Thursday 12 October 2006

RIO DE JANEIRO AND SAO PAULO PANORAMA


café at Rio de Janeiro Airport


building in Rio de Janeiro centre


balaustrade at Dominique Gonzalez Foerster “Sitio Experimental Tropical” in Santa Teresa in Rio


Roberto Burle Marx’s grass design outside the Museum of Modern Art Rio


waiting room in Parking lot in Rio


tiles at the Bar do Minheiro in Santa Teresa in Rio


lamps at the Bar do Minheiro in Santa Teresa in Rio


Vidente do Amor (Love Fortune Teller) in the streets of Sao Paulo


Maestro Lawrence Weiner having a caipirinha in Sao Paulo


avaf meets Abravaneista movement at Galeria Triangulo in Sao Paulo


ceiling at Karaoke in Liberdade, japanese neighbourhood in Sao Paulo


Dominique Gonzalez Foerster’s family of columns at the Ibapueira Park during the Sao Paulo Bienial


Freeway in Sao Paulo closed on Sundays so people can have a stroll in the centre

Monday 9 October 2006

MARCELO KRASILCIC'S NIGHT OF A 1000 MARCELOS!







Marcelo was a popular name during the 60s and 70s in Brazil. Some say that is because of Mastroiani's success with 'La Dolce Vita'. For the 'Night of a 1000 Marcelos', Marcelo Krasilcic invited as many Marcelos and Marcelo's friends to Royal in Sao Paulo. F. Kawallys created caps, and together with Rick Castro/Abravanation made beautiful acrilic Marcelo pieces, meanwhile Camila Levi and Juliano Lopes djd.
http://www.marcelok.com/

Sunday 8 October 2006

GUIA DO COPAN OUT NOW




Press release
Guia do Copan / Copacopan Day,

pablo international magazine and exo experimental org. invite you to the Copacopan Day, a series of events celebrating the launch of the publication Guia do Copan, a special edition for São Paulo S.A.

Friday 06th October, 2006
Copan Building
Av. Ipiranga, 200 República
São Paulo SP Brazil
info@exo.org.br
11 9492 2445

Events of the day
9:30am coffee at Café Floresta**
10:00am Copan building special tour with Sr. Affonso Celso Prazeres (manager)*
12:00pm Tai Chi lesson at the Copan’s Mezannine
18:00pm Sunset on the rooftop of Copan building*
19:00pm Pizza and launch of the Guia do Copan at Pizzaria Copan**

* please confirm assistance via e-mail or phone, limited number of places available
** tours and events in the building are free, participants are only responsible for their own expenses at café and pizza place

Guia do Copan is an investigation by Pablo Léon de la Barra of the Copan Building and its historical documents. The Copan was designed in 1951 by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer as a commission for the Pan-America Hotel and Tourism Company, a joint venture between Brazilian investors and the US-based Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, a subsidiary of Pan-American World Airways. Located in downtown São Paulo, at the intersection of Avenida Ipiranga and Avenida São Luis, the Copan was officially inaugurated in 1966. The 1950s and 1960s comprised an industrial and economic boom in São Paulo, which resonated with a larger ideology of development and progress in the country marked by the construction of Brasília – the new capital of “the country of the future”. Copan was idealized as the “Rockefeller Center of São Paulo”, an urban complex integrating an hotel with apartments, offices and shops. During its construction the project went through several changes and its final configuration is a 32 story building consisting of 1.160 residential apartments (ranging in size between 29m2 - 240m2) divided into 6 blocks, with shops, a cinema on the ground level, a bank and a parking lot. Copan has become one of the most important symbols of the city, “synonymous with the metropolitan scale of São Paulo’s modernity”, signaling a radical change in the modes of living and in the configuration of the landscape. With a diverse population currently estimated at 5.000, Copan is inscribed with the many levels of social and cultural co-habitation in São Paulo. Investigating Copan is an attempt to critically engage with the city’s complex urban and societal issues. exo experimental org. has located its office and artist-in-residency program in the Copan since 2003. Pablo Leon de la Barra took part in the São Paulo S.A. international residency research program.

São Paulo S.A. aesthetic, social and political practices in debate is a medium/long term cultural project initiated in November 2002 that articulates investigations related to the Brazilian social and political context. The project focuses on the debate concerning contemporary aesthetic practices at the crossroad of diverse disciplines and urban experiences. It considers the metropolis of São Paulo and its complexities as the epicenter of reflections, involving theoreticians, artists, as well as social and political agents. São Paulo S.A. is directed by Catherine David and realized by exo in association with various Brazilian and international cultural institutions, comprising seminars, an international residency research program, workshops, work presentations, an archive and a series of folders and publications.

exo experimental org. is a non-profit cultural organization held in São Paulo since 2002 - co-founded and coordinated by Ligia Nobre and Cécile Zoonens. Copan is the site where exo has its office and artist-in-residency program since early 2003.
www.exo.org.br

Pablo León de la Barra's practice provides a social and aesthetic platform for the examination of different and contradictory tensions which give form to the contemporary experience. He has curated exhibitions such as To Be Political it Has to Look Nice, 2003 at Apexart in New York and Glory Hole, 2006 at the Architecture Foundation, London; and participated amongst other exhibitions at Localismos, 2004 Mexico City; Tropical Abstraction, 2005, Stedelijk Museum; BMW- 9th Baltic Triennial, 2005, CAC-Lithuania and ICA-London; Globos Sonda/Trial Balloons, 2006, MUSAC, Spain; Nothing Really Matters When You Wear A Big Moustache, 2006, Locus, Athens. He lives in London, he was born in Mexico City in 1972.

