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Showing posts with label Lisboa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lisboa. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
TRES 'TRISTES TROPIQUES': TROPICAL SOCIETY IN LISBON
The Barber Shop
Susana Pomba, my favourite Lisbon art and music blogger with Jean Michel Wicker.
check out Susana's blog http://missdove.blogspot.com/
Serralves curator Ricardo Nicolau
Pablo Leon de la Barra and Luiz Augusto Texeira de Freitas
Margarida Mendes from 'The Barber Shop' before the opening
curator Filipa Oliveira with Runo Lagomarsino's 'Cobogos'
Angolan artist/designer Tiago Borges
pregnant artist Rita GT next to Runo's 'Cobogos'
Rita GT and David Waddington
art journalist Pedro Faro
Nuno Alexandre Ferreira and Jemima Stehli
artist Joao Onofre
my favourite Lisbon male blogger Nuno Alexandre Ferreira http://primeiraavenida.blogspot.com/
Kiki
artist Joao Pedro Vale
Margarida Mendes with opening night look!
JMW and PLB
Jemima Stehli and PLB
Margarida Mendes and PLB
tropical plants
and Mr. Papaya...
many images courtesy http://primeiraavenida.blogspot.com/
and http://missdove.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
'TRISTES TROPIQUES' A GRAN SAUDADE COLLETIVA AT THE BARBER SHOP IN LISBOA
The Barber Shop, Lisboa and Novo Museo Tropical present:
Tristes Tropiques
A proposal by Pablo Leon de la Barra
A gran saudade colletiva with works byAlexandre da Cunha, Patrizio Di Massimo, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pablo Helguera, Runo Lagomarsino, Mauricio Lupini, Donald Urquhart, Jean-Michel Wicker, Carla Zaccagnini, a journal by Elein Fleiss, poems by Walter Gam, soundtrack by Arto Lindsay, and documents from the Flavio de Carvalho and Helio Oiticica Archives.
With the support of Luiz Augusto Teixeira de Freitas
Special thanks to Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Julieta Gonzalez and Adriano Pedrosa.
The Barber Shop, Rua Rosa Araújo 5, Lisboa
March 4, 2010, 10PM
http://thisisthebarbershop.blogspot.com/
In memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
“Tropical countries, as it seemed to me, must be the exact opposite of our own…”
"As we got steadily near the tropics, the heat made the hold more and more unbearable, and turned the deck into a mixture of dining-room, dormitory, nursery, wash-house and solarium"
"I imagined Brazil as a tangled mass of palm leaves, with glimpses of strange architecture in the middle distance, and an all permeating smell of burning perfume"
“The transition from house to street was less clearly marked than it is in Europe. No matter how smart the shop-front, the goods have a way of spilling over in the street, so that you hardly notice whether you are, or are not, ‘inside’ the shop. The street is a place to be lived in, not a place to pass through. It is at once tranquil and animated – more lively, and yet more sheltered, than our streets at home.”
“People generally think of travel in terms of displacement in space, but a long journey exists simultaneously in space, in time, and in the social hierarchy. Our impressions must be related to each of these three before we can define them properly; and as space alone has three dimensions all to itself we should need at least five to establish an adequate notion of travel.”
“That I had crossed the Atlantic and the Equator and was near the tropics I knew form several infallible signs: among them, the easy-going damp heat which emancipated my body from its normal layer of woollens and abolished the distinction (which I recognized, in retrospect, as one of the marks of our civilization) between ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors’.”
“The tropics are not so much exotic as out of date. It’s not the vegetation which confirms that you are ‘really there’, but certain trifling architectural details and the hint of a way of life which would suggest that you had gone backwards in time rather than forwards across a great part of the earth surface”
Quotes from Claude Levi Strauss, ‘Tristes Tropiques’, Criterion Books, New York; first American Edition 1961, French Edition 1955
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