What is good taste? In this panel, Leda Catunda brings together various materials and images associated with the pleasant: winding landscapes, undulating curves, kittens, printed fabrics, intense colors. Such elements are brought closer to the public by the artist's crafty work, as the lines of the drawings seem childish and spontaneous, as do the cutouts that delimit the various pieces. The strategy to bring the public closer to the work involves recognizing the various familiar aspects contained within it. However, its presence in a museum poses a problem: why is it considered art, while a beautiful amateur drawing would not be? By managing to awaken this reflection in the public, the artist questions the parameters of taste, art, banality and erudition: thus messing with our present values, the landscape becomes modern.
Felipe Chaimovich
Curator
Leda Catunda (São Paulo, SP, 1961)
Modern landscape, 2019
Paper and fabric collage and object painting
Artist's collection