Fullgás – visual arts and the 1980s in Brazil is the name of the exhibition that the Centro Cultura do Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro offers to the public, starting next Wednesday (2), as part of the celebrations for the 35th anniversary of the CCBB RJ. The unprecedented exhibition will present around 300 works by more than 200 artists from all regions of the country.
The visitor will have the opportunity to maintain contact with a broad panorama of Brazilian arts in the 1980s. The exhibition is completed by elements of the visual culture of the time, such as magazines, pamphlets, album covers and iconic objects, expanding the reflection on the period.
Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Exhibition celebrating 35 years of CCBB RJ. Photo: Thais Alvarenga/CCBB RJ/Disclosure
The project is sponsored by BB Asset, Banco do Brasil’s fund manager, through the Federal Culture Incentive Law. BB Asset’s commercial and product director, Mário Perrone highlights that the manager’s responsibility goes beyond asset management.
“Sponsoring the ‘Fullgás’ exhibition reinforces our commitment to the future, investing not only in results, but also in what transforms a society: culture and art”, stated Perrone.
For Raphael Fonseca, chief curator, and Amanda Tavares and Tálisson Melo, deputy curators of the exhibition, “Fullgás, like Marina Lima’s music, wants the public to have contact with a generation that deposited much of its existential energy in only in making art, but also in new country and citizenship projects. A generation that, on this journey, went from intensity to awareness of the ephemerality of things, of life.
The exhibition will occupy all eight rooms on the first floor of the CCBB RJ, in addition to the rotunda, and will be divided into five conceptual groups whose names are songs from the 1980s: What country is this” (1987), “Beat accelerated” (1985) , “Electronic diversions” (1980), “Birds in the throat” (1982) and “Time doesn’t stop” (1988).
In the CCBB roundabout there will also be an installation with balloons by the artist from Pará based in Rio de Janeiro Paulo Paes. “The balloon is an ephemeral object, which brings a festive theme, of color and movement”, inform the curators. Still on the ground floor, a newsstand with magazines, vinyls, books and comic books published in the period, with notable facts from the time, will bring the public into the atmosphere of the exhibition.
