Eduardo Srur:
A intervençào PETS ocupou rio, represa e praia no Brasil na última década. Entretanto, é na exposiçào realizada atualmente na Argentina que a obra ganha em conceito e processo de trabalho. A convite da Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporanea da America Latina (BienalSur), Srur propà´s um projeto de abrangência nacional com ações simultâneas e atividades sociais na cidade de Rosário e Buenos Aires.
As esculturas navegarào pelo Rio Paraná, Rio da Prata e Puerto Madero, aportando em algumas comunidades onde serào desenvolvidas atividades com escolas para gerir desenhos e mensagens de transformaçào que seguirào viagem dentro das esculturas infláveis. A etapa final será unificar a composiçào da obra na paisagem icà´nica do bairro turàstico de La Boca, em Buenos Aires, onde deságua o poluàdo rio Riachuelo-Matanza e consolida-se a maioria das ações do projeto.
PETS aponta para uma navegaçào poética e uma mensagem compartilhada com o público. Para Srur: ' ar o olhar e a forma como enxergamos a realidade e, principalmente, reciclar a funçào da arte na sociedade, propondo sua existência na vida das pessoas por meio de práticas e ações acessàveis'. O artista partilha dos conceitos da BienalSur, um evento mundial que atuará na eliminaçào das fronteiras. 'A arte deve ir além do horizonte estabelecido. Se você tem medo, vista o colete salva-vidas e siga em frente.', completa.
Translation:
The intervention of the PETS he has held a river, a reservoir, and the beach in Brazil in the last decade or so. In the meantime, at an exhibition currently held in Argentina, where the work gets into the concept and process of the work. At the invitation of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art from Latin America (BienalSur), Srur, proposed a project for the national level, with multiple concurrent strategies, and social activities in the city of Rosario and Buenos Aires, argentina.
The sculptures will browse through the Paraná River, the r he Puerto Madero district, bringing in some of the communities in which activities are being developed with the school to manage the designs, and message transformation, you will take a trip inside the sculpture, in air. This is the final step will be to unify the composition of the work is the landscape's most iconic in the tourist district of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, where it empties into the polluted river Riachuelo-Matanza and the settlement of the majority of shares in the project.
PETS also points to the navigation, the poetic and the message he shared with the audience. For Srur, 'it Is necessary to recycle ideas to recycle your eyes, and the way we see the reality and most of all, recycling is the function of art in society, proposing their life in the lives of the people, by the middle of the practices and actions to reach'. The artist's share of the basic concepts of BienalSur, a world-class event, which will act on the elimination of borders. 'Art should go beyond the horizon is well ested. If you are afraid, put on a life jacket, and then move on.', complete.
www.instituteforpublicart.org:
The artist Eduardo Srur makes the city and the urban public spaces as his own gallery. One morning in March 2008, the river Tietê dawned with an unusual scene: 20 giant colorful bottles with PET (plastic soda bottles) forma"decorating" the river flow.
The 20 huge bottles made of vinyl, inflated and fixed in floating platform remained for two months on the river concrete, and it was seen by over 60 million people. And also featured an educational project that took 3000 children and teachers from public schools to visit the river by boat and see the work, an unique opportunity to embark on the Tietê river.
The Tietê River has 1100 km of extension long and it bathes 62 municipal regions of Sào Paulo. It was because of the Tietê River that the city of Sào Paulo was born. In the following years, it has been widely used for navigation and even to practice water sports, mainly in the metropolitan region of Sào Paulo. It was from the 50's that this situation has changed. With disordered population and industrial growth of the city of Sào Paulo, the river began to receive domestic and industrial sewage in the stretch of the city, leaving it polluted and contaminated.
With this intervention the artist piqued the gaze of the peopt they pay attention to the pollution that always pervades the city. The artist work visually reactivated the river flow.
At the end of exposure, the plastic material of the inflatable bottle was reused for a purpose very consistent with the proposed work. Upon the Mr. Srur request, artist and Brazilian designer Jum Nakao designed and produced backpacks made with the pads of the work to be donated to the schools that made the ride. Therefore, it is concluded that message of the work goes beyond the environmental issue: it proposes recycling the look, bringing citizens to rethink their city. The PETS project beyond the exposed Tietê River, it was also on display at Guarapiranga and in the city of Bragança Paulista, Sào Paulo.
Source: Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
www.eduardosrur.com:
In the early 2000s Srur began his research and the use of public space to develop facilities with new materials and different visual languages, paving the way for the experimental production of urban intertions. His distinguished work "Camp of Angels" was exhibited on the facade of the largest abandoned hospital in South America, in Sào Paulo (2004). Srur received awards for his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná (2002) and Museum of Art of Santa Catarina (2002). He exhibited in the public space of Paris (2005) and occupied the architecture of secular buildings in the French city of Metz (2005). From 2005 to 2008 he participated in exhibitions in Switzerland, England, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Holland and Croatia. He was invited to the Havana Biennial in Cuba.
