Ed Sartori, visual arts professor and artist, is a voracious watcher of Rio de Janeiro. Sartori has selected images highlighting the human hand interference, which most of times takes us to the past. People almost every time give the shots a historic dimension to the place where they are. And even his paisages with nobody and huge like shots from the Redeemer and a reveillon evening, we find from the traffic signs, from the eletric lighs and fireworks the presence of the human. But the beauty of the city is many times from its shape than from its architeture speculation. The artist focus, in this selection, is more than a building, it is the chosen angle than the suffered human being.

The carioca (from Rio) Martha Albuquerque, with a intense life experience out of Brasil, clicks calms moments in cosmopolitan cities of several continents, the human diversity merging to a common point . People of the four corners of the world, but that are from this one world, the human in its most obvious reality, waiting, walking, contemplating, dreaming, running, thinking. Would be that for sure? A woman right under Corcovado Montain would not be thinking that it would be unreachabel? Would be that girl in the train imagining that only her sees something? Or she believes that someone else, besides the photographer, would be able to see it as well? They are soul in beautiful sets full of architeture and paisage.

The multimidia Vicente Duque Estrada decided to go walking through the neighborhood where he lives to register the Old Rio architeture, the houses with a small town mood, however Santa Teresa is above the frenetic streets of Laranjeiras, Glória, Lapa, Centro and Catumbi. In the montainous neighborhood, always lived and live criative people, that leaves their mark, their scribbles, their urban interventions. The Train Earth attracts visitors from all parts, hungries for knowing this preserved region and Guanabara Bay and Tijuca Forest paisages, to be surprise with so much historic and artistic exuberance, the way Duque Estrada allows us to see from this small and beautiful photographic series.

Text by, Alfredo Herkenhoff - journalist, writer and cultural productor


From June 2nd to July 22nd 2012