The relationship between criticism and artistic production in the formation of a contemporary art critical thinking in Brazil in the 70's

Abstract

In the seventies, artists and critics in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo set forth a unique collaboration in groups and partnerships that, as “action fronts”, propose strategic interventions in the local circuit of art. These interventions took place concurrently to diagnosis about impasses in the viability of the emerging artistic production, defined by the idea of “precariousness” of the circuit. In this process, there are decisive discussions about the status of the contemporary art and the public dimension of Brazilian art. Alongside the political-cultural debates carried out in the military dictatorship period, we identify in these actions theoretical and esthetic formulations that shape a thought about contemporary art in Brazil.