CLAUDIO GOULART AT ZIELINSKY BARCELONA
Zielinsky presents in its Barcelona space Gladiators of the future, a solo exhibition by Claudio Goulart (Brazil, 1954 - The Netherlands, 2005) that continues Fragmentos da Memória, the exhibition on Goulart held at the gallery's headquarters in São Paulo. The show addresses themes of politics, the body and time, the usual axes of the Brazilian's production, which relied on his life experience as the main source.
Goulart developed his artistic practice between the first half of the 1970s and the early 2000s in Amsterdam, a favorable environment for his proposals and research on performance, video art, photography and mail art, where he kept in touch with other artists like Flávio Pons, with whom he signed joint works, or the Mexican Ulises Carrión.
The exhibition traces the Brazilian's production from that complete chronology, from his beginnings to his latest actions. Tarot Cards (1979) alludes to the intervention in a closed system and, technically, it also represents those rubber tampons he used as an instrument of mass production to repeat drawings.
There is also room for documentation, such as On Ice, a joint work photographed by Vera Chaves Barcellos that portrays an action by Cláudio Goulart and Flávio Pons in Amsterdam, or in Dialogs (1980) and Lovers (1980), both presented in 1978 as a performance at the Galerie Bedaux in Amsterdam.
Already at the dawn of the new century, Goulart produced a series of digital collages, THE PRINTOUT (2000), in which he already alluded to the critical need for political and migratory aspects, as well as urban planning.
Claudio Goulart. Gladiators of the future can be seen until November 22nd at Zielinsky's Barcelona headquarters, passatge de Mercader, 10, Barcelona (Spain).
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