SAO PAULO.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins presents, from 4 July 2015, O que parece mentira é poesia (What seems false is poetry), a solo exhibition by the artist Daniel Santiago, curated by Cristiana Tejo. Renowned for his Postal Art work and as part of the duo Equipe Bruscky & Santiago, Daniel Santiago has built up an oeuvre which is far from restricted to the aesthetic contestations of the 1970s.
The set of works exhibited here portray the artist’s studies into questions of poetry/ Poiesis and of the artifice, one of the most striking branches of his artwork. Through the (fictional) incarnation of Augusto dos Anjos, a character embodied by the artist, and the artistic psychographs where he speaks with the writer Fernando Pessoa, Santiago transfers his discourse to the other. His discourse is made concrete through writing.
On the other hand, poetry also occupies a public and participative character, whereby the artist interacts with newspaper readers, publishing a message in the classified ads page and thus inserting poetry into the context of information which is a part of people's everyday lives.
Respecting Daniel Santiago’'s uniqueness, the exhibition has been curated to produce a light and fluid walk through issues, processes and positions that take into account the artist’s attempt to maintain a living and free-moving spirit in his work.
Daniel Santiago
From Garanhuns, in Pernambuco state, Daniel Santiago graduated in art from
Pernambuco Federal University. He began his career in the late 1960s. His work
has played a strong role in political questioning of the custom of local art, using the
city, the body and other ephemeral materials as language. His experiments seek
dialogs with the public, through ironic, critical and political approaches to produce
works that communicate with their social and cultural context. He and Paulo
Bruscky created Equipe Bruscky & Santiago, and the duo worked together for
roughly 25 years, producing works in various media, such as performances, videos,
postal art and drawings. His postal art work features the series FOME (Hunger),
which reflects a period of serious political difficulties in Brazil. Daniel has lectured
at the Pernambuco Catholic University, Pernambuco Federal University and Rio
Grande do Norte Federal University.
