“And Life Will Be Just Celebrating - from the SAMBA EXALTAÇÃO series”
And Life Will Be Just Celebrating - from the SAMBA EXALTAÇÃO series
(SKU. 11657)
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Date
2022 -
Technique
backlight -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 33 x 42 x 7.5 cm -
Edition
10 + 3PA -
Comes with certificate of authenticity
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Felippe Moraes' backlights are records of the SAMBA EXALTAÇÃO project carried out in 2021, during the second wave of the pandemic, between Carnival Friday and Easter Sunday. Every 13 days, a neon sign was installed in the window of his apartment, in the Mirante do Vale building, São Paulo. Each of these neon signs contains the verse of a song and establishes a connection with pedestrians on the Santa Efigênia Viaduct and Vale do Anhangabaú.
At a time when exhibitions could not be held, Moraes found a gap in the social and urban fabric of the city to communicate with other citizens. By using his own home/studio as a support for the work, it became a poetic beacon to illuminate the paths in dark times, further embroiling the relationships between art and life.
The series of interventions followed the liturgical calendar, beginning with the phrase “Agoniza mas não morrer” (It agonizes but it doesn’t die) from the samba of the same name (1978) by Nelson Sargento, marking the absence of the carnival festivities. It then continued through Lent with the philosophical note “Uma parou de mil compassos” (A pause of a thousand bars) from the song “Para ver as meninas” (1968) by Paulinho da Viola, followed by “E viver será só festejar” (And living will be just partying) from “Baianidade Nagô” (1992) composed by Evandro Rodrigues. In the last stage, already during the Easter period, the work evoked the notion of rebirth and a desire for redemption with “Quero viver no Carnaval” (I want to live in Carnival), a poetic alteration of the song “Quero morrer no Carnaval” (1969) by Luiz Antônio and Eurico Campos, immortalized in the voice of Elza Soares.
Biography
Felipe Moraes
Felipe Moraes has been an artist, researcher and independent curator since 2009. He holds a Master's degree in University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, his research focuses on the epistemology of reason and its relations with spirituality, mythology and ancestry as possibilities for re-enchanting the world.
His main solo projects are “Ovo Cósmico” (2023-24) at Galeria Verve, “Samba Exaltação” (2021), a series of neon signs with quotes from Brazilian songs, which took place as an urban intervention in Vale do Anhangabaú in São Paulo, then as a solo exhibition at MAC-Niterói and as a special project at the Museu de Arte do Rio. In 2021, he held “Samba da Luz” at Mário de Andrade Library and at Luz Station. In 2019, he presented “ Solfeggio ” at the FIESP Cultural Center and “ LUCIA ” at the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra in Portugal.
Previously held solo exhibitions “ Immeasurable ” (2018) at Caixa Cultural Fortaleza; “ Proportion ” (2018) no Space of Art Contemporary (EAC) in Montevideo; “ Cosmography ” (2017) and " Order " (2014), both in Baro Gallery in Sao Paulo and “ Progression ” (2016) at MAC-Niterói. He is the author of the public works “ Monument to the Horizon ” (2016) in Niterói and “ Monument to Euclid ” (2017) in Romania and his work is in collections such as the Rio Art Museum, MAM-SP, MACRS, MAC-Niterói and CCSP.
Representative galleries
Verve Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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2019 | Centro Cultural FIESP - Solfejo (curadoria de Julia Lima)
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2019 | Centro Cultural FIESP - Solfejo (curadoria de Julia Lima)
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2021 | Estação da Luz - Samba de Luz 3
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"Ovo Cósmico" | 2023/24 | Verve Galeria, São Paulo
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2018 | Caixa Cultural de Fortaleza - Imensurável (curadoria de Alexandre Sá)
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2016 | Permanente - Caminho Niemeyer - Monumento ao Horizonte
