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Francisco Pellegrini, pianista da natureza

Francisco Pellegrini, pianist of nature

— April 19, 2023

While observing nature from up close in his daily life, Chico thinks about his compositions: “Making music is organizing sounds and creating a private universe, infinitely diverse. I understand that harmony and beauty are characteristics that are intrinsic to nature, and the music that I like to make is too: simultaneously complex and exuberant in its small details, but simple and beautiful for its harmony in its totality.” READ MORE

Lenora de Barros, artista camaleão

Lenora de Barros, chameleon artist

Luiza Pollo — April 05, 2023

Lenora de Barros's “ex-current self-portrait” could include: visual artist, poet, curator, columnist, photography editor, art director, performer, linguist. Beyond words and the theoretical universe of concrete poetry, her works expose provocative records through photography, video art and performance. Lenora is multiple. READ MORE

Trama das Deusas — costura e conto, por Gabriela Caruso

Thread of Goddesses — sewing and stories, by Gabriela Caruso

— March 08, 2023

This relationship between female roles, domestic work and care was what associated them to this capacity of creation of community ties. They are the ones who pass on knowledge, who build the threads that interlace the lives of people and the affection that sustains relationships. That is why female figures, in mythology, are assigned the skill and responsibility of weaving and creating, and thus sewing and interlacing the threads that, in their mixtures, become something more than the sum of different individuals, become life, become community. READ MORE

Carnaval, Clímax Corporal — Carlos Vergara e o Cacique de Ramos, por Luísa Pollo

Carnival, Corporeal Climax — Carlos Vergara and the Cacique de Ramos, by Luísa Pollo

— February 15, 2023

Vergara wore the skin of the Caciques and generated “complicity between the observer and the observed”. Incorporated to the crowd, Vergara is now part of the group. In a relationship of sensory commitment, the bloc party’s only demand was to have Will. The possibility of squeezing oneself in and feeling free. READ MORE

Um papo e uma dança com Retinto Fercar

A chat and a dance with Retinto Fercar

— January 27, 2023

Intrinsic ancestral knowledge and the dancing search for a free life guided by music, colors, movement and respect. READ MORE

O mar do A.MAR

The sea of A.MAR

— January 26, 2023

The project values the culture of isolated caiçara communities, who live without electricity, and rescues ancestral techniques of fish conservation. This content inaugurates our partnership with The Summer Hunter magazine. READ MORE

O Mapa dos Afetos, por Luiza Mello

The Map of Affection, by Luiza Mello

— December 05, 2022

The invitation to our runway show for the Santa Teresa collection in 2022’s SPFW was a map of affectionate places and people from the Santa Teresa district in Rio de Janeiro. Made by hand with nankeen, printed in silk and manually finished, the back features a text by Luiza Mello, our invited curator, who transports us to a stroll through the slopes and old houses of Santa Teresa. READ MORE

Notas sobre uma modernidade tropical nordestina, por Ayrson Heráclito

Notes on a Northeastern tropical modernity, by Ayrson Heráclito

— December 01, 2022

In the early 1920s, intellectuals and artists were eager for cultural renewal, elaborating distinct proposals to think about the polyvalent phenomenon of modernity in Brazil. Without a doubt, at first, the Northeastern region stood out as a protagonist, under the leadership of Gilberto Freyre, in Recife. READ MORE

Dia do Alfaiate

Tailor’s Day

— September 06, 2022
Our tribute to this millenary profession. READ MORE
Viva Gil

Hooray for Gil

— June 26, 2022

A brief, emotional retrospective regarding Gilberto Gil. READ MORE

Nara Leão

Nara Leão

— January 19, 2022

Nara, the muse that went far beyond Bossa Nova. A payment of respects and some film suggestions. READ MORE

Dia da MPB, por Fred Coelho

MPB Day, by Fred Coelho

— October 13, 2021

“When we talk about MPB, we must always remember what the acronym tells us: music that is popular and Brazilian, that is, which originates from a specific territory spanned by the diversity of its culture.” READ MORE