Photo Tour
In this tour through the 11th Biennale de Lyon are shown artworks by aprox. 50 participants.
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Arthur Bispo do Rosário did the great bulk of his work during the fifty years following December 1938, when he was admitted to the Colônia Juliano Moreira, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. His entry into the asylum was the moment the artist started on an artistic path with an intensity and freedom that would see him create one of the most marvelous bodies of work in Brazilian art. Bispo’s method combined autobiography and creative practice. The blue thread he used for his embroideries came from the psychiatric hospital uniforms. And recent criticism suggests that Bispo made use of the protection and stability of the asylum to create his work.
Bispo’s output expressed his experience of the Universe. He endlessly listed every single person he met, and his works incorporated every element he came across in his daily life. He declared his belief in God, but still criticized dogmatic stances, in hundreds of texts obsessively rendered in innumerable embroideries. Bispo asserted his belief in the power of art, the imagination, and play as crucial tools for the acquisition of knowledge.
(From the short guide)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
In this tour through the 11th Biennale de Lyon are shown artworks by aprox. 50 participants.