Flauberto Artista Plastico Brasileiro

www.flauberto.de

I am an autodidactic artist. My personal life and art flow paralel one to another. About my art I have to say that I don't belong to any art school, my painting is developed in a very personal base. I don't need and I don't have attraction to any academicism of the art history. I painting are very open and free. My inspiration comes from darkness. My ideas are materialized spontaneously, I can not plan my painting, that means I only need to have the art materials in my hands and than I start to paint what comes in my head at that moment. If I plan my work , I can not make it. I am a compulsive artist, obsessiv. In reality I make an art work, whenever I need to say something. Sometimes I think I take part of the time of the cavern man, spontaneous, primitive, as the ideas come as volcanoes and earthquake inside myself that have to be expelled and than to be materialized in any kind of art support. I do not have a daily timetable in my art, my art does not work that way. I am not worried if my work grows or if I am included in certain art systems. I do not care about art that are in , or is fashionable, or else if certain art galleries decide if this or that kind of art is fashion. I am also not worried whatever the art critics say about my works. This kind of decision from critics who decide art does not make part of my personal universe. Art, as I see, must be free. The artist ought to be free in any circunstance. For me it is important the quality of art, the material quality too, and that the art has a good message to the society, the message could be good or bad, but it is important that generations after mine could see and admire and also that part of my ideas in my art works.

For me the reciprocity and the distance between the public and private world is something questinable. For me the real art and the truly function from art is something unknown; my real vision of art is ART IS ATTITUDE. I am not different from the mostly artist, I elaborate my art production alone, then art is something very individual and unilateral. So I have the relation artist and art production. I have no notion of the effect or impact on public after my art production is finished. At my vernissages, through 15 years as artist, I have heard a lot about what the people feel: some don not understand, some think whatever they want, some understand in a frame of their knowloges. I enjoy and have fun watch the people: I like the public interaction, artist and art, it is like a party for me. I do not support the intelectual side of art. This interaction makes public take part of the creation process of the artist and I like this very much, it is grateful and natural. In reality anyone can be an artist, it depends of if one develops its art habilities or not. And the chance of taking part of a workshop is very good, then it makes art more domocratic. I am sure that a workshop open to public, like the one you are organizing in this project will open the minds of many visitors to the studios, and then they will also feel they are creative and art gives them a chance to open and develop their artistic hability and interact with the resident artists. The idea of actuallity is my everyday routine. I live the present and my paintings register exactly my life at present, but my artistic know-how and inspiration come from the darkness, I do not ask the present as artist. I know I have to say and do something that comes from inside myself . So is my art present at the actuality of the world and all its differences and problems. They come as a positive signal for me, the actuality does not bother my creative process. I can not have a daily routine as artist. This would be a torture for me, but I am not against. My mind works very fast and spontaneous and that happens in my art process too. My daily project begins with the ideas that come in my mind. This is my first priority, then I begin a timeless work of putting my ideas on the canvas on as an artists that changes everyday.

"Where does the sun come first?" - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Paraíba, Brasilien

Die Kulturabteilung der Brasilianischen Botschaft in Berlin hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die deutsche Öffentlichkeit an brasilianische Gegenwartskunst heranzuführen, die in ihrer großen Vielfalt die Ausdehnung und Weite des Landes widerspiegelt. Die Ausstellung "Where does the sun com first" präsentiert Werke von Fabiano Gonper, Flauberto, Mário Simões und Murilo Campelo. Diese vier jungen Künstler stammen aus Paraíba, einem im Nordosten Brasiliens gelegenen Bundesstaat - weit entfernt von den großen Kunstmetropolen Rio de Janeiro und São Paulo.

Die vier Künstler haben sich im Laufe der neunziger Jahre im zeitgenössischen Kunstbetrieb einen Namen gemacht. Sie waren in Brasilien bei wichtigen Ausstellungen und Workshops vertreten und pflegen einen regen Austausch mit Deutschland, Frankreich und der Schweiz.

