Light ≅ Matter (Matter)

"Memento Mori" is an exemplar of the production that José Rufino realized with objects of his grandfather. A stain on the paper, remembering the shroud, stretches out along the bed, setting the idea of death, reinforced by the title "Memento Mori," a Latin term meaning something like "remember you're going to die."

We are Texas refers to the turbulent process of annexation of Texas, the former region of Mexico, by the United States, which resulted in the war between the two countries (1846), leaving the United States victorious and in the right to annex other Mexican regions , like California, thus completing its march to the west. The image resembles a cannon or battering ram, an object used in the Old Age and in the Middle Ages to break through the gates of walled towns or castles. Phallic resemblance also refers to sexual violence, to abuse, something that refers to the violence of one country over another.

Carlos Colombino conceived, in 1962, the technique known as xilopintura, which consists of digging the wood, as if it were the matrix of a woodcut, and then painting it. Instead of using it, therefore, to get prints, it becomes the end product. The work "Detritus" was present at the exhibition "Carlos Colombino - Summary of an Anthology" at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in 2006. It is part of a series that represents the empty planet, where the Earth was devastated and only debris, remains . Series inspired by Cerro Koi, a rocky outcrop located in Areguá, Paraguay.

With "Caipiras Objects", João Osorio Brzezinski shows how it would be the creation of high-tech objects made by a country man, like a color TV, something that did not exist in the 1960s in Brazil, where even black and white TV access was restricted. Such creations would, of course, be made with household objects such as basins, jars, crockery and other plastic utensils. The works were inspired by a scene from the movie "Mondo Cane" (1962) and are examples of Modernism in the plastic arts of Paraná.

It was by chance that Efigênia Rolim began to produce art. It was only in 1991 that she saw a bullet paper glittering in the sun so that she would be enchanted by that simple beauty. From there, she began to turn bullet papers into plastic flowers to then decorate with them doll dresses and then her own dresses. His idea expanded and production grew for larger objects and sculptures, all made from recyclable material.The work "Rainha do Planeta" represents a spirit of the protective nature of the planet.

The work "O Canto da Terra", with suggestions of a grotesque figure, is consistent with the production made from the 1970s by the Japanese resident in Brazil since 1932 Flávio Shiró. It was held in 1992 especially for Eco Art, an exhibition promoted by Banco Bozano, Simonsen, on the occasion of Eco 92, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in Rio de Janeiro. The 50 Brazilian painters and 70 others from other countries of America should carry out works inspired by ecology and the preservation of nature.