Uncool Artist

About

Here at Artfare, Uncool Artist presents a bi-monthly new selection of works made by our ILAPers (artists participants of our top art-creative-program in Brazil and the US). We are an independent community-based art school where new contemporary art people (artists, curators, critics, collectors etc.) find a place and a community to call their own. We aim to produce critical and creative knowledge that seeks to empower subjectivities, create new communities, and transform social structures to be more inclusive, embracing human diversity. Uncool Artist is a result of 20 years of experience in distance education in Brazil that has been applied to contemporary art teaching since 2010. Uncool Artist offers customized remote and in-person learning experiences with the most up-to-date technologies and methodologies to create a prolific environment for its participants. For this first collective show, a volunteer curatorial team was composed of the ILAPers interested in developing this curatorship ability. This group realized an internal open call between the program participants. As a result of this selection, we present five artists: Izzadora Araujo, Dani Cukierman, Juliano Mazzuchini, Rodrigo Pimenta and Thais Ribeiro. Through the curatorial exercises, the particularities of each artist's poetics strengthened the connections perceived between the works. Therefore, the curator team focused on the contexture of the relationship between emptiness, allowing the continuous transformation of the singularities that make this collective alive. Paraphrasing Sol Lewitt to Eva Hesse, “Don’t worry about the cool. Be Uncool and do!”