Brazil

The Instituto Cervantes de São Paulo celebrates Women's History Month with the inauguration of two exhibitions by Spanish artists.

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The Surface Design course, taught by Celso Lima, explores perspective, volume, surfaces, and color through exercises focused on creating projects across various grids, such as direct rapport, scar, circular, and counter-exchange for tiles, reliefs, textiles, and diverse standardized structures like openwork and cobogós, flooring for hospital, urban, and transport areas, biome research, and other segments. The course will also cover the history of surface design from the 18th century onward and include the creation of prototypes and models.
Celso Lima is a visual artist, researcher, and professor of the history of design and textile technology. He was a co-curator of the 2018 exhibition "Vkhutemas: The Future in Construction" at Sesc Pompeia, co-author of the book "Vkhutemas: Drawing a Revolution," and author of the biography of Aleksei Gan in the book Constructivism. He currently works on the creation and production of textile art using various techniques and researches the history of Russian and Soviet design.

This theoretical and practical workshop, led by Lebanese architect and artist Angèle Keserwany, is open to anyone interested in exploring the world of raw earth as a medium and its potential for transformation into a building material. The workshop will take place in a single session, covering everything from theory and references on vernacular architecture to a hands-on creative exercise using earth construction techniques.

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The Escola da Cidade Open Courses are extension programs, extracurricular in nature and open to the entire community. They are aimed at anyone interested in expanding dialogues on topics such as history, anthropology, technology, economics, photography, literature, design, music, and more, through a cross-disciplinary lens on architecture and the city. Registration is open from March 4th until the start date of the chosen course.

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“Abstract Alchemy”
Group exhibition opens on May 1st at the Centro Cultural Correios RJ

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“Inhabitants of the Forest of Ourselves” opens on May 11

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