Lucia Koch integrates the selection of artists present in Vai, vai, Saudade, a group show curated by Cristiano Raimondi, on view through September 30, at Museo Madre, in Napoli, Italy.
The exhibition offers a poetic pathway, exploring a series of stories related to the art produced in Brazil since WWII. These are “travel notes” that merge together to form a free but interconnected exhibition itinerary of formal and conceptual, spiritual and earthly, political and geographical themes that together form the basis of a narrative that follows a novel-like logic. Touching on pressing issues of continental, modern and contemporary Brazil, the exhibition takes its title from a samba composed by Heitor dos Prazeres (Rio de Janeiro, 1898 – 1966), a Carioca artist who was among the first to be subjected to censorship by the military dictatorship in 1964.