Lugar Possível: 1985/1995: as artes plásticas em Belo Horizonte

Abstract

What follows is a structural overview and the relevant points of all the work that generated this PhD thesis. The results are ordered in four stages: the introduction discusses the research object. The first chapter presents the main historical references that outlined the visual arts context during the 80s, in Belo Horizonte. In the second , the guest artist's testimonies about the 80's in Belo Horizonte, that were video recorded, are presented. The third section contains an approach on the city's art landscape in those years, as well as an image album showcasing the artist's paintings and drawings. What I have called the fourth section presents an overview of the atmosphere of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 80's, with images, state of affairs and comments on the artist's work during that time. Finally, an international overview with comments on the movements and work of art of some of the time's most influential artists. The recorded statements give evidence to the cultivation of its own vocabulary, often colloquial, translating, as a choreography of the multiple, the marks of a decade and a group of artists whose practical action was the fundamental condition for the acquisition of knowledge.