Warli Tribe Sao Paulo

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"Feito por Brasileiros" a show curated by Marc Pottier. AUGUST 11th 2014, SÃO PAULO A “creative invasion” of artists will herald the return to life of a long-abandoned São Paulo landmark, the old Umberto Primo Hospital, known as the Hospital Matarazzo, a six-acre complex in the heart of the city, boasting historically significant 19th- century Italianate buildings that were in active use until 1993.
Once a center of city life-- the birthplace of half a million Paulistas and hailed as an important part of Brazil’s cultural patrimony-- the disused Hospital Matarazzo will be revitalized starting on September 9, when its pavilions, hallways, and gardens will be filled with the work of 100 artists taking part in a specially curated exhibition meant to re-infuse the site with new energy before its refurbishment as the Cidade Matarazzo, a landmark mixed-use cultural and tourist complex being created by the Groupe Allard.
Founded and led by Alexandre Allard, Groupe Allard has previously sponsored major exhibitions including Basquiat at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (2010), Veilhan Versailles at the palace of Versailles (2010), and Miró En Son Jardin at the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul de Vence (2009).

Photos in situ : Artur Lescher, Joana Vasconcelos, Charley Case, Douglas White, Maria Theresa Alves, Wang Du, Arne Quinze, Anna Corte, Alexander Lee.

Scheduled to run simultaneously with the Biennale of Sao Paulo, FEITO POR BRASILEIROS will incorporate ephemeral works of painting, sculpture, installation, and video, as well as other short-lived installations and “interventions,” in which viewers can see artists confronting and cross-pollinating their visions, and “cannibalizing” each other’s work, in a process resonant with the influential 1928 “Cannibal Manifesto“ of the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954), which argued that Brazil's cannibalization of other cultures is one of its greatest strengths. This concept will be celebrated by the first work shown inside the exhibition’s main entrance,Baba Antropofágica (Cannibalistic Drool), created by artist Lygia Clark in 1973. 05/08-12/10 Cidade Matarazzo, Alameda Rio Claro 190, Bela Vsita, Sao Paulo.

> Full list of guest artists.

Among this hundred or so artists, Marc Pottier asked me to organize the intervention of painters from the Warli tribe. We were going to spend with Balu, Sadashiv, Kishor Mashe and Shantaram Ghorkhana two weeks in Sao Paulo in this magical place. To give meaning to this in situ intervention by Warli artists, we imagined a dialogue with a graffiti artist from Sao Paulo, Caligrapixo. The graffiti artists from Sao Paulo have invented their own style in the form of a specific calligraphy with curves and sharp angles. It finds here a singular echo with the art of the Warli who, speaking a dialect without writing, invented a pictography common to the whole tribe based on the triangle, the circle and the square.