“Eu preciso destas palavras...”: alteridade e enunciação verbal na obra de Arthur Bispo do Rosário

Abstract

In this work we intended to develop an investigation about the issues linked to the incidence of the word within the framework of the plastic work of Arthur Bispo do Rosário. Having as parameter some aspects of his biographical data as well as his ethno-cultural origins, our interest lies especially in the attempt to understand the inherent potential towards the verbal enunciation with respect to the expressive power from the locus of alterity. For the development of the hypothesis made here we will use in a first instance, bibliographic aspects that marked the life and work of Bispo do Rosário, which, in our view, are significant regarding the establishment of the expressive space occupied by the artist within the Brazilian culture. Then, we will use an analytical corpus not only in relation to the discourse pronounced by Bispo about himself and his production, but also in the symbolic elements found in the collection of his work. These, in turn can be detected both in the hybrid language adopted by the artist in his textual constructions, and in the huge repertoire of objects built or expropriated by him, which compose a symbolic narrative extremely rich in signification.