{"id":923,"date":"2012-06-25T15:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/spiralen-och-kvadraten\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:09:06","slug":"spiralen-och-kvadraten-ovningar-i-oversattbarhet","status":"publish","type":"bonnier_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/bonnierskonsthall.se\/en\/utstallning\/spiralen-och-kvadraten-ovningar-i-oversattbarhet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiral and the Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Spiral and the Square<\/h2>\n\n\n

24 aug 2011 \u2192 8 jan 2012<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Participating Artists:<\/b> Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg, Eugenio Dittborn, \u00d6yvind Fahlstr\u00f6m, Cao Guim\u00e3raes, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Fredrik Ehlin & Andjeas Ejiksson & Oscar Mangione, Laura Lima, Arto Lindsay, Dora Longo Bahia, Renata Lucas, Raimundas Mala\u0161auskas & Marcos Lutyens, Cinthia Marcelle, Rodrigo Matheus, Cildo Meireles, Jo\u00e3o Mod\u00e9, Fabio Morais, Rivane Neuenschwander, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Haegue Yang.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In The Spiral and the Square<\/em>, the works are varied exercises in translatability. Rivane Neuenschwander\u2019s phantom draughtsman translates the visitor\u2019s description of their first love into a portrait on paper. Cildo Meireles\u2019 simple paper bags are translated into a series of volume units. Laura Lima\u2019s living sculpture lends an image to the process of translation as a physical and demanding struggle. Cao Guimar\u00e3es\u2019 full-length film Ex Isto<\/em> (Ex It) <\/em>challenges how history is written by transferring European historical events to the Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n

The Spiral and the Square<\/em> has its starting point in Brazilian writer Osman Lins\u2019 cult novel Avalovara<\/em> (1973), but an exhibition that encompasses the meeting of cultures inevitably and obviously will embrace the world, finding its way finally into Swedish art history.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The winding themes and structure\u00a0here echo the\u00a0novel’s structure, in which a mysterious palindrome appears in a square drawn on top of a spiral.<\/p>\n

The Spiral and the Square<\/em> features work by internationally established artists of different generations and with many different expressions. Running alongside the exhibition, Bonniers Konsthall, in collaboration with S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University and Albert Bonniers Publishers, is arranging seminars, performances and screenings in which Brazilian culture take centre stage<\/p>\n

The artists whose works are being shown do not divide into generations, their years of birth range from the 1930s to the mid-1970s. Nor is geography a common denominator. There are Brazilian artists, artists working in Brazil, and artists from totally different parts of the world. If we are to name any points of contact, we instead end up with an interest in translation \u2013 between languages, traditions and art forms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sara Arrhenius, director Bonniers Konsthall<\/span><\/p>\n

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Laura Lima, Marra<\/em>, 1996\/2011. Photo: Olle Kirchmeier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Top image: Rodrigo Matheus, Nature of Construction<\/em>, 2011. Photo: Olle Kirchmeier<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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