In Sào Paulo, he strengthened his entrepreneurial abilities and developed several large-scale urban interventions throughout the city's landscape, appropriating bridges and viaducts, polluted rivers and dams, public parks and vacant lots. Dozens of kayaks manned by plastic mannequins were placed on the polluted waters of the Pinheiros River (2006).
In 2008, Srur created sculptures in the form of giant PET plastic bottles along the edges of the Tiete River and interfered withfejackets on monuments. A replica of an imperial carriage was suspended 30 meters high on the Estaiada Bridge at Marginal Pinheiros (2012). In the same year he built a giant maze of solid waste in Ibirapuera Park. In 2013 "Lighthouse'occupied downtown, an installation with thousands of rats in the Anhangabaú Valley. In parallel, he developed happenings and political performances li"The Art Saves" in front of the National Congress (2011).
His works use the public space to draw attention to environmental and daily issues in the metropolis, aiming to expand the presence of art in society and bringing it closer to people's lives. Some actions promote social activities with children and the public through workshops that share the creative process of the artist outside the academic environment for thousands of people. In order to spread his ideas, Srur gives lectures at schools and important global events such as TED and Sustainable Brands. In 2014, he launched the book "Manual of Urban Intervention" and was elected the Sustainable Citizen by Catraca Livre for his set of work.
In 2017, at the invitation of the curator Adelina Von Furstenberg, he participated in the "Acqua" exhibition in the public space of Geneva (Switzerland) on the occasion of World Water Day. In Argentina, he brought his work PETS to the Paraná River, Rio de la Plata and Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, during the 1st Biennial of Contemporary Art in South America. In Sào Paulo, he occupied the contaminated Pinheiros River with the wor"Pintado", a monumental and itinerant intervention throughout the city.
An independent artist, Srur works in his studio in Sào Paulo where he created a personal collection throughout his career that includes series of paintings, sculptures, multiples, photographs, watercolors and prints.
He is the founder and owner of ATTACK Urban Interventions, a company specialized in the design and production of special projects in the public space supporting artistic interventions.
A intervençào PETS ocupou rio, represa e praia no Brasil na última década. Entretanto, é na exposiçào realizada atualmente na Argentina que a obra ganha em conceito e processo de trabalho. A convite da Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporanea da America Latina (BienalSur), Srur propà´s um projeto de abrangência nacional com ações simultâneas e atividades sociais na cidade de Rosário e Buenos Aires.
As esculturas navegarào pelo Rio Paraná, Rio da Prata e Puerto Madero, aportando em algumas comunidades onde serào desenvolvidas atividades com escolas para gerir desenhos e mensagens de transformaçào que seguirào viagem dentro das esculturas infláveis. A etapa final será unificar a composiçào da obra na paisagem icà´nica do bairro turàstico de La Boca, em Buenos Aires, onde deságua o poluàdo rio Riachuelo-Matanza e consolida-se a maioria das ações do projeto.
PETS aponta para uma navegaçào poética e uma mensagem compartilhada com o público. Para Srur: ' ar o olhar e a forma como enxergamos a realidade e, principalmente, reciclar a funçào da arte na sociedade, propondo sua existência na vida das pessoas por meio de práticas e ações acessàveis'. O artista partilha dos conceitos da BienalSur, um evento mundial que atuará na eliminaçào das fronteiras. 'A arte deve ir além do horizonte estabelecido. Se você tem medo, vista o colete salva-vidas e siga em frente.', completa.
Translation:
The intervention of the PETS he has held a river, a reservoir, and the beach in Brazil in the last decade or so. In the meantime, at an exhibition currently held in Argentina, where the work gets into the concept and process of the work. At the invitation of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art from Latin America (BienalSur), Srur, proposed a project for the national level, with multiple concurrent strategies, and social activities in the city of Rosario and Buenos Aires, argentina.
The sculptures will browse through the Paraná River, the r he Puerto Madero district, bringing in some of the communities in which activities are being developed with the school to manage the designs, and message transformation, you will take a trip inside the sculpture, in air. This is the final step will be to unify the composition of the work is the landscape's most iconic in the tourist district of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, where it empties into the polluted river Riachuelo-Matanza and the settlement of the majority of shares in the project.
