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Iberê Camargo Grant – 2008 Edition
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The eighth edition of the Iberê Camargo Grant gave artistic residencies abroad as prizes to two artists: one to the Blanton Museum of Art / University of Texas at Austin, USA, and the other one to Maus Hábitos / Espaço de Intervenção Artística, in Portugal.
Vijai Patchineelam was chosen to go to the United States with a project that relates the artist to the space, through the daily production. Interventions made in the studio are seen and documented by pictures, videos and books. Vijai graduated in Industrial Design – Product Project at EBA/UFRJ.
Ronald Duarte de Oliveira, winner to go to Portugal, has a master degree in Visual Languages (EBA/UFRJ) and presented three projects for visual actions and artistic interventions in the urban space. He focuses at working with social urgency: matters that have been happening and need to be exposed.
The Iberê Camargo Print Studio Invited Artist Programme selected Tamara de Souza Andrade, from São Paulo. Drawing is her main line of reseach, but she also studied painting, intaglio printing and art philosophy. Tamara has participated of 33 group exhibits and four individual ones in the last 13 years, both inside and outside of Brazil.
Ten other projects by 11 artists were selected to feature on the website: Carlos Mélo (PE), Celina Portella and Elisa Pessoa (RJ), Denise Ruschel Gadelha (RS), Felipe Cohen (SP), Gerson Reichert (RS), Lais Myrrha (MG), Mauro Piva (SP), Nino Cais (SP), Pitágoras Lopes Gonçalves (GO), Renzo Sogi Sato Assano (SP).
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Vijai Patchineelam
Ronald Duarte de Oliveira
Tamara de Souza Andrade
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Iberê Camargo Grant – 2007 Edition
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In its seventh edition, Iberê Camargo Grant offered two artistic residencies abroad: one to the Blanton Museum of Art / University of Texas at Austin, USA, and another one to the École de Beaux-Art in Rennes, France.
Marcelo Moschetta was selected to GO to France with the Project Le 48e parallèle nord: paysage, in which he works with the idea of moving in time and space, creating an on-board diary from the trips he is going to take around Bretagne, on parallel 48º. Marcelo is 30 years old and did his masters degree in Visual Arts at Unicamp, in Campinas.
Matheus Rocha Pitta won to go to the Blanton Museum of Art with the project Drive Thru. In Austin, he collected dirt in bags and filmed from the inside of a car. Matheus is 26 years old and since 2001 participates in individual and group exhibits. Studied History and Philosophy.
Matheus Rocha Pitta won to go to the Blanton Museum of Art with the project Drive Thru. In Austin, he collected dirt in bags and filmed from the inside of a car. Matheus is 26 years old and since 2001 participates in individual and group exhibits. Studied History and Philosophy.
In this year’s edition, the artist Mariannita Luzzati was also selected to participate in the Iberê Camargo Print Studio Invited Artist Programme. Painter, intaglio printer and videomaker, she is part of individual and group exhibits since the late 1980s. Among the galleries and museum in which her artworks were shown are: Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MAM/SP, MAC/USP, MAM/RJ, MAM/Bahia, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Palácio das Artes de Belo Horizonte and Museu Vale do Rio Doce, in Vitória. Mariannita was also one of the artists at the 22nd Biennial of São Paulo.
The ten artists chosen to feature on the website are: Alexandre Assaly (SP), Alexandre Murucci (RJ), Cristiano Lenhardt (RS), Fernanda Soares (RS), Guilherme Dable (RS), Guilherme Maranhão (SP), Luíza Baldan (RJ), Osvaldo Carvalho (RJ), Roberto Bellini (MG) e Vanderlei Lopes (SP).
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Marcelo Moschetta
Matheus Rocha Pitta
Mariannita Luzzati
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Iberê Camargo Grant – 2006 Edition
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The Iberê Camargo Grant selected two artists to go to two artistic residencies this year – one to the Art Institute of Chicago in the USA, and other to El Basilisco space in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Iara Freiberg, aged 29, won the Argentina award with a project entitled Ocupação, which proposes to occupy Buenos Aires with impressions of the city of São Paulo. The artist aims to record the life of the two cities through drawing and photography and make interventions in the streets and places of Buenos Aires. Iara Freiberg is a Brazilian of Argentinean parents and graduated in art from ECA/USP. She has taken part in 10 group exhibitions and had five solo shows in places such as SESC, Centro Cultural São Paulo and Casa de Cultura América Latina.
The winner of the Art Institute of Chicago residency was Wagner Malta Tavares. Born in 1964, he graduated in Social Communication from FAAP and has attended studios under the guidance of artists such as Sergio Romangnolo, Leda Catunda, Nazareth Pacheco, Laura Vinci and Nuno Ramos. His work focuses on sculpture and installation, but he also develops projects in video and performance.
The competition also selected the 25-year-old São Paulo artist, Laura Huzak Andreato, to take part in the Iberê Camargo Print Studio Invited Artist Programme. Laura qualified in Fine Art from ECA-USP and has exhibited in spaces such as the Centro Cultural São Paulo, Sesc, Centro Cultural São Paulo and the Centro Universitário Maria Antônia.
