the National Museum of Contemporary Art; Nuno Crespo, art critic; and the director of the Basel Art Institute, Chus Martínez.
The text of the artist, written in 1979, following the work “Book of Flesh”
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the Prize Velázquez in 2011, in Spain, Barrio was chosen “unanimously”, said António Mexia. “The goal of this award is to recognize the people that have a decisive contribution to the discipline, whether the person is more or less known”, justified, about the distinction and the assignment to an artist who made his career in Brazil.
members of the jury in the decision meeting of the artist winner
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active Voice in the fight against the military dictatorship , the reporting of violence against opponents of the regime had been present just on one of his early works, Situations, 1970, also known as the ” Bloody – bales of cloth-filled organic waste (meat, again), with a shape reminiscent of the bodies with blood. Used them in the collective exhibition Of the Body to the Earth. Hurled about 40 bales in Rio Arrudas Belo Horizonte.
The artist and the “Situation”, the name of the works that became known as “Lemons Ensaguentadas”
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Born in Santo Ildefonso, Porto, portugal, in 1945, Artur Alípio Barrio de Sousa Lopes, is the son of an industrial owner of a factory in wigan and emigrated to Brazil in 1955, with the family. In a brief speech, justified by the panic of public speaking, thanked the award “in recognition of his work and an incentive to the continued”. It was considered a “homecoming”. “There comes a time when we have to put the suitcase somewhere”.
“Lemons Ensaguentadas”
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“All the years I’ve been here [in Portugal], three, four times,” says the DN. “I returned in 1974 with the carnation revolution. The colonial war was still going on, it was a very poor country, semi-destroyed, the highway Lisbon-Porto was a hole,” recalls the artist, 19 years old at the time. “I came because I could see. I was against the regime, did not accept, and had no interest in serving the army in any part,” he recalls.
Artur Barrio during the press conference in the room of the generators of the Central Tagus
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By that time, he also began to show his work in Portugal. “I participated in the meetings of Viana of the Castle, I did a lot of work in the field, which, incidentally, I still do. Portugal gives me a piece of information too large for my work, and this, by itself, is already a lot,” he said.
The luso-brazilian is the seventh artist to receive this award, succeeding Lourdes Castro, Mário Cesariny, Álvaro Lapa, Eduardo Batarda, Jorge Molder and Ana Jotta.
Artur Barrio with the executive director of the EDP Foundation, Miguel Coutinho, the CEO of EDP, António Mexia, and the director of the MAAT, Pedro Tudela
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The winners will receive a prize of 50 thousand euros, and are covered with a exhibition that was done in a period up to three years. The anthological of the work of the artist Ana Jotta, the last winner, is being prepared for the last quarter of the year and may occupy a space outside of the campus of the EDP Foundation, took Pedro Tudela.
The exhibit, which celebrates the work of Artur Barrio has been appointed for the purposes of 2019. Guarantee that will not think about anything until the moment in which you have to show your work. “Is sloth creative,” he said, about the method of work, in the press conference, flanked by the president of the EDP, the director of the MAAT and the executive director of the Foundation. Stressed-after the DN. Ensures that will you do when you see the space. “I’m going to get and I’m going to do,” he said. “I do not make projects pre-programmed, I create at the moment. It is a conquest, a direction that my work has been following,” he says. It has been so in the various institutions where you have the past, say, say, unraveling their names: Gens, Tokyo, Paris…
it Will be so, promises, in the next year, at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, where he will meet John Fernandes. The current deputy director of the Spanish institution commissioned the exhibition Navigations / Ramblings presented in the Serralves Museum in 2012.
Artur Barrio (center) was born in Porto and lives since 1955 in Brazil
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