Last weekend to check out "Animal que no existed", solo exhibition by Daniel Steegmann Magrané in France; "Desvelo y Traza", installation by Sara Ramo and the group exhibition "Wrong Move", with Daniel de Paula, Ivan Grilo and Letícia Ramos in Rio de Janeiro. Check out the full agenda for this week of exhibitions and events related to PIPA artists, Nominating Committee members, Board members, MAM-Rio and relevant information about art in Brazil and abroad.

    

The exhibition-installation "Resistir ao passado, ignorar o futuro e a incapacidade de conter o presente" takes part in the Museum's circuit. The short films “Sudden Shifts” and "Part 2", in exhibition at the Cinematheque are part of the show by Vijai Patchineelam. This is the last weekend to check out "Thresholds - The Joaquim Paiva collection at MAM", currently with nearly two thousand works by Brazilian and foreign photographers, purchased since the 1980s. See the full Museum programme, the Cinematheque calendar and screening times and the Education and Art activities.

    

(Madrid, Spain) The notion of “really useful knowledge” emerged at the beginning of the 19th century alongside the workers’ awareness of the need for self-education. In the 1820s and 1830s, working class organisations in the UK introduced this phrase to describe a body of knowledge that encompassed various “unpractical” disciplines such as politics, economy and philosophy, as opposed to the “useful knowledge” proclaimed by business owners.

    

(Vienna, Austria) Renata Lucas's works examine how the built environment informs social relations and actions. The artist considers structural elements as language of a space, thus in site-specific interventions, she manipulates architectural structures to deconstruct socially defined spaces and their uses and test novel and playful possibilities. By way of addition, duplication, or superimposition, she designs subtle modifications that suggest alternative perceptions of a place.

    

(New Orleans, US) The 23 panels used in "Mood Disorder" were found in the basement of the exhibition space and are made of glass and acrylic. Lucia has airbrushed them with a transparent pigment, so that they filter light and change the atmosphere, creating a sense of drama. Whether through covering the façades, skylights and windows with translucent materials or filters, or by creating new layers between inside and outside, Koch's interest lies in creating altered states of place.

    

(São Paulo, SP) With no trepidation regarding the abstraction that busies itself with the the old days that are still to come, these are condemned as of now to the eternal return of the reifying narrative, with thoughts and actions geared to everything running smoothly. The group exhibition summons 25 artists, musicians, designers, photographers and filmmakers to design the future, reprogram the future, represent the future and communicate through perennial channels with those who are still not in a society which has yet to establish itself.

    

(São Paulo, Brazil) Ana Mazzei, Cristiano Lenhardt, Erika Verzutti, Michel Zózimo, Nino Cais, Rodolpho Parigi, Sofia Borges, Theo Craveiro and Tony Camargo are some of the artists with works presented in "Expo 14/15", group show curated by the artists Luiz Roque

    

(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) The project "Movimento²”, developed during a residency at the Image and Sound Museum in São Paulo (MIS SP), was carried out in three stages: structure assemblage, recording, editing and objects assemblage. Defining the monitor shapes and models, type of camera, recording, structures and wall format depended on each other, therefore the idea development was an elaborated process, with countless tests and deep research about the means, mediums, equipment and setting available.

    

(São Paulo, Brazil) "...pegaríamos as coisas onde elas crescem, pelo meio..." [“…we would get things in the places where they grow, in the middle…”] title/curatorial proposal is a quote by the post-structuralist french philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who thought that the normative definitions and demands of beginnings and closures limit art. Starting from this idea, the artists were proposed to create and gather works without an ending, suggesting a continuity beyond them.

    

(Brasília, Brazil) In the past years, we have been witnesses of a fast-paced development in technology. The most ordinary experiences in our everyday lives are transformed by the most varied devices into images that are instantly uploaded online and distributed everywhere. With a short lifespan, they are seen for a few seconds, then make space to others and others to succeed them in an endless flow. However, far from opposing this technological world, painting is nourished by it. "Mais Pintura" aims at feeding the debate. In this world, painting almost becomes an oxymoron: slow to learn, create, enjoy and mainly, hard to define. And yet it persists.