PETS also points to the navigation, the poetic and the message he shared with the audience. For Srur, 'it Is necessary to recycle ideas to recycle your eyes, and the way we see the reality and most of all, recycling is the function of art in society, proposing their life in the lives of the people, by the middle of the practices and actions to reach'. The artist's share of the basic concepts of BienalSur, a world-class event, which will act on the elimination of borders. 'Art should go beyond the horizon is well ested. If you are afraid, put on a life jacket, and then move on.', complete.
www.instituteforpublicart.org:
The artist Eduardo Srur makes the city and the urban public spaces as his own gallery. One morning in March 2008, the river Tietê dawned with an unusual scene: 20 giant colorful bottles with PET (plastic soda bottles) forma"decorating" the river flow.
The 20 huge bottles made of vinyl, inflated and fixed in floating platform remained for two months on the river concrete, and it was seen by over 60 million people. And also featured an educational project that took 3000 children and teachers from public schools to visit the river by boat and see the work, an unique opportunity to embark on the Tietê river.
The Tietê River has 1100 km of extension long and it bathes 62 municipal regions of Sào Paulo. It was because of the Tietê River that the city of Sào Paulo was born. In the following years, it has been widely used for navigation and even to practice water sports, mainly in the metropolitan region of Sào Paulo. It was from the 50's that this situation has changed. With disordered population and industrial growth of the city of Sào Paulo, the river began to receive domestic and industrial sewage in the stretch of the city, leaving it polluted and contaminated.
With this intervention the artist piqued the gaze of the peopt they pay attention to the pollution that always pervades the city. The artist work visually reactivated the river flow.
At the end of exposure, the plastic material of the inflatable bottle was reused for a purpose very consistent with the proposed work. Upon the Mr. Srur request, artist and Brazilian designer Jum Nakao designed and produced backpacks made with the pads of the work to be donated to the schools that made the ride. Therefore, it is concluded that message of the work goes beyond the environmental issue: it proposes recycling the look, bringing citizens to rethink their city. The PETS project beyond the exposed Tietê River, it was also on display at Guarapiranga and in the city of Bragança Paulista, Sào Paulo.
Source: Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
www.eduardosrur.com:
In the early 2000s Srur began his research and the use of public space to develop facilities with new materials and different visual languages, paving the way for the experimental production of urban intertions. His distinguished work "Camp of Angels" was exhibited on the facade of the largest abandoned hospital in South America, in Sào Paulo (2004). Srur received awards for his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná (2002) and Museum of Art of Santa Catarina (2002). He exhibited in the public space of Paris (2005) and occupied the architecture of secular buildings in the French city of Metz (2005). From 2005 to 2008 he participated in exhibitions in Switzerland, England, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Holland and Croatia. He was invited to the Havana Biennial in Cuba.
In Sào Paulo, he strengthened his entrepreneurial abilities and developed several large-scale urban interventions throughout the city's landscape, appropriating bridges and viaducts, polluted rivers and dams, public parks and vacant lots. Dozens of kayaks manned by plastic mannequins were placed on the polluted waters of the Pinheiros River (2006).
In 2008, Srur created sculptures in the form of giant PET plastic bottles along the edges of the Tiete River and interfered withfejackets on monuments. A replica of an imperial carriage was suspended 30 meters high on the Estaiada Bridge at Marginal Pinheiros (2012). In the same year he built a giant maze of solid waste in Ibirapuera Park. In 2013 "Lighthouse'occupied downtown, an installation with thousands of rats in the Anhangabaú Valley. In parallel, he developed happenings and political performances li"The Art Saves" in front of the National Congress (2011).
His works use the public space to draw attention to environmental and daily issues in the metropolis, aiming to expand the presence of art in society and bringing it closer to people's lives. Some actions promote social activities with children and the public through workshops that share the creative process of the artist outside the academic environment for thousands of people. In order to spread his ideas, Srur gives lectures at schools and important global events such as TED and Sustainable Brands. In 2014, he launched the book "Manual of Urban Intervention" and was elected the Sustainable Citizen by Catraca Livre for his set of work.
In 2017, at the invitation of the curator Adelina Von Furstenberg, he participated in the "Acqua" exhibition in the public space of Geneva (Switzerland) on the occasion of World Water Day. In Argentina, he brought his work PETS to the Paraná River, Rio de la Plata and Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, during the 1st Biennial of Contemporary Art in South America. In Sào Paulo, he occupied the contaminated Pinheiros River with the wor"Pintado", a monumental and itinerant intervention throughout the city.
An independent artist, Srur works in his studio in Sào Paulo where he created a personal collection throughout his career that includes series of paintings, sculptures, multiples, photographs, watercolors and prints.
He is the founder and owner of ATTACK Urban Interventions, a company specialized in the design and production of special projects in the public space supporting artistic interventions.