FABLE, FRISSON, MELANCHOLY

Instituto Tomie Ohtake created the Arte Atual program in 2013, an experimental platform for presenting the researches of young artists, in which, through a question posed by the Curating and Research Department, a group of artists is invited to create a new project.

In its sixth edition, named Fábula, frisson, melancolia. (Fable, frisson, melancholy.), curators Paulo Miyada and Carolina de Angelis brought together Marcelo Cipis, Pedro Wirz and Tiago Tebet, catalysts for the imagery and sensibilities of our present time. In varied aesthetics, they echo parts of fables, frisson and melancholy: the mysterious - legends, myths - that overflow on the nature apprehended by humanity; the collective realization in the stages of spectacle; and inertia, disillusionment or impulses that are never realized.

"Each artist is aligned with a certain field of fables that cross through ordinary landscapes - urban, rural or the ones present in the collective imaginary. As artificers, they go beyond given forms and symbols, creating new and captivating images. In contrast with our current reality, however, they still reveal gaps, mismatches with this world that has become specialized with consuming dreams or selling them as decadents parodies of itself", the curators state.