MOLAA Zoom Project Ch 35 with Andrey Zignnatto (Brazil, b. 1981)
In each chapter, in conversation between the most remarkable artists from Latin-America and Latinxs in the US, and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga, we place the focus on a series or specific artwork which requires a close inspection and deliberate process of contemplation, and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists. Join us for Season Three of the MOLAA Project with these remarkable artists!
Self-taught artist, visual art's teacher and activist, Zignnatto indigenous from the comunities Dofurêm Guaianá and Guarani M’bya. Has worked as a bricklayer with his grandfather between 10 and14 years old. These affective and ancestral memories are the foundation for the conceptual development and the methods used in his artistic production. Connecting art and life, he invites the observer to reflect on the unstable and dynamic relation that the human being establishes with the surroundings. Promotes a synthesis of the struggle between tradition and contemporaneity and its effects on society and local cultures. Equalizing forces between the urban and indigenous universes, diasporas, colonization policies, reviewing the history of the arts and some of its movements are themes used in Zignnatto’s production.
Has showed artworks in solo and colectives shows in galleries and museuns in Brazil, USA, Colômbia, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Peru, Mexico and United Arab Emirates.
Since 2002 he makes artistic workshops to humanitarian projects in Brazil, Angola, Cuba, Siria and Lebanon to people who live in extreme vunerable social situation.
