“Don't let samba die”
Don't let samba die
(SKU. 10821)
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Date
2021 -
Technique
wood, aluminum, resin, steel and laser engraving -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 62.6 x 35.8 x 24.4 cm -
Edition
12 + 4PA -
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The work is part of the third Collector's Edition, a collaboration between collector Bia Yunes Guarita and the artist:
In the year of the absent Carnival, in which the streets could not be taken over by bodies and desire, the object “Don’t let samba die” (2021) was created as a reliquary of the memory of samba. While preserving its evocation, the sculpture demands action from the interactor so that the music becomes present. By playing the seven keys of the marimba with the red-tipped drumstick, the melody of the song of the same name by Edson Conceição and Aloísio Silva, which became known through the voice of Alcione in 1975, is emanated.
The title of the work, as well as the song it emulates, speak directly to the listener. They call us to action that brings samba into the world, whether through dance, song or memory. The chords emitted draw attention to the following verses that hover in our memory, speaking of its origins and its vocation to reinvent life in the midst of precariousness.
The work is developed based on Felippe Moraes' research on samba and Carnival. Using a design with poetic purposes, the artist promotes synesthetic, bodily and emotional experiences based on the relationship with the object. As a musical instrument built to play only a part of a specific song, it draws us to the importance and urgency of what is being stated: Don't let samba die, don't let samba end.
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