Saturday 7 October 2006

'COPACOPAN DAY' A PROJECT BY PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA, INCLUDING THE LAUNCH OF GUIA DO COPAN, GUIDED TOUR THROUGH COPAN BUILDING AND SUNSET AT THE ROOFTOP


plan of Copan


Welcoming Desk



Angelica at Welcoming Desk!


Welcoming desk committee at Copan's Pavimento Terreo


curator Ligia Nobre and Sr. Affonso guiding the tour, Copan photomural in the background



Tour through the building


at rooftop of Copan


Sao Paulo at Sunset as viewed from the rooftop of Copan




visitors at Copan's rooftop


Cay Sophie Rabinowitz and Christian Rattemeyer


Sao Paulo by night as viewed from above


Sao Paulo quartet playing at rooftop!


Pizzas at Pizzaria Copan afterwards!

Press release
Guia do Copan / Copacopan Day,

pablo international magazine and exo experimental org. invite you to the Copacopan Day, a series of events celebrating the launch of the publication Guia do Copan, a special edition for São Paulo S.A.

Friday 06th October, 2006
Copan Building
Av. Ipiranga, 200 República
São Paulo SP Brazil
info@exo.org.br
11 9492 2445

Events of the day
9:30am coffee at Café Floresta**
10:00am Copan building special tour with Sr. Affonso Celso Prazeres (manager)*
12:00pm Tai Chi lesson at the Copan’s Mezannine
18:00pm Sunset on the rooftop of Copan building*
19:00pm Pizza and launch of the Guia do Copan at Pizzaria Copan**

* please confirm assistance via e-mail or phone, limited number of places available
** tours and events in the building are free, participants are only responsible for their own expenses at café and pizza place

Guia do Copan is an investigation by Pablo Léon de la Barra of the Copan Building and its historical documents. The Copan was designed in 1951 by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer as a commission for the Pan-America Hotel and Tourism Company, a joint venture between Brazilian investors and the US-based Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, a subsidiary of Pan-American World Airways. Located in downtown São Paulo, at the intersection of Avenida Ipiranga and Avenida São Luis, the Copan was officially inaugurated in 1966. The 1950s and 1960s comprised an industrial and economic boom in São Paulo, which resonated with a larger ideology of development and progress in the country marked by the construction of Brasília – the new capital of “the country of the future”. Copan was idealized as the “Rockefeller Center of São Paulo”, an urban complex integrating an hotel with apartments, offices and shops. During its construction the project went through several changes and its final configuration is a 32 story building consisting of 1.160 residential apartments (ranging in size between 29m2 - 240m2) divided into 6 blocks, with shops, a cinema on the ground level, a bank and a parking lot. Copan has become one of the most important symbols of the city, “synonymous with the metropolitan scale of São Paulo’s modernity”, signaling a radical change in the modes of living and in the configuration of the landscape. With a diverse population currently estimated at 5.000, Copan is inscribed with the many levels of social and cultural co-habitation in São Paulo. Investigating Copan is an attempt to critically engage with the city’s complex urban and societal issues. exo experimental org. has located its office and artist-in-residency program in the Copan since 2003. Pablo Leon de la Barra took part in the São Paulo S.A. internacional residency research program.

São Paulo S.A. aesthetic, social and political practices in debate is a medium/long term cultural project initiated in November 2002 that articulates investigations related to the Brazilian social and political context. The project focuses on the debate concerning contemporary aesthetic practices at the crossroad of diverse disciplines and urban experiences. It considers the metropolis of São Paulo and its complexities as the epicenter of reflections, involving theoreticians, artists, as well as social and political agents. São Paulo S.A. is directed by Catherine David and realized by exo in association with various Brazilian and international cultural institutions, comprising seminars, an international residency research program, workshops, work presentations, an archive and a series of folders and publications.

exo experimental org. is a non-profit cultural organization held in São Paulo since 2002 - co-founded and coordinated by Ligia Nobre and Cécile Zoonens. Copan is the site where exo has its office and artist-in-residency program since early 2003.
www.exo.org.br

Pablo León de la Barra's practice provides a social and aesthetic platform for the examination of different and contradictory tensions which give form to the contemporary experience. He is editor of Pablo Internacional Magazine, co-director of Blow de la Barra gallery and curator of White Cubicle Toilet Gallery. He has curated exhibitions such as To Be Political it Has to Look Nice, 2003 at Apexart in New York and Glory Hole, 2006 at the Architecture Foundation, London; and participated amongst other exhibitons at Localismos, 2004 Mexico City; Tropical Abstraction, 2005, Stedelijk Museum; BMW- 9th Baltic Triennial, 2005, CAC-Lithuania and ICA-London; Globos Sonda/Trial Balloons, 2006, MUSAC, Spain; Nothing Really Matters When You Wear A Big Moustache, 2006, Locus, Athens. He lives in London, he was born in Mexico City in 1972.

