Lisette Lagnado
Lisette Lagnado is an art critic, curator and writer. She is the director of the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage in the city of Rio de Janeiro since 2014. With a PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (2003), she was coordinator, professor and researcher in the master's degree course in Visual Arts at Santa Marcelina College, where she deployed the Marcelina magazine. In 2010, she was the curator of Desvíos de la deriva (MNCARS, Madrid), developing her research work on the nature of a specific situationism to the history of South American countries. Prior to this exhibition, she curated the 27th São Paulo Biennale (Como Viver Junto, 2006), with a conceptual scope based on the Hélio Oiticica Environmental Program - until today the only project of a São Paulo Biennale chosen by an international jury. Lagnado has organized a large part of Hélio Oiticica's manuscripts in an online database, hosted on Itaú Cultural's website, offering investigative parameters for all who study the artist's work. Involved with the constitution of archives, besides Hélio Oiticica, she has dedicated long periods of study on Leonilson and Mira Schendel (with a master's degree defended in 1997 at PUC-SP). From 1993 to 1995, she founded and coordinated the Leonilson Project, which resulted in the retrospective and the book Leonilson - São Tantas as Verdades (Ed. DBA). She published Conversações com Iberê Camargo, a book that precedes the establishment of the Iberê Camargo Foundation (1995) and served as a script for curating the Special Hall in honor of the artist at the 2nd Mercosur Biennale (1999). She has also served on several Councils (MAM-SP and Deutsche Bank Urban Age Prize). Her first curatorship, "The presence of the ready-made" (MAC / USP), won the APCA's Best Exhibition of the Year Award (1993). She was the co-curator of the show Antarctica Artes com a Folha (1996), a work of prospecting and mapping of wide repercussion in Brazil and abroad. Ten years later, she would act in the Rumos Artes Visuais Program, with a similar goal. Born in Kinshasa (Zaïre), Lagnado has lived in São Paulo since 1975. In the 1980s, she was co-editor of the Arte em São Paulo magazine, founded by Luiz Paulo Baravelli. She also edited Galeria magazine (1988-1989) before working as an art reporter for Folha de São Paulo (1990-1991). Lagnado has articles in international magazines (Art Nexus, Lapiz, Third Text, Parachute, among others). Se wrote the preface to the Portuguese translation of Rosalind Krauss's "The Picasso Papers" (Iluminuras). Since 2001, she has co-edited Tropico, an electronic magazine that participated in the "Documenta 12 magazines" (Kassel) in 2006.
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