{"id":15491,"date":"2024-08-19T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/uncategorized\/aline_bispo_somatoria_forcas\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T14:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:37:48","slug":"aline_bispo_somatoria_forcas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/past\/aline_bispo_somatoria_forcas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aline Bispo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aline Bispo<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=”” animation=”animation bottom-to-top”]\n

24 August to
\n18 October 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luis Maluf Galeria<\/em>
\nRua Brigadeiro Galv\u00e3o, 996<\/em>
\nBarra Funda, S\u00e3o Paulo, SP<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1678972569582{padding-left: 30px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}”][vc_empty_space mobile_height=”30px” height=”0px”][vc_column_text css=”” animation=”animation bottom-to-top”]\n

Somat\u00f3ria de For\u00e7as [Summation of Forces]<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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It’s pure coincidence that Aline and I, both from S\u00e3o Paulo of Bahian descent, have the same surname. We and so many other \u2018Bispos\u2019 are probably descended from a certain Ant\u00f4nio Nicanor de Alc\u00e2ntara Bispo, who was, at the end of the 19th century, the 2nd secretary of the Sociedade Beneficente Uni\u00e3o Filantr\u00f3pica dos Artistas, founded in Salvador in 1889. Beyond this distant kinship, we are also linked by a common interest in the forces of Afro-Brazilian sacredness.<\/p>\n

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Aline, who has been working on this theme in her work for almost a decade, follows the trail blazed by artists who came before her, and stands alongside her contemporaries in researching the experience of the sacred in Afro-Brazilian art. Just to name a few, among many others, artists: Arthur Bispo do Ros\u00e1rio, Mestre Didi, Heitor dos Prazeres, Ronaldo R\u00eago, Djanira da Motta e Silva, Jos\u00e9 Ad\u00e1rio, Mois\u00e9s Patr\u00edcio, Eneida Sanches, Raquel Cambinda, Ant\u00f4nio Ob\u00e1, Sheyla Ay\u00f3, N\u00e1dia Taquari, Rodrigo Bueno, Maria Auxiliadora, Niobe Xand\u00f3, Caryb\u00e9, Terciliano J\u00fanior, Chico Tabibuia, Ana Pi, Renata Felinto, Silvana Mendes, Antonio Pulquerio, Denise Camargo. This number of names shows that Aline Bispo is not alone in this artistic circuit that draws its poetic strength from the sacred.<\/p>\n

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In the solo exhibition Somat\u00f3ria de for\u00e7as, the artist, whose paintings can be seen on the gables of buildings in the vicinity of Luis Maluf (Barra Funda), presents works produced over the last five years, some of them new, made under the inspiration of contact with more or less well-known festivals in the Afro-Brazilian calendar: Bar\u00e1 do Mercado, Festa de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte, 02 de Fevereiro, Nossa Senhora Aparecida, Feira de Baiano, etc.<\/p>\n

A s\u00e9rie Orix\u00e1s, encantados, santos e voduns, de 2023, como o pr\u00f3prio nome assinala, aproxima em um \u00fanico gesto po\u00e9tico a est\u00e9tica complexa inerente \u00e0s religi\u00f5es afro-brasileiras que, resultantes da di\u00e1spora, misturam refer\u00eancias sagradas em um jogo de revela-esconde. Assim, onde se v\u00ea a forma de um santo cat\u00f3lico, em sua vers\u00e3o revestido de tecido estampado, v\u00ea-se tamb\u00e9m uma divindade africana, seja porque um fio de contas colorido est\u00e1 ali como um lembrete ou porque o nome da obra indica tratar-se de deuses africanos e afro-brasileiros.<\/p>\n

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Among the paintings, the brushstrokes, sometimes smooth and sometimes expressive, take up sacred icons such as Iemanj\u00e1, Santo Ant\u00f4nio, S\u00e3o Benedito, the women of Boa Morte and a Bab\u00e1 (father in Yoruba). Saint Anthony, still syncretised on the African continent with Ex\u00fa, is positioned near the entrance to the gallery. Covered in black fabric, under his feet are jars of coins and strips of satin suggesting the multiplication of paths.<\/p>\n

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The palette used by the artist is spread throughout the exhibition: blue, white, black and red. Although these colours are widely known by their European names, in the Angolan Candombl\u00e9 and Jeje Nag\u00f4 traditions they are given their own ritual names. Thus, in the first tradition, white is luvemba, red tukule or tukula, black kala; in the second, blue is waji, red osun and white efun. How much plastic beauty emerges from the juxtaposition of these colours!<\/p>\n

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It is blue that organises the photographic composition of Asunci\u00f3n, from 2019. In this series, Aline offers three identical versions of Our Lady of Aparecida, but with different models. Kicked off national television in 1995, here and in other parts of the exhibition the patron saint of Brazil is materialised in young women. This is a state of multiplied spiritual ascension. Their hands hold the same crucifix of pearl and metal acorns. Another incarnation of the patron saint are the plaster representations produced by the sacred industry, modified, however, by covering them in coloured fabrics.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition features two flags printed with the image of the twins Cosme and Dami\u00e3o, also known by the Nag\u00f4 term Ibeji. Aline also explores the shape of an altar, inspired by the relationship of opposition and complementarity between familiar spirits – rada – or aggressive spirits – petro, present in the Haitian Vodou religion. This reference to Voodoo gives the exhibition environment a sense of transition between zones of light and shadow.<\/p>\n

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With a mixture of sacred references as an abundant ingredient in her poetics, Aline Bispo pursues a path in which she recognises the value of syncretism in Brazilian culture, understanding that despite its negative aspects, in the sense that historically it has led to the concealment of cultural practices of African origins, it has also generated unprecedented strengths.<\/p>\n

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In 2024, studies on Afro-Brazilian art, the landmark of which is Nina Rodrigues’ text, As bellas artes dos colonos pretos – a esculptura, from 1904, will be 120 years old. At this time, initiatives such as the Somat\u00f3ria de for\u00e7as exhibition broaden and strengthen knowledge about the multifaceted history of plastic expressions of faith in the country, which continues to inspire the field of visual arts.<\/p>\n

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We would like to thank Luis Maluf and his team for their support and partnership in building this exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Alexandre Araujo Bispo<\/p>\n

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Solo Exhibition<\/b>
\n24 Aug 2024 \u2013 18 Oct 2024<\/p>\n

Luis Maluf Galeria
\nRua Brigadeiro Galv\u00e3o, 996
\nBarra Funda, S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[289,290],"class_list":["post-15491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past","tag-aline-bispo-en","tag-sincretismo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luismaluf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}