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| Author(s): |
Felipe Eduardo Lazaro Braga
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2018-12-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Leopoldo Garcia Pinto Waizbort;
Sergio Miceli Pessoa de Barros;
Ricardo Nascimento Fabbrini;
Alexandre Barbosa Pereira
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| Advisor: | Leopoldo Garcia Pinto Waizbort |
| Abstract | |
The research presents the processes of approximation of graffiti and urban art towards the spaces of legitimation of contemporary art museums, galleries, biennials, fairs, etc. To do so, this study considers the variables of reception, production, and institutionalization of the language over 40 years of publications on the subject, among journalistic texts, documents belonging to museums that have received graffiti exhibitions, and legal or official archives related to the object. The text analyzes the aesthetic properties of the language beyond the immediately performed image, taking into account the aspects of subversive conquest of urban spaces, and the scenic location of the interventions, which is responsible, ultimately, for evoking different kinds of interpretation. From its colorful and figurative composition, virtuous graffiti develops relationships of belonging and enthusiasm with their respective surroundings, with significant repercussions on the official administration of visuality. The municipal authority, when endorses public policies to promote urban art, selects the type of image authorized to claim the attention of pedestrians, hierarchizing the interventions based on their legal support. In spite of this, the critical, specialized and erudite reception, contrary to the majority opinion of population, seeks in rebellion and aggressiveness the elements of interest and relevance that the language develops, and that reconciles graffiti with the provocative grammar of the contemporary art. In this sense, art institutions develop exhibition strategies that, at the discursive and curatorial level, bring the graffiti practice closer to the urgencies of life, denying, therefore, its condition of mere festive and virtuous image. The accumulation of prestige and notoriety that graffiti collects in the institutional circuit has significant repercussions on the dynamics of the city, which begins to adopt the repertoires of conservation, curation and artistic speculation that characterize the spaces of legitimacy. Methodologically, the language of pichação will be constantly evoked as an analytical counterfactual, given that the relative similarities between the two practices allow us to infer some of the specificities of graffiti recognition. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/23932-1 - Wall, museum and media: The assimilation of graffiti in the field of contemporary art through the pages of São Paulo press |
| Grantee: | Felipe Eduardo Lázaro Braga |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |