Installation View

Cipis Transworld, 1992
Silkscreen on fabric

 

Cipis Transworld, 1992
Video Ad.

Camisa Vermelha Sabão Cipis, 1994
Silkscreen on fabric

Camisa Azul Sabão Cipis, 1994
Silkscreen on fabric

Installation View

Cipis Transworld, 1992

Sabão Cipis, 1994
Soap

Cipis Transworld, 1992

Cipis Transworld, 1992

 
 
 

 

 

MARCELO CIPIS
A MARAVILHOSA CIPIS TRANSWORLD

1 June – 1 July 2017
At Spike, Berlin

Curated by Tenzing Barshee

In the early 1990s, the artist Marcelo Cipis conceived of “Cipis Transworld”, an artwork made in the wake of the Brazilian military dictatorship and in the spirit of the established models of the “artist-as-producer” and the “artist-as-enterprise”. The project was first shown as an installation at the 1991 São Paulo Biennale, but over the years, it came to include sculptures, paintings and videos. Some of them sarcastically play with authoritarian imagery, but mainly the project embodies the utopian idea of a benevolent company that makes goods for the well-being of humanity.

For his exhibition “A maravilhosa Cipis Transworld”, the artist revisits “Cipis Transworld” and finds that, rather than seeming dated, its hopeful and melancholic view of Brazil and the world seems desperately appropriate today.

 

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