CAMPANAS

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ITINERANT SHOW OF BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN The oeuvre of Fernando and Humberto Campana is supported by observation. Their work narrates a reality marked by childhood recollections and the transitory adult feelings of happiness, despair, sexuality, creativity, love, courage and survival. This individual, different story is that of many at the same time. Although their work is a unique, original and revealing account, it simultaneously belongs to a common place of imagination - that of origin. Brazil and its contrasts - the favelas, poverty and wealth on the same street, built-up space and vacant territory, diversity, heat, waste, trivial and common material, low technology, artificiality and nature. The Campana's delicate sensitivity, their expression of the want of magical and intuitive happiness by a local language that has hardly been contaminated, has growingly fortified their work over the past twenty years. As everything is mutant, one of the most interesting conditions of their work lies in the uniqueness and craftwork of these objects, produced with a deep love of the chosen material, and their ambiguity and capacity to be transformed. These unrepeatable objects and their transformation render an idea of incompleteness. Design can thus be understood beyond the canons of technology and industrialisation, dictated to by industry and functionality. Hence their work entirely escapes the ghost of the multiple to achieve other references. These delicately incomplete objects have been arrested by their own vulnerability. Their understanding is complex. Capable of being submitted to diverse material and mental transformations, these objects can never be erased. This is how the expression unique object /incomplete object is inscribed into the filigree that underlies their work. Campanas presents their recent production from 2001 to 2003. Fernando and Humberto Campana work with place and its emotions. This is probably one of the most precious treasures that Brazil has to offer. Inside and outside. — VENUE: Valentim de Carvalho DATE: September 21 - October 25 //Curator: Nicola Goretti //Campana’s Production: Grupo AG //Executive Production: Valença Santiago, Nicola Goretti //Studio Production: Roberta Cosulich e equipa //Production - São Paulo: Eliane Guglielme //Architecture and General Consultants: Caetano Xavier de Albuquerque & Lígia de Medeiros //Scenography: Adriano e Fernando, Guimarães, Nicola Goretti & Eduardo Borém //Lightning: Dalton Camargos //Assistance: Sídney de Souza Jr. & Lígia de Medeiros //Photography: Cristiano Sérgio //Pieces Photography: Andrés Otero, Andréas Heiniger, Andre Conti, EDRA //Music: Clark (coisa) //Assistants: Vanessa Bugs Pereira, Eduardo Borém //Graphics: Beetle’s Designer //Coordination: Pedro Gadanho [EXD] //Production: Patrícia Rolo Duarte [EXD] //Assistant: Tiago da Fonseca [EXD]