Sul x North, solo show at MARP - Ribeirão Preto Museum of Art, Ribeirão Preto, June 2016.
Marianne North (1830/1890) was a British artist that travelled to dozens of countries documenting the local flora and landscapes. She lived in Brazil between 1872 and 1873, in where would later be called Rio de Janeiro state. Sul x North (2010/2015) series shows reproductions of North's paintings side by side tourist's photos appropriated from the internet, shot from the same places depicted by North.
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SUL X NORTH
Felipe Cama (São Paulo-SP)
Guest Artist
41st SARP Programming
Curator Nilton Campos
Felipe Cama was awarded in 2005 at the "30th SARP - Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto Nacional - Contemporâneo", with the acquisition of six works by the artist for the MARP collection.
The project "Sul x North" presents a set of works in which Felipe Cama appropriated the paintings of Marianne North, an English artist who lived and painted Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century.
The artist appropriated North's paintings of Rio and photos of these same landscapes posted by tourists on social media. The installation presented at the MARP references the installation that Marianne made herself in the gallery that she built for her works in London.
Text for the Sul x North exhibition at MARP - Ribeirão Preto Museum of Art, Ribeirão Preto, June 2016.