art and history of exhibitions

on Talisson Melo

Dates: November 27th, December 04st, 11th and 18th
Thursdays
Hour: 19h to 21h
Duration: 04 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R$ 350,00 + fees

Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Course includes certificate at the end

How does art history become part of the imagination through exhibitions?
And how do the political issues of the present time take part in processes of reviewing the past and developing the relationship between art and society?

These questions are the reflective coordinates of this course, focusing on some visual arts exhibitions that mark the historiography of art in Brazil in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as recent curatorial projects that aim to retrospectives and critical dialogues with the history of art and culture.

We will also address the acquisition policies and exhibition programming of some cultural institutions, to re-evaluate the interventions of current policies in visions of the past that project into the future and constantly rewrite the history of art.

Developing the notion of “chronopolitics,” the topics that structure the course encompass disputes and discursive actions surrounding concepts of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, geographic origin, migration, and the environment, in their connections with artistic production and the contexts of its presentation—especially exhibitions and their catalogs.

Among the course's central examples, we will focus on some exhibitions held at the MAM in São Paulo, such as its opening show From Figurativism to Abstractionism (1949), the 6th São Paulo International Biennial (1961), organized by the museum's management, the show 2080 (2003) and the latest edition of the Panorama of Brazilian Art, Mil graus (2024).

Agenda

Class 1: The times of art

• The history of art as a discipline and its relationship with exhibitions and museums
• Historiographical practice in modernity and the construction of modern art
• Socioaesthetic categories of art in contemporary times
• Exhibition curation as historiographical mediation

Class 2: Biennials as symbolic worlds

• From universal fairs to art biennials
• The category “contemporary art” and the boundaries of art
• The MAM São Paulo Biennials
• The emergence of curation

Class 3: Museums and their temporalities

• The creation of museums of modern and contemporary art
• The past as a museum of novelties
• Safeguard zones and visibility zones
• Reviewing and rewriting the past

Lesson 4: Present-day Policies

• Affirmative policies for the visual arts
• Body, identity and new versions of the past
• Land and migration in temporal flows
• Geopolitical categories in exhibitions

Tálisson Melo

Tálisson Melo is a curator, researcher, and professor. He holds a PhD in Sociology and Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a doctoral internship in cultural sociology at Yale University (USA), and a Master's in Arts from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, where he researched the emergence of curatorship in Brazil and geopolitical categories in the São Paulo Biennials.

She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo, researching the trajectories of Brazilian artists and the institutionalization of their legacies. She holds a bachelor's degree in Arts and Design from UFJF, with a concentration in Art History from the University of Salamanca (Spain).

He currently works as a curator-researcher in private and public art collections, collaborating with museums, galleries, independent spaces and educational institutions.

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credits

exhibition view 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art: A thousand degrees. Photo: EstúdioEmObra