If at the WEF in Davos, the President of Brazil has made its appearance, if the words Jair Bolsonaros Davos will be streamed in the wide world, if anywhere in the world, and certainly in his home country, journalists and political Commentators of the designs accept, analyze, interpret, process, then the Plan goes on. The Plan of another Brazilian in Switzerland: Marcelo Galvão (53), artist name, Marcelot, resident in Zurich. With the Reports about Bolsonaro at the WEF, the circle, the Marcelot the subject of his art closes.
“Jair Bolsonaro is a product of the media.”Marcelo Galvão, artist
Marcelo Galvão has been dedicated in the past year, week-long Jair Bolsonaro: He created a bust from a newspaper and wool threads, about 110 centimetres and 20 kilograms in weight. Marcelo Galvão says: “Jair Bolsonaro is a product of the media.” This is the circle, of which the artist speaks.
Who invented it?
the paper’s President during a three-month artist-in-residence Galvãos age home to Brazil Arose. The bust was exhibited at the Faculdade Armando Alvarez Penteado (FAAP), an art school in São Paulo. Every Morning, Galvão won at a Kiosk a stack of “Folha de São Paulo”, the newspaper is reviled by the followers Bolsonaros as a left-leaning newspaper, has written committed against Bolsonaro and writes – and so the Hype around this man is not innocent. “After all, who would be this Bolsonaro without the media?”, ask Galvão. This truth is uncomfortable, just for the “Folha”, almost bitter.
When the daily newspaper was not exactly pleased to have been on the work, told Galvão in his Studio in Zurich Binz. Nobody was very happy with the result: “The Fans, who watched the bust to the Selfie, more precisely, felt it as an insult that “your” President is out of the paper “the other” is.” The opponents of the President were upset at the choice of newspaper: the controversial head of state from “your” paper.
“more Important than my art
the discussions they trigger are for me.”Marcelo Galvão, artist
the beginning of the year graced Galvãos bust the front page of the magazine “Época”, the Brazilian counterparts to the German news magazine “Focus”, with a circulation of around 500’000 copies. Interesting: “Época” wrote about Galvão (“his Mission is to get people with his art out of their comfort zone”), described his technique (“minutely and in detail”), appreciated but. Neither the art nor its political Dimension. Although it was the thing he was looking for: the dialogue about the work. “More important than my art, and the discussions they trigger are for me,” says Galvão. Important: His bust was politically, he Marcelot but not partisan. Even if he hadn’t chosen Bolsonaro.
Napoleon for the niche
The Material of newsprint, has discovered Galvão for a long time. Because of its symbolism: the newspaper of the same Information. His first work was an Obama Financial Times, meanwhile, he has refined his technique, a near-perfect Napoleon from “Le Monde” stands in his Studio in the Binz – inspired by an empty niche in the Villa Medici in Rome, with the name of Napoleon labeled.
The 53-Year-old has just applied to the Bavarian Ministry of culture for a project in the Villa Massimo in Rome; part of an exhibition in the Glyptothek in Munich, a collection of antique sculpture would be. Newspaper also plays a Central role: From the dresses of the deities are produced, the photographs he wants to make the ancient statues. From the newspaper of the American soldier and the IS fighters to wage war in an artistic Intervention.
Newspapers from all over the world
in Front of the window in the Binz raw, with just a few points, welded steel frame, a perforated plate on top of it: the frame for Emmanuel Macron. Also, he is finished from “Le Monde”, Angela Merkel from the “süddeutsche Zeitung”. Trump is sure to come, as Russian President Vladimir Putin from “Pravda”, Queen Elizabeth II, “Daily Telegraph,” or the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, from “The People Daily”. You all together are the work of “Heads of Power”, power heads. The project exists in Marcelo Galvãos head. The Newspapers are still writing about it. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 23.01.2019, 14:41 PM
