28th Panorama of Brazilian Art: (disorderly) 19 Disarrangements

The 28th Panorama proposed a novel approach: the curation and selection of artists encompassed the international context. Including different nationalities, the curatorship was headed by Cuban Gerardo Mosquera, with assistance from Panamanian curator Adrienne Samos. After extensive research, in addition to trips to 11 Brazilian cities, 21 national and international artists were selected, four of them working in pairs, and presented 66 works in the exhibition. In 2003, it was the first time that the Panorama received a subtitle: “(disarranged) 19 Desarrangements”. The number alludes to the number of participants in the exhibition and, in the text that is part of the catalogue, curator Gerardo Mosquera announces that this would be an “anti-panorama” Panorama. The proposal was not to examine the state of Brazilian art at that time, but rather an exhibition based on the concept of “disarrangements”, whose meaning can be directed both to an artistic practice that disorganizes structures and to the effects that such an innovative Panorama could have on the institutional context. After closing at the MAM, the exhibition went on an international tour, being received by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo (MARCO), in Spain, in 2005, with the title “20 Dessaranxos”, including the Galician artist Jorge Barbi.

Artists: Umberto Costa Barros | Paulo Climachauska | José Damasceno | Wim Delvoye | Fernanda Gomes | José Guedes | Adriano and Fernando Guimarães | Kan Xuan | Jorge Macchi | Cildo Meireles | Marcone Moreira | Vik Muniz | Ernesto Neto | José Patrício | Lucas Levitan and Jailton Moreira | Sara Ramo | Rubens Mano | Adriana Varejao | Alex Villar