Arte Clube Jacaranda
Arjan Martins, Cabelo, Maria Laet, Mariana Manhães, Oskar Metsavaht, Paulo Vivacqua, Tomas Ribas, Vicente de Mello.
Arte Clube Jacaranda was formed in Rio de Janeiro in 2014 with the aim of promoting the meeting of artists and the creation of a contemporary art platform composed of publications, such as Jacaranda magazine, which brings together a broad spectrum of critical texts, collective exhibitions with guest curators, and diverse art projects, such as the occupation of independent and institutional spaces, fostering the expansion of the visuality of Brazilian art.
Ópera Jacaranda is a collective installation project by Arte Clube Jacaranda, conceived to expand the concept of plural work, presenting a mixture of artists that will define the meaning of the Barroco-Pororoca pulse, as vertices of its poetic dynamics in national art.
The project is modulated in its visual aspect as a proto-opera, bringing together the first ideas in a process of discussion: what would the group be like if it were an opera? Linear and vertical, magnetic and fascinating? How to allow the starting point of its dimension?
From there, the literary structure of this work is elaborated as a large collection of thoughts: a story to be told as visual poetry, connecting the passerby (guests, visitors and employees) to a powerful visualization, covering one of the corridors of the Rosewood São Paulo in such a way that the sensation of a labyrinth fully involves everyone, in a single instant.
Each artist has, in their individual image, the basis for the making of the silkscreen, applied directly to the wall in sequence. The union of their leaves offers the eyes an impressive visual opera, full of color, shape and surprises – like the bursting of a wave or the impact of a broth, the same sensation as when we are swallowed by the sea and returned to the sand, at the moment when we reach the Barroco-Pororoca-Ópera apex.