Flauberto wurde 1967 in der kleinen Stadt Juazeirinho, Paraíba geboren. Der Künstler sieht sich ganz bewußt als ein aleatorisches Wesen, das von Geburt an stetig den unwiderstehlichen Drang in sich verspürt, eine neue Welt zu entdecken. Er bemüht sich, seinem Innersten spontan und unvermittelt künstlerischen Ausdruck zu verleihen und in einer rudimentären, an Höhlenmalerei gemahnenden Art Unruhe, Selbsterkenntnis, Alltagserfahrungen und Erlebnisse künstlerisch zu verarbeiten. Als überzeugter Materialist sieht er Luxus und Elend stofflich und geistig auf ein und der selben Ebene. In seinen Werken spiegelt sich wider, wie sehr ihn Sintfluten und Erdbeben in endlos wiederkehrenden Bildern existentiell bedrängen. Seine extrem ichbezogene Malerei ist spontan und ursprünglich und führt den Betrachter zurück zu den Anfängen der Kunst, zu rudimentären Ausdrucksweisen der urzeitlichen Menschheit. Seine großformatigen farbigen Gemälde stehen mit ihrer überbordenden Symbolik unzusammenhängend nebeneinander und drücken in ihrer Klarheit und gleichzeitigen Überspanntheit bewußt das Lebensgefühl des Künstlers aus. Flauberto ist vor fünf Jahren nach Berlin übergesiedelt. Unter dem Titel "Diamantes Surround" widmete ihm das Brasilianischen Kulturinstitut ICBRA, Berlin, 2001 eine Einzelausstellung. Er nahm an bedeutenden Gemeinschaftsausstellungen u.a. in João Pessoa und in Berlin (Museum am Check Point Charly, Galerie No Tre) teil.

Die Ausstellung "Where does the sun come first?" Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Paraíba, Brasilien zeigt Gemälde, Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Graphiken, Installationen und Objekte, mit denen der Betrachter in das künstlerische Schaffen der vier genannten Künstler eingeführt wird. Diese lassen sich in ihrer schöpferischen Arbeit von ihrer Umwelt inspirieren. So setzen sie beispielsweise ihre Erfahrungen in der Berliner U-Bahn, auf der Transamazônica, in einem Schweizer Café oder auf den Straßen von João Pessoa bildnerisch um und beziehen den Betrachter in die Fragen

ein, die sie an die Gegenwart stellen.

“Where Does The Sun Come First?”

 A mostra “Where Does The Sun Come First?” – Contemporary Art from Paraiba – Brasil apresenta a

produção recente desses quatro artistas que surgiram no panorama da arte contemporânea dos anos

90, estando presentes em importantes mostras nacionais, workshops e intercâmbios com Alemanha,

Suíça e França.

Flauberto (Juazeirinho PB Brasil 1967) conscientemente sente-se e percebe-se como um ser de índole

aleatória que sempre buscou compulsivamente um mundo, desde que nasceu até hoje. Tenta arrancar

expressões artísticas espontâneas e súbitas de dentro do seu corpo de forma rupestre e rudimentar

ilustrando o espaço da arte com inquietações, auto-conhecimento, experiências do cotidiano,

história de vida. Um materialista convicto, para ele luxo e miséria estão no mesmo plano,

material e espiritual. Uma existência atormentada por imagens grandiosas de dilúvios e terremotos

 projeta-se na sua obra como um filme que assiste todos os dias. Sua pintura extremamente

 personalizada, expontânea, bruta, nos remete ao princípio da arte quando os primeiros humanos

expressavam-se de maneira rudimentar. Suas grandes e multicoloridas pinturas são páginas avulsas

povoadas por uma simbologia que ilustra esse enredo lúcido e delirante vivido conscientemente pelo

 artista.

Há cinco anos, Flauberto radicou-se na Europa.  Em 2001 fez  mostra individual intitulada

“ Diamantes Surround ” ( ICBRA  - Instituto Cultural Brasileiro na Alemanha -  Berlim / Alemanha).

 Entre as mostras coletivas que participa, destaca-se em 1999 “1500 –Via Pedro II – Coletivo”

(Centro Cultural São Francisco – João Pessoa PB Brasil) ,  Museum Haus Am Checpoint Charlie)

25 - Berlim Alemanha, em 2000 -  Galeria NO TER- ( Kunst Zum Verschenken) 45 Kunstlerinnen  und

Kunstler  - Berlim Alemanha.. Vive e trabalha em Berlim.

A mostra “Where does the sun come first ?” – Contemporary Art from Paraiba  - Brasil apresenta a

 produção desses artistas, que entre pinturas, fotografias, desenhos, objetos, gravuras, e

instalações criam seus universos, e a partir deles, envolvem o público-expectador. E nessa relação

expõem suas idéias, conceitos, cores, de forma direta, ou com a subjetividade as vezes necessária,

 outras vezes no limite vida-arte. São artistas que, antes de tudo, fazem de seus percursos, o fio

 condutor de suas obras, seja em busca da fama, do sucesso, de si próprio, de uma saída para a

arte, de auto afirmação, em busca da forma ou da desforma. Enquanto Flauberto está no metrô, em

Berlim, Alemanha, observa cenas da metrópole, que mais tarde alimentarão seu pensamento.

Fábbio Q.