Visual arts Music Literature
Brazil Denmark Germany Japan Poland
From July 25th to August 15 th, 2015 | Catit贸 Farm, Monte Santo de Minas | MG | Brazil
Visit to artists during the first edition of Damar International Workshop, held in 2013 in the atelier of Carlos Matuck (Embu das Artes, SP, Brazil).
Damar Catitó Workshop Internacional Visual arts, music and literature Over three weeks, twelve artists from Japan, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Brazil will be fully concerned with the activities proposed by Damar Catitó. Nine of the invited artists are dedicated to painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. The other three artists work with photography, music and literature as well. The Workshop activities will be held in both the city of São Paulo and the Catitó Farm. There the artists will spend most of their time, working in ateliers, which will be specially prepared and equipped with materials requested by them. Although classes will not be available, some schedules will be offered at the farm during the season, which will be specifically reserved for visits of local artists, craftsmen and students. By the end of the Workshop, an on farm exhibition will be held with the works produced during the workshop. Two exhibitions in São Paulo Two works from each participant artist will be chosen from the on farm exposition and will be part of another exhibition in São Paulo, where the Workshop opening exhibition will also take place, with original paintings of the Japanese participants Kiyoko Kozawa and Kiyomi Kuriki. These two exhibitions will take place in the Priscilla Mainieri Studio Gallery, which is also a Damar partner in this second edition of the Workshop. Its mission is to give proper treatment to the material and immaterial collection produced during the Workshop to remain in Brazil, as well as host lectures and promote meetings among participants, artists and students of São Paulo. In the four short stays in São Paulo – at the opening and closing exhibitions and in two weekends - the invited artists and guests will visit local artists’ Studios, exhibitions and cultural institutions.
Information For more details about the Workshop opening and closing exhibitions, see the website www.ateliepriscilamainieri.com.br. Timetables and dates for scheduling visits to the Studio on the farm, detailed information about the artists and programming of activities can be found on the page Damar Workshop on Facebook, besides the blog damarcatito.tumblr.com and on Instagram @damarcatito.
Catitó
In this second edition of the workshop, the Damar counts on the partnerships of the Capobianco Cultural Institute and the Catitó Farm, where the event will take place. The choice of this farm was strategic as a Studio for the artists. Located in Monte Santo de Minas (MG), Catitó is a historical reference in the region, as a coffee farm established in the second half of the 19th century. Presently it is managed by Hellen and Júlio Capobianco, according to environmental sustainability guidelines which consider the inclusion of cultural issues in its positive interactivity established with rural communities and the surrounding cities. At Catitó Farm, the management model assumes that technological innovations in production processes depend to a large extent, on the creative will of employees. As a stimulus, Catitó develops artistic activities with them, whose production help to keep alive the memory and spirit of the farm and, at the same time, qualifies them culturally and technically, adding skills to the daily performances, thus motivating advances in their careers. For Catitó farm, the promotion of the Workshop represents significant conceptual mark. It results from a long-term process that has been being built, and that has contributed to the deepening of relations among artists, craftsmen, houses of culture and public institutions in the region. The choice was also strategic in order to induce the main methodological proposition of the Workshop. Historical richness and the social and cultural exuberance of the farm are themselves extremely favorable for the construction of the necessary ambience to stimulate the potential for free creation and personal exchanges, which are basic conditions for the production of absolutely unique art works.
Damar
Damar cannot be defined only as a producer of cultural events. First, because it is exclusively dedicated to the periodic production of a single event, the Damar International Workshop, in which the collective mood is, at the same time, motor and consequence of intense and remarkable art production. Secondly, and most importantly, because the energy and expertise dedicated to this event go beyond the generic roll of ordinary assignments of cultural companies. Damar, one might say, is an avatar of Carlos Matuck, visual artist for a long time who, after experiencing Workshops in countries such as Germany, Denmark, Poland, Japan, decided to organize similar experience himself. Sensible, Matuck has identified the common qualities in the different countries where he worked, and proposed a Brazilian version, which, apparently, will soon be another important channel for the integration of Brazilian artists in an international circuit, which, since a long time ago, give a breath to arts making, aesthetic knowledge, and gestures to keep the peace.
On the previous page, the headquarters of the Catit贸 Farm. Above, space for the Studio.
Invited artists
Kiyomi Kuriki – Japan Painting
Kiyoko Kozawa – Japan Painting, instalations
Yumi Takatsuta – Brazil/Japan Painting, woodcut
Erwin Legl – Germany Sculpture, painting
Invited artists
Doris Hahlweg – Germany/Brazil Painting, instalations
Justyna Machnicka – Poland Painting, photography, instalations
Jon Gislason – Denmark Painting
Tine Hinde – Denmark Painting, woodcut
Invited artists
Júlio Barreto – Brazil Painting, graffiti, instalations
Patrícia Corsi de Filippi – Brazil Photography, cinema
Marcos Maffei – Brazil Literature
Arismar do Espírito Santo – Brazil Music
Carlos Matuck Passagem das Paineiras, 183 06846-120 | Embú das Artes | SP | Brasil matuckc@gmail.com carlosmatuck.com.br Instituto Cultural Capobianco Rua Álvaro de Carvalho, 97 01050-070 | São Paulo | SP | Brasil institutocapobianco.org.br
Rua Isabel de Castela, 274, Vila Madalena 05445-010 | São Paulo | SP (11) 3031-8727 www.ateliepriscilamainieri.com.br