Paulo Bruscky

Discover the idea

Paulo Bruscky is the idea artist. His works are recorded as words: handwritten, typed, photocopied, printed. Only then do they become experiences for the five senses.

This exhibition brings together the artist's projects and actions. As it lasts from September to December 2014, certain actions will be continuous, some will be instantaneous and will remain as a record, and others will be in transit between the past and the future.

It could take years before a handwritten instruction in Paulo Bruscky's “idea banks” is realized. We are here bringing to life for the first time selected works from these “banks”, such as the film captured on September 1st, right here, in the museum auditorium: until then, it had been just a project; Afterwards, it will forever be a record of that day.

But MAM has an instruction from Paulo Bruscky for continuous action in its collection. One of the museum's employees will work regularly throughout the duration of the exhibition, live, in the exhibition room. Other actions will take place in the park where we are, according to a calendar, to be experienced by the public.

Works of a third type remain in transit: posted envelopes and their contents. The papers contained were made to circulate by mail, so they could be sent in new envelopes to other recipients. Mail art is endless.

Paulo Bruscky works by facing the challenge of time: between past, present and future, the idea resists the impermanent.

Felipe Chaimovich
Curator