Intervenção urbana e xilogravura: uma reflexão sobre o espaço urbano e sua ocupação

Abstract

The present master's thesis refers to a research in Visual Poetry / Art and Visuality. The research has as purpose the execution of poetic actions in the urban space that depart from the concept of the poster lambe-lick. The images used in the interventions are engraved and printed in woodcut, which refers to objects used as lighting utensils in the interiors of the houses, before the installation of the electric distribution network in society, such as lamps and lamps. Starting from individual experiences lived with the poetic practice are, perceptions about the process of insertion of the work in the urban space of different Brazilian cities. Some notes on the perceptible differences in the experiences, based on personal notes in the post-collage period, are reported, aiming at the reflection on the field of urban intervention. Woodcuts fixed to light poles occur on certain routes in different urban centers, being their largest concentration in the city of Santa Maria/RS. Making it possible to construct reflections between the internal and external dimensions (Arendt) of the construction as an artist, characterizing part of this reflective production in contemporary art. In the different cities, to know different urban centers, to observe the existing interventions that were there and to see how my work is exposed and dialogues with what is already inserted in the public space, was an exercise to reflect on how Is absorbed by the passer-by.