MARLON DE AZAMBUJA: EDITORA CALLE

Marlon deAzambuja presents his first solo exhibition at Marilia Razuk Gallery on August 13th. The exhibition includes two series of artworks, one called Editora Calle [Street Press], the title of the exhibition, and the second one Furacão Brasileiro [Brazilian Hurricane].

In Editora Calle the artist explains that he works as a publisher in this project. “I invite curators, artists, writer  sand other people in some way familiarized with writing, to write about the city/ street, the approach and style of the text is completely free for them to choose.” he explains. Marlon then transforms those texts into stencils and publishes them in the street, as graffiti. Urban intervention is present in many of his works, characterized as an ephemeral art, the occupation of public spaces through light, color and forms and thus creating new perceptions of our surroundings.

In the exhibition, the artist will bring photographic registers of these interventions, in small format, as well as the stenciled sheets hung on the walls of the gallery, in real size. In Marlon’s proposal, the spectator has afar greater relation with the text than with the image itself. The texts will be in Portuguese and Spanish, the respective languages of the places where the actions were accomplished: São Paulo (Brazil, country where he was born) andMadrid (Spain, the country where he currently lives and works).

The second group of artworks, Furacão Brazileiro Marlon de Azambuja “edits” current publications, acknowledged in the world of contemporary art, removing from them all the artists who are not Brazilian. He transforms the books into special editions, leaving only the Brazilian artists.“It is a work that refers to the great moment of the Brazilian art in the international panorama, and at the same time, it is an act of piracy”, affirms the artist. It discloses, thus, his constructive and deconstructive ability, leading to different daily objects something else, extending or destroying the meaning, the esthetic and function of it.

The exhibition will be open to the public from August 13th until September 10th.

MARLON DE AZAMBUJA 

was born in Santo Antônio da Patrulha, RS, Brasil, 1978. 

He lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

The work of Marlon de Azambuja reaffirms the plastic potential of the neo concrete art exercises in urban interventions, installations and collages. He revisits the “Metaesquemas” of Hélio Oiticica, or even the spatial reliefs of the Tropicalismo movement, with lines in the asphalt or structures of adhesive tape in urban furniture. Also he recreates standards and prints of neo concrete substratum with ribbons and labels on paper, in a reflection of the fidelity to the material allied to the plastic transformation on the plan.