It’s an intense month, for us at the ICBIE, this June, 2014. After the opening of the ME.PE., we had the pleasure of organizing another important event: “A bola é redonda” (The Ball Is Round) project, in collaboration with the German association, Lahn Artists. On Sunday the 15th, the exhibition, for the first time in Brazil, of the paintings in the series An die Natur – Sobre a Natureza (To Nature), by the German painter Renate Kuby, whose technique (creating images based upon suggestions offered to the artist by the chromatic effect of the the colors that she spread on the canvas) was carefully explained by our artistic director Pietro Gallina. The spectators were also curious to learn about the drawings on the theme “Our Cup,” realized by young aspiring artists, students of the plastic artist Josemar Oliveira, and it must be said that some of these beginning artists managed to escape from the celebratory rhetoric that so often accompanies anything having to do with soccer, echoing instead some of the criticisms that have emerged in Brazil regarding the mega-event of the World Cup. The multidisciplinary character of the the event was given by the projection of two videos. The first was tied to the theme “A Bola é Redonda,” proposing images (delightful ones) of amateur soccer players, that is, those who we like best. The second illustrated the German city of Hamburg, with an unexpected naturalistic bent, particularly if you consider that it is the second largest German city, for the number of inhabitants.
As planned in the program, there was also a projection on a big screen of the photographs from the international competition for professionals and amateurs. Before the showing, our president Marcella Sgura briefly explained to the public the rules for voting, announcing that on July 12th, when the World Soccer Cup will have arrived at its climax, four winners of the prizes (books or CDs) will be announced. Our dancer Emerson Ataide gave an improvised performance on the theme, “the ball,” and a musical show by the young Juliana Coelho concluded the event. In the meantime, a group of artists, exponents of the the graffiti movement in Salvador, painted, always on the soccer theme, the internal walls of the ICBIE – even after sunset – giving a new look. (Andrea Zeccato)
Photos by Micaela Metz, Steve Whitton and Pietro Gallina
