15-30 maggio 2023, “escribas – international exhibition of asemic writing” @ blumenau (brasile)

“ESCRIBAS – International Exhibition of Asemic Writing”

First Tour | FURB | Blumenau (Brasil)

The exhibition ESCRIBAS – I International Exhibition of Asemic Writing, promoted by The Virtual Museum of Visual Poetry in partnership with Instituto Imersão Latina, will be exhibited at the Universidade Regional de Blumenau – FURB. Recently exhibited at UFMG, the show brings together 26 works by artists from 18 countries, in the rare and still little-known language of Asemic Writing, setting up the first international collective exhibition of this modality held in Brazil.

Curated by Tchello d’Barros, a writer with 10 books published and currently living in Rio de Janeiro, the exhibition will be open for visitation between May 15th and 30th, in Bloco A of the FURB Campus 1, with free admission.

Participating Artists:

OPENING: Centro Cultural da UFMG | Belo Horizonte (MG) – Março, 2023

1ª TOUR: Saguão do Bloco A na FURB | Blumenau (SC) – Maio, 2023

Curatorial Text:

CALIGRAPHIC POETICS OF ASEMIC WRITING

by Tchello d’Barros*

“Asemic writing seems to be a gigantic, unexplored territory.”
Tim Gaze

The exhibition ESCRIBAS – I International Exhibition of Asemic Writing presents a collection of creations in images with abstract spellings, in the language that is becoming known as Asemic Writing. The set, made up of creations from different parts of the planet, also reveals the plurality of techniques, materials and supports for the realization of these works that transit between calligraphy, abstraction, engraving, digital art and even Visual Poetry. This show – in it’s first tour after the opening at UFMG – promoted by The Virtual Museum of Visual Poetry in partnership with the Instituto Imersão Latina, presents at the Universidade Regional de Blumenau – FURB, the itinerancy of 26 works by artists from 18 countries, setting up the first international collective exhibition of this modality held in Brazil.

Spontaneously arising in different cultures throughout history, consolidated as an artistic language at the end of the 20th century. XX, the Asemic Writing still very rare, has been gaining visibility, whether with exhibitions, publications, epistemological studies or placement on the Internet. This hybrid art, which transits between word and image, survived the typographic tsunami of the digital age, privileging as expressive manifestations, from handwriting, calligraphic gestures, varied techniques but also creations originated via computer graphics.

The works often consist of invented letters, words that retain calligraphic remnants, sentence fragments that form thought-provoking abstract figures, traces of writing and various experiments. In this decade, it has been configuring a movement that has expanded its network of supporters in all continents. It is an art free from academic labels, institutional immobilization and rigid conceptual limits. Drawing, painting, engraving, collage, digital art and interventions in photographs are just some of the resources present in this type of creations, presented here in a perspective of diversity of styles.

It is said of the works of Asemic Writing, which are purposely emptied of meaning – because they are absent of enunciation or message – which does not prevent them from making sense, from the perception of those who read or see them, since there is a silent dialogue between such contents and the entire lexical and imagery framework of those who immerse themselves in viewing these images.

Theorists of Art in Expanded Field or Expanded Poetry, usually place Asemic Writing in the broad scope of Experimental Poetry. So, provoking reflections on the poetic phenomenon in aspects that strain the limits of language, questioning aesthetic aspects of the hybridity characteristic of contemporary art and stimulating the debate about where the compass of poetic making points in our time, are some of the premises that guided the curatorial process for this show.

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*Tchello d’Barros is a writer, visual artist and curator. Master’s student and researcher at UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – april 2023

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Service:

Visitation: 15 a 30 de maio de 2023

Timetable: monday to friday: 07h to 22h and saturday: 08h to 12h

Location: Saguão do Bloco A – Campus 1 da FURB

Rua Antônio da Veiga, 140. Blumenau, Brazil

Free admission

Technical Sheet:

UNIVERSIDADE REGIONAL DE BLUMENAU

PRÓ-REITORIA DE PESQUISA, EXTENSÃO, PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO E CULTURA

DIVISÃO DE CULTURA

PROGRAMA DE PÓS GRADUAÇÃO EM EDUCAÇÃO – PPGE

CURSO DE ARTES VISUAIS

PROPEX – PRÓ-REITORIA DE PESQUISA, EXTENSÃO, PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO E CULTURA

Profª. Drª. MICHELE DEBIASI ALBERTON | Pró-Reitora

DIVISÃO DE CULTURA (Produção Local) RUAN RAFAEL ROSA – Coordenação geral

DARLAN JEVAER SCHMITT – Auxiliar

VITOR ANTÔNIO BRUCKMANN – Estagiário

CURSO DE ARTES VISUAIS | PPGEE

Profª. Drª. CARLA CARVALHO | Coord. Mediação

PROJETO ARTE NA ESCOLA | GPAEE

(Montagem e Mediação)

EDUARDO MARECHAS – JOSÉ INÁCIO SPERBER

JÚLIA BABEL – MARIA EDUARDA NUNES GRAF

INSTITUTO IMERSÃO LATINA

BRENDA MARQUES PENA | Parceria Institucional

IARA ABREU | Reserva técnica / Acervo

THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF VISUAL POETRY

TCHELLO D’BARROS | Curador

COMUNICAÇÃO e DESIGN GRÁFICO | Instituto Cultural Tchello D’barros

Links:

– Exposição “Escribas” no Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/events/1243414726286399/?active_tab=discussion

– Grupo de Pesquisa Arte e Educação | FURB

@gpaeefurb

www.facebook.com/gparteestetica

– Cultura FURB

www.furb.br/cultura

– Instituto Cultural Imersão Latina

www.imersaolatina.com

– The Virtual Museum of Visual Poetry

https://www.facebook.com/thevirtualmuseumofvirtualpoetry/

– Tchello d’Barros

@tchellodbarros

www.facebook.com/tchellodbarros

tchellodbarros.wordpress.com

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15-30 maggio 2023, “escribas – international exhibition of asemic writing” @ blumenau (brasile)

CALIGRAPHIC POETICS OF ASEMIC WRITING