Friday 6 October 2006

'GUIA DO COPAN / COPACOPAN DAY' A PROJECT BY PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA AT OSCAR NIEMEYER'S EDIFICIO COPAN



Press release
Guia do Copan / Copacopan Day,

pablo international magazine and exo experimental org. invite you to the Copacopan Day, a series of events celebrating the launch of the publication Guia do Copan, a special edition for São Paulo S.A.

Friday 06th October, 2006
Copan Building
Av. Ipiranga, 200 República
São Paulo SP Brazil
info@exo.org.br
11 9492 2445

Events of the day
9:30am coffee at Café Floresta**
10:00am Copan building special tour with Sr. Affonso Celso Prazeres (manager)*
12:00pm Tai Chi lesson at the Copan’s Mezannine
18:00pm Sunset on the rooftop of Copan building*
19:00pm Pizza and launch of the Guia do Copan at Pizzaria Copan**

* please confirm assistance via e-mail or phone, limited number of places available
** tours and events in the building are free, participants are only responsible for their own expenses at café and pizza place

Guia do Copan is an investigation by Pablo Léon de la Barra of the Copan Building and its historical documents. The Copan was designed in 1951 by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer as a commission for the Pan-America Hotel and Tourism Company, a joint venture between Brazilian investors and the US-based Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, a subsidiary of Pan-American World Airways. Located in downtown São Paulo, at the intersection of Avenida Ipiranga and Avenida São Luis, the Copan was officially inaugurated in 1966. The 1950s and 1960s comprised an industrial and economic boom in São Paulo, which resonated with a larger ideology of development and progress in the country marked by the construction of Brasília – the new capital of “the country of the future”. Copan was idealized as the “Rockefeller Center of São Paulo”, an urban complex integrating an hotel with apartments, offices and shops. During its construction the project went through several changes and its final configuration is a 32 story building consisting of 1.160 residential apartments (ranging in size between 29m2 - 240m2) divided into 6 blocks, with shops, a cinema on the ground level, a bank and a parking lot. Copan has become one of the most important symbols of the city, “synonymous with the metropolitan scale of São Paulo’s modernity”, signaling a radical change in the modes of living and in the configuration of the landscape. With a diverse population currently estimated at 5.000, Copan is inscribed with the many levels of social and cultural co-habitation in São Paulo. Investigating Copan is an attempt to critically engage with the city’s complex urban and societal issues. exo experimental org. has located its office and artist-in-residency program in the Copan since 2003. Pablo Leon de la Barra took part in the São Paulo S.A. internacional residency research program.

São Paulo S.A. aesthetic, social and political practices in debate is a medium/long term cultural project initiated in November 2002 that articulates investigations related to the Brazilian social and political context. The project focuses on the debate concerning contemporary aesthetic practices at the crossroad of diverse disciplines and urban experiences. It considers the metropolis of São Paulo and its complexities as the epicenter of reflections, involving theoreticians, artists, as well as social and political agents. São Paulo S.A. is directed by Catherine David and realized by exo in association with various Brazilian and international cultural institutions, comprising seminars, an international residency research program, workshops, work presentations, an archive and a series of folders and publications.

exo experimental org. is a non-profit cultural organization held in São Paulo since 2002 - co-founded and coordinated by Ligia Nobre and Cécile Zoonens. Copan is the site where exo has its office and artist-in-residency program since early 2003.
www.exo.org.br

Pablo León de la Barra's practice provides a social and aesthetic platform for the examination of different and contradictory tensions which give form to the contemporary experience. He is editor of Pablo Internacional Magazine, co-director of Blow de la Barra gallery and curator of White Cubicle Toilet Gallery. He has curated exhibitions such as To Be Political it Has to Look Nice, 2003 at Apexart in New York and Glory Hole, 2006 at the Architecture Foundation, London; and participated amongst other exhibitons at Localismos, 2004 Mexico City; Tropical Abstraction, 2005, Stedelijk Museum; BMW- 9th Baltic Triennial, 2005, CAC-Lithuania and ICA-London; Globos Sonda/Trial Balloons, 2006, MUSAC, Spain; Nothing Really Matters When You Wear A Big Moustache, 2006, Locus, Athens. He lives in London, he was born in Mexico City in 1972.