The filmmaker and visual artist Cao Guimarães will teach, from October 3 to 7, the workshop “Seeing is a fable” at the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center. The classes are aimed at visual artists, video artists, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, curators, and students from any artistic field.
The workshop proposes to promote video art production in São Luís, approaching artistic creation as a game between the gaze and the relationship between the body and what is observed in everyday life. Different ways of seeing, observing and contemplating will be studied; the microdramas of form; the exploration of the five senses and synesthesia; the development of intuition; collaborative construction; and the relationship between control and lack of control in artistic doing.
Classes will take place in the afternoon, from 14:00 to 18:00. There are 30 places available and registrations can be made through the link on the side. The Vale Maranhão Cultural Center is located at Rua Direita, 149, in the Historic Center of São Luís.
About Cao Guimarães
Cao Guimarães is a filmmaker and plastic artist, the artist has his works in prestigious collections such as the Tate Modern (United Kingdom), the MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Fondation Cartier (France), Inhotim (Brazil), among others.
He participated in important exhibitions such as XXV and XXVII International Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; Insite Biennial 2005, Mexico; Cruzações: Contemporary Art in Brazil, USA; Tropicália: The 60s in Brazil, Austria; and Ver é Uma Fábula, Brazil, a retrospective with a large part of his works exhibited at Itaú Cultural, in São Paulo.
He made ten feature films: Espera (2018), The Man of the Crowds (2013), Otto (2012), Elvira Lorelay Alma de Dragón (2012), Ex Isto (2010), Wanderilho (2007), Accident (2006), Alma do Osso (2004), Rua de Mão Dupla (2002) and The End of the Endless (2001), which participated in international festivals such as Cannes, Locarno, Sundance, Venice, Berlin and Rotterdam.