Interview: Theater Director Renato Rocha
Nothing like a hot Sunday afternoon, a cold beer and an open terrace in the heart of Camden as a setting to interview Renato Rocha. The Actor and Theater Director is working in town this summer, acting in BufoMecanica’s piece for the Shakespeare Festival: Two Roses for Richard III, and as Artistic Director of Dark Side of Love in production at the Roundhouse. Renato is what we call ‘menino do Rio’ (Rio’s boy); carrying a great smile on his... Read More
Lya Nagado ” Still life” at ICN Gallery: Questioning Mortality by Roy Exley
Lya Nagado: Questioning Mortality “The whole magic of beauty is in its mystery” - Schiller* As soon as I saw Lya Nagado’s beautifully executed, but enigmatic, oil paintings ranged around the gallery wall at ICN, I knew I was in the presence of something rather special. Her paintings, whose hues and tones suggest those of the Flemish old masters, have surfaces whose sumptuous velvety textures offer few clues as to the labour-intensity... Read More
Romen Gouveia, ‘Guilty pleasure … the impossibility of logic’ by Emer Costello
Romen Gouveia’s installation, ‘Guilty pleasure … the impossibility of logic’, an electric boutique of colour, charges the debate of how “brands play the roles of deities in our culture, creating our most powerful iconography, building our most utopian monuments, articulating our experience back at us, not religion, not intellectuals, not poets”. (Klein, p.30, 2002) Showcasing at ‘Goldsmiths Degree Show, 2012’ his kaleidoscopic piece... Read More
Interview: Galpao 30 years anniversary
I arrived at the Globe on the Friday afternoon on time to see Galpao’s truck delivering the costumes and props through the backstage door. The adventure of finding them took me into a journey inside Globe’s staff members. I ended by meeting the festival’s Director Tom Bird. He was really pleased to have Galpao back and he was the one who took me, in person, to the technical team of the troupe . I finally arrived at the rehearsal room, tip... Read More
Alicia Bastos review: Grupo Galpao’s Romeo and Juliet
Grupo Galpao’s version of Romeo and Juliet has already been enchanting the world for 20 years. It was first put together by the Group back in Brazil and presented in the historical city of Ouro Preto. Since then, the play travelled across the country and the world, playing over 270 times until 2003, coming to London, to the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in 2000. To celebrate the Shakespeare Globe to Globe Festival and represent Brazil, there... Read More
Abelha Cachaca about Braziliality
The Legalization of Street Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Michelle Young on Untapped Cities
“Brazilian graffiti art is considered among the most significant strand[s] of a global urban art movement, and its diversity defies the increasing homogeneity of world graffiti.” – Design Week In March 2009, the Brazilian government passed law 706/07 which decriminalizes street art. In an amendment to a federal law that punishes the defacing of urban buildings or monuments, street art was made legal if done with the consent of the owners. As... Read More
Sketching Brazilian Art by Fernando AQ Mota on Dantemag
Brazil’s vibrant and sophisticated contemporary arts scene rests on the foundation of a century’s search for the essence of the Brazilian identity. Brazilian art has grabbed the attention of many international private and public collections in recent years. Along with economic growth and the country’s emerging role in the international political sphere, contemporary Brazilian art is currently a key element in the projection of a new... Read More
‘I am Braziliality’ Festival – 3rd Anniversary
Download the catalogue of the event here. Exhibition: 29th July – 27th August 2011 At Forman’s smokehouse Gallery Address: Stour Road – Fish Island – Hackney Wick – E3 2Nt London I am Braziliality showcases the work of over 40 artists and projects exploring critical aspects and aggregated meanings of the Brazilian cultural roots of artists living around the world. The show is about art from and of the streets, bringing... Read More
Hugo Palotto: Bittersweet
Doce Amargo. (Bittersweet) Doce Amargo is a photography project, which aims to document the land and the life of those who have helped Brazil to be a world leading in sugarcane production. Sugarcane production in Brazil is dated back to 1532. Since then it has always played a very important role in the Brazilian Economy and Culture, helping the country develop since it arrival. Also within Doce Amargo is possible to see the work of one of the greatest... Read More
Adrian Santana Gaarder
Adrian Johan Santana Gaarder, known within Capoeira as Querido de Deus, is a craftsman, artist, musician, and Capoeirista. He studied furniture-making, design and restoration at the Chippendale International School of Furniture, and after graduating in 2009, opened his own workshop in London. As a student of Mestre Poncianinho, he has become extremely passionate about the music of Capoeira, and the rhythms of the Berimbau. Through this interest... Read More
Irineu Nogueira
In this Braziliality event we show Irineu photographed by Azul Serra, a video of his dance work and a live performance. Also with the music producer Guga live participation from Brazil, Braziliality do the launch of the album Xire Reverb. Irineus’ biography One of Brazil’s most talented choreographers and teachers in Afro-Brazilian Dance and Samba, Irineu was born in São Luís, in the state of Maranhão, in the north of Brazil. A pioneer... Read More
