Personals | Interviews
Penelope UMBRICO by Juliana Monachesi / / Dreams of Penelope
Date: September 25 [Sunday]
Time: 15h/16h30
Where: House of Culture [R. Geralda 117]
Penelope works Umbrico imagery produced by the Internet, the possibility of technology generated and their conceptual relationship with the peculiar temporality that it causes. Fragments and reorganizes existing works in a new light, challenging the volatilization of contemporary art and simulations that represent them. His famous series Sunset Portraits was created from fragments taken from Flickr and question, a blow, the fate of so much visual information that flana the cyber world and our real world too.
Post-graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, United States, where he earned his MFA, and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada, the artist has presented his works and installations in Canada, the United States and France and participated in exhibitions in Belgium, Holland, Australia and Japan, among others. Special guest of Paraty in Focus, will be interviewed by journalist Juliana Monachesi, which is post graduate in Communication and Semiotics and wrote about the visual arts to major Brazilian publications. His dissertation break standard New Paradigms for art criticism in the context of digital culture is afinadíssima with artistic Umbrico proposal, which will make this table a must for understanding the future of the photographic image.
Circuit Exhibition Galleries and Occupations
Penelope UMBRICO / / / / Sunset + TV from Craigslist
Date: 21-25 September [from Wednesday to Sunday]
Time: Wednesday from 19h / / Thursday to Saturday from 10am / / Sunday 10h/18h
Where: Tent Matrix - Space Multimedia [Cathedral Square]
The Tent of the Matrix display that receives two are complementary, both the American artist invited Penelope Umbrico. On one side we find the work entitled Portraits Sunsets, are appropriations Flickr Photo of the sunset, one of the reasons most photographed. Across the wall, we present TV from Craigslist, this time there are clippings of images from the screens of TVs advertised on Craigslist. The interaction between the content and the opposition of two exhibitions questions reinforce the artist's work, ownership of content and our excessive exposure images.
Workshops
Penelope UMBRICO / / Ownership - The Internet as a file
Date: September 23 [Friday]
Time is now: 09h/17h
Where: Cultural Silo [R. Dr Samuel Costa 12]
R $: 390
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The term ownership in the world of art, means the act or effect of taking to themselves, seize the whole or parts of a work, to build another. Recurring theme in contemporary art, the appropriation of images will be the focus of the workshop of the American Umbrico Penelope. With its abundance of information, the Internet is a constantly changing picture of our collective activities, desires, wishes and needs. As an inexhaustible source of visual information, the web can be thought of as a space where the appropriation of images is not an act other than taking pictures. However, the Internet, practice ownership, implicit in all aspects of photography, becomes explicit.
Using the Web as a "database" on which the artist moves to create their own work, students will be invited to explore, even before the workshop begins, the appropriation through various exercises that will consider the narrative, the public and private intimacy, the desire of authorship, originality, the collective and individual as possible starting points for developing projects that use photography as a language and support. Penelope has all this sidewalk on the strength of his work, which has earned him exhibitions in Canada, USA, Belgium, Holland, Australia and Japan, plus a book published by Aperture.
* Workshop in English
Program:
. Presentation of the teacher and his work
. Discussion: The Internet as a file
. Analysis of the material produced by the students before the workshop
. Proposal for a collective exercise
. Analysis of the material produced in the workshop
What to bring to the course:
. Laptop
The work of artist Penelope Umbrico, as is the imagery created are forged in the Internet, a kind of absorption of technology and its implications more direct as planned obsolescence. She transcribes the fragmented images of sites in the construction of new works that question the synthesis of contemporary art and the promises and simulations suggest that in these matters. The series also works Portraits Sunset gathering these fragments extracted images from Flickr and question so compelling, what is the legacy of these amazing amount of visual information to the cyber world flana ¶ Post-graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, in the United, where he earned his MFA, and the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada, the artist has presented his works and facilities in Canada and the United States, participating in exhibitions in Belgium, Holland, Australia and Japan, among other countries . The images of the artist can also be seen in the book Penelope Umbrico (photographs) published by the Aperture Foundation. Born in Philadelphia, lives and works in New York. 
