Artur Barrio: poética nômade

Abstract

Artur Barrio became one of the main Brazilian artists over the years. His artistic trajectory is marked by constant criticism to the arts and culture universe. His works always have the experimentalism, the ephemeral and the transitory marks. Barrio produced works that had a strong concern with the establishment of a link between art and life, so he was always looking for an expansion of the sensorial body both of the spectator and himself. Through his ready-made expanded he provoked actions that were sometimes deflated in complete expansion as we can find in his Situations and sometimes more restricted as we find in his installations. The drawing, painting and the construction of objects also are part of his artistic production. In relation to the drawing, all of them are fruits of the necessity of expression and experimentation. As for his painting, this is marked by a strong gestual component. As for the objects transportable they take us either to the kits of survival or of trips. As the artist does not have a studio, his cadernoslivros [note books-books] are his mobile studio following the artist in its nomadic way. The proposal of this dissertation is the selection and examination of some works of the artist in different supports