Ocupação Itaú Cultural

Itaú Cultural is presenting the fifth edition of Ocupação, which will be dedicated to the musician Chico Science. Ocupação has been created to foster a dialog between the new generation of artists and the places, works, objects and people that influenced them. The Project is part of the Institute’s permanent work, and includes—among other initiatives—activities to encourage contemporary production and preserve artistic memory.

The exhibition is an opportunity for the audience to plunge into the creative universe of Chico Science’s work, using his songs and writings as a starting-point. The exhibition is made up of his personal references, the city of Recife and the greater metropolitan area of Recife, his favorite places, his friends and heroes, his personal objects and photographs, in addition to documents belonging to his family and fellow-musicians.

Ocupação Chico Science is also a space in which the Institute will be gearing its educational efforts to broadening our understanding of the role of artists like Chico Science, who changed the artistic and cultural history of his birthplace and repositioned Brazilian music on the world stage.

When the project was staged in the past, it was dedicated to a presentation of the output of benchmark artists from the theater (Zé Celso), visual arts (Abraham Palatnik and Nelson Leirner), and from literature (Paulo Leminski).

To continue this activity, Ocupação Rogério Sganzerla will begin in June this year. The film-maker produced his first feature-length movie, the renowned O Bandido da Luz Vermelha, (‘The Red Light Bandit’) in 1968. This year, technology and visual arts will again be the focus, in individual exhibitions for benchmark artists in these languages.

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