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O Ano da Mentira / The Fool's Year. Um calendário de / a calendar by matheus rocha pitta
São Paulo, Ikrek, 2018. This is a bilingual contemporary artist's calendar in Portuguese and English. 100 x 110 mm, 780 pp. Unpaginated. Only 1000 copies printed, sold out at the editor for years. The first page shows the title and author's name, all other pages feature an upper hole to hand the calendar on a wall or other support. Numerous black-and-white photos. This is the editor's presentation of the artist and his work: "Tiradentes, mg, 1980. Lives and works at Rio de Janeiro. Represented by the gallery Athena Contemporânea. Recent individual solo shows: Memória menor [mam Rio, 2018], The Fool’s Year [Athena Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, rj, sox, Berlin, 2017]. Participou da/ participated in 29º Bienal de São Paulo [2010], ii Frestras Trienal de Piracicaba [2017]. The artist has the newspaper [cutouts, photos, etc.] as an essential source in his production. From the collection of images of protests in different newspapers [the collection from the artist is long-standing and is constantly expanding], Matheus elaborates a calendar. But the artist extracts the phrases from the banners and flags and substitutes them for the inscription 1 April 2017."
Still under its original plastic wrappers. Unread and untouched.
