"Opinião 65: Pop and Politics in Brazilian Art," a seminar with Professor Luiz Camillo Osorio, PUC-Rio

In August 1965, one year after a military coup d'etat shook the nation, the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Rio held the exhibition Opinião 65 [Opinion 1965], curated by Ceres Franco and Jean Boghici. In this seminar, Professor Osorio will discuss the reinstallation of this landmark exhibition in the MAM, Rio in 2015. Revisiting Opinião 65 revealed it to be a crucial event for thinking about art and politics, and the emergence of Brazilian contemporary art as we understand it today. Professor Osorio will also discuss his experience working between the museum and the university, and the potential that it offers for imagining a broader public engagement with the arts and humanities.

Luiz Camillo Osorio is Professor of Aesthetics in the Philosophy Department at the renowned Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PUC-RJ). From 2009 until 2015 was Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, and he was the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2015. He is the author of Flavio de Carvalho: uma poética em trânsito (Editora Cosac&Naify, SP, 2000) and Razões da Crítica (Editora Jorge Zahar, RJ, 2005), and editor of the collections Angelo Venosa (Editora Cosac&Naify, SP, 2008) and Abraham Palatnik (Editora Cosac&Naify, SP, 2004). His forthcoming volume, Olhar a Margem, will be published by Cosac&Naify in June 2016.

Please RSVP for lunch and to receive short, optional readings: marcelo.noah [at ] duke.edu