FábulaFrissonMelancolia- Marcelo Cipis

Marcelo Cipis presents the video that was originally created for the 1991 São Paulo Biennale, together with a large 2.5mx6m painting that reproduces the backdrop used in the video. Furthermore, there are ten paintings that emphasize the clatter and the unfinished, characteristics rarely seen in the artist's work, but which are present in pieces from different periods and even more so in recent times. They depict a media environment, inhabited by promises of happiness and well-being. With affection, the artist imagined the face of a kind corporatism, in apparently unpretentious humorous images. The 1991 video, which promotes the “Cipis Transworld, Art, Industry & Commerce” company, points to a world in which technology and market would live harmoniously together with art and creativity. Time, however, reveals the anguish behind laughter - the discontent that begins, resumes and provokes short-circuits in a previously clear and precise trace. Paintings and drawings show indecision and procedural uncertainty.