Wednesday, February 13, 2008

The World as a Stage



This is the title of the new exhibition at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. You can visit the exhibition until April 27. If you are nearby, check the installation from the Brazilian Renata Lucas, “Falha”, which reminds us of a temporary theater stage.

Renata Lucas is well known in Brazil, having participated in the 27th Bienal de São Paulo in 2006 and has exhibited also in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
She is now taking her first steps towards an international career. In the end of 2007, she participated in the exhibition “The World as a Stage”, at the Tate Modern, in London, with her installation called “The Visitor”. She introduced a diagonal section of trees and bushes into the planned gallery’s yard, transforming a controlled and harmonic environment into chaos. Renata Lucas said she “tried to reproduce the exact position of the plants in the forest so the apparent naturalness of the scene contrasted with the artificiality of the garden.”

If you’re thinking the exhibition was inspired by theater, you’re right. “The World as a Stage” was inspired by the play “As You Like It”, from Shakespeare, who wrote “all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” So, if you don't want to be a bad actor, give your best performance every day! And, as the artists say, break a leg!

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"Falha", from Renata Lucas - picture taken by John Kennard (http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/world-as-stage/)

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