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Item: The spirit of Rio

Simone Michelin

2007

Video, 00:10:18.
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The spirit of Rio reconfigures the cultural fabric of the city: baroque and performance, musical tradition and experimentation, musical-religious syncretism and carnival.

The video is a random and dream-like documentary of events occurred in Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2007. It is a narrative that comments in its proper constitution as documentary while it refers to art history and to the role of the image in the constitution of what we consider reality.

This work can be seen on the 5th floor of the museum (see groundplan)

Events

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A Rua — De Straat — Europ...
07 October 2011 - 22 January 2012.
The exhibition A Rua (The Street) showed work by some 20 Brazilian artists whose lives and work were closely linked to the city of Rio de Jan

Actors

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Simone Michelin
Simone Michelin is one of the leading artists of Brazil’s media arts scene, and her explorations of the multisensorial reality of aesthetic e

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