Pierre Restany: para além do real. Um estudo sobre o Novo Realismo e sua conexão com a X Bienal de São Paulo (1969)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze and discuss the participation of Pierre Restany in the Brazilian cultural field throughout the 1960s and 1970s, looking for to investigate his work in the Bienal de São Paulo. In order to understand the conditions of its works, an analysis of its theoretical-historical bases of the New Realism movement is carried out, as well as its diffusion in countries outside the Paris-New York axis, especially Brazil. There is a convergence between the critical investigation is established in national and international scope of exhibitions that encompass its theory. This research presents the different modes of analysis that permeated the 1960s, among them are: (i) resistance to the incorporation of the new media of visual practice - like technology - the exhibition environments, as well as its convergence to New Realism; (ii) the problematic surrounding the X Bienal de São Paulo and the participation of Pierre Restany in the organization and reformulations of this exhibition, and (iii) in particular the project of the "Sala Especial de Arte e Tecnologia" proposed by him.