Ten artists will feature in the Iberê Camargo Foundation Digital Magazine: Bruno Vieira (PE), Fabrício Carvalho (MG), Ivan Martins Henriques (RJ), Letícia de Brito Cardoso (SC), Marcelo Solá (GO), Matheus Rocha Pitta (RJ), Patricia Osses (SP), Rommulo Conceição (RS), Rosana Monnerat (SP), Tatiana Blass (SP).
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Iara Freiberg
Wagner Tavares
Laura Andreato
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Iberê Camargo Grant – 2005 Edition
For its 5th edition, the Iberê Camargo Grant offered two foreign residency bursaries, one to the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, and another to the Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros and Galeria Garash, in Mexico.
Veronica Cordeiro won the grant to the United States with a project entitled The Unnameable, in which she will read the text of the same name by the playwright Samuel Becket in performances in public spaces in Chicago. The performances will be recorded on video and will be the starting point for another work. Veronica studied History of Art at Edinburgh University (Scotland) and has devoted herself to artistic research since 2001, when she started exhibiting. Since then she has carried out independent urban interventions in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, and taken part in groups show including Vizinhos, Galeria Vermelho, 2003 and Outro Lugar, Galeria Virgílio, 2004. The artist has had three one-person shows: Limbus Delirius, Centro Cultural São Paulo, 2001; Swing in Limbus, Galeria Baró Senna, 2002; and Operato: A-b-e-r-t-u-r-a e eX-posição, Galeria Virgílio, 2005.
Lia Chaia from São Paulo was selected for Mexico. The artist presented a project entitled Jardim ao Cubo. Her proposal is to discuss the tension between nature and culture, which unfolds in the impact between man and the city. The project thus proposes an installation with painting direct onto the wall, involving the combination of grey and green, and the production of a video based on the Mexican landscape. Lia Chaia graduated in Fine Art from FAAP, and took part in a residency programme at the Cité des Arts, Paris, in 2003. Her main group shows include Corpo de Baile, Galeria Vermelho, 2003; O Corpo entre o público e o privado, São Paulo and Belém, 2004; and Artista Personagem, Maria Antonia, 2004. The artist has had three one-person exhibitions: Experiências com o Corpo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2002; A Sala de Lia, Campinas, 2003; and Vereda, Programa Sítio, Base 7, 2004.
The competition selected ten artists to be highlighted in the website’s Digital Magazine: Ducha (Eduardo Menezes Pacheco), Rio de Janeiro; Chiara Banfi, São Paulo; Rafael Campos Rocha, São Paulo; Egidio Rocci, São José dos Campos; Marina Camargo, Porto Alegre; Rubens do Espírito Santo, São Paulo; Rafael Alonso, Rio de Janeiro; Jorge Menna Barreto, Porto Alegre; Alice Miceli, Rio de Janeiro; Rogério Pereira Cannella, São Paulo. Juliano de Moraes, from Goiânia, was selected to spend a week on the Iberê Camargo Foundation Invited Artist Programme.
Iberê Camargo Grant – 2004 Edition
The fourth edition of the Iberê Camargo Grant, in 2004, selected Marcius Galanfrom the 126 entrants. The artist proposed a project entitled Backlight, which he would develop over three months at the Art Institute of Chicago. Marcius, aged 31, was born of Brazilian parents in the United States and came to Brazil aged one. He studied at Faap, and has been researching into the functionality of objects for some time. In Chicago, Marcius would use illuminated signs that were no longer used for advertising images, restore these structures and photograph them inserting the image of their insides in the place of the advertising photograph. Alongside, one of Marcius’s billboard works.
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Iberê Camargo Grant – 2003 Edition
The winner of the third Iberê Camargo Grant was Glaucis de Morais, from Porto Alegre. Hers was the winner of the 160 projects and she earned a trip to the Cité Internationale des Arts, in Paris. Glaucis, aged 31, would develop a project entitled Reservado / Réservé in the French capital, an urban intervention consisting of placing transparent acrylic signs inscribed Réservé (“reserved”) on seats in squares or public places. The project is complemented by photographic records of these exercises, which were then later shown in an exhibition. Alongside, a photo of the intervention in Porto Alegre in 2002.
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Iberê Camargo Grant – 2002 Edition
Carla Borba was the artist who won the second Iberê Camargo Grant. Selected from 104 entrants, the Rio Grande do Sul artist stayed in Paris during July, August and September 2002. During this time she studied at Cité Internationale des Arts, continuing the Álbum de Família (Family Album) project, in which she recreated photographs taken in the past, depicting people in suits and scenes similar to those of her childhood photographs. Alongside, one of the works by the young artist.
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Iberê Camargo Grant - 2001 Edition
There were 47 entrants for the first Iberê Camargo Grant. One of whom was the Rio artist Eduardo Costa , who was selected as the winner. He won with a project entitled Migrações, and travelled to London between October and December 2001 to study at the London Print Studio. During the residency Eduardo continued the work of his project, creating systems for making images similar to those he had been developing in Rio de Janeiro. Alongside, a drawing created in the boot of the artist’s car using equipment that records the movement of the car as a drawing.
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