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Email PageFrontiers: New York-Rio by Bus
November 30, 2006- December 30, 2006
Reception: November 30, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cleverson
M.Y. Art Prospects
547 W 27th St Cleverson Tina e Domenico (Las Alimas, Mexico) (2005) |
Born and raised in Brazil, Cleverson moved to New York in 1996 to pursue his career as an international artist. Nine years later in 2005, he took unusual routes to his hometown in Brazil, across the North, Central, and South Americas. In 38 days, he crossed 12 countries almost entirely by bus: the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. The exhibition, entitled Frontiers: A Journey Through the Americas, is based on this trip that challenges both geographical and psychological limits.
While incorporating documentary materials such as photography, video, notes and interviews, the exhibition alludes to an old fashioned narrative. It seems that Cleverson creates a character to tell his story as a traveler. The contents of Frontiers witnessed by this character are full of unknown lands and unexpected, unplanned events. It is, however, felt less romantic and heroic than expected. It evokes invisible barriers among the Americas while the character encounters and interacts with the locals, indigenous peoples, and other travelers.
A dramatic multimedia installation and a live performance by actors (the latter is for opening night only) contribute to Cleverson's eerie storytelling style. The highlight of the artifacts is a large mural drawing of a mountain in the Andes directly executed onto the center wall. This landscape, seen from a town called Mendoza near Santiago, Chile, symbolizes the entire South American continent and connects East and West as a gateway for Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Meanwhile, a DVD showing the section of his trip in Central America is shown from atop a platform placed in front of the mural so that the landscape works as a theatrical backdrop. For the DVD, Clerverson mixes the footage of the trip with allegorical imagery and sounds suggesting the exhibition's various themes.
Cleverson was born in 1972 in Brazil. He studied sculpture at the Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná. He has shown works including drawing, sculpture, and film at various venues in New York as well as Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro. Most recently, he held a solo exhibition at Museu de Arte Contemporãnea do Paraná in Brazil. His past solo exhibitions with M.Y. Art Prospects gallery are "Golden Years" (2004) and "Cleverlandia 2002" (2002).
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Don't miss our current solo exhibition by Cleverson: "Frontiers: New York-Rio by Bus: A Journey Through the Americas." Following a big success at our opening last week, we will screen again his latest film from this exhibition in a large format.
Thursday, December 14, 7PM
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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