FLORES DO MAL (PETIT A): DORA LONGO BAHIA.; Tradução e notas Ivan Junqueira
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- São Paulo: Edições Tijuana; Galerias Vermelho, 2011
São Paulo: Edições Tijuana; Galerias Vermelho, 2011. color plates, facs., sig., color pict. wrps. Digital print on coated paper. LIMITED, SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION 46/50. This Artists’ Book is a digital printing on paper of the pictorial intervention that multimedia artist Dora Longo Bahia (b. São Paulo SP 1961) did on a Portuguese translation of French modernist poetry book ”Les Fleurs du mal” (Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire (b. France 1821 - 1867). Most of the paintings are of scenes from the film Petit A, directed by Dora, mixed with scenes and images of Godard, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Courbets, David Linch, Lars Von Triers, along with portraits of important philosophers, etc., all painted and drawn on the pages of the influential 19th century edition.
Born in 1961, Dora Longo Bahia literally lived her childhood in the shadow of a military junta that was no friend of vanguard artists and intellectuals on the left. As if to mark the momentous transition that occurred in 1984/5, Dora Longo Bahia first emerged as an artist with the demise of the military junta during those years. In 1984, she was in group shows of graphic artists in Sao Paulo, as well as in Panama, and in 1985, her work was selected for the 8th Salao Nacional de Artes Plasticas in Rio de Janeiro. Since then she has won critical recognition in a variety of media covering printmaking, paintings, and videos (two of which we will show tonight) through inclusion in over forty group shows and over a dozen solo exhibitions, not only in Brazil, but also in Argentina, Belgium, France, and Switzerland. One of her major recent shows consisted of an intriguing presentation of the films from 1969-75 of a previously “unknown” artist, Marcelo do Campo, at the Centro Cultural Maria Antonia in Sao Paulo.
Born in 1961, Dora Longo Bahia literally lived her childhood in the shadow of a military junta that was no friend of vanguard artists and intellectuals on the left. As if to mark the momentous transition that occurred in 1984/5, Dora Longo Bahia first emerged as an artist with the demise of the military junta during those years. In 1984, she was in group shows of graphic artists in Sao Paulo, as well as in Panama, and in 1985, her work was selected for the 8th Salao Nacional de Artes Plasticas in Rio de Janeiro. Since then she has won critical recognition in a variety of media covering printmaking, paintings, and videos (two of which we will show tonight) through inclusion in over forty group shows and over a dozen solo exhibitions, not only in Brazil, but also in Argentina, Belgium, France, and Switzerland. One of her major recent shows consisted of an intriguing presentation of the films from 1969-75 of a previously “unknown” artist, Marcelo do Campo, at the Centro Cultural Maria Antonia in Sao Paulo.