Atelie Aberto #3, Casa Tomada, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010
The Ateliê Aberto is a residency program that promotes the meeting between artists and researchers (critics, art historians and curators) from any area of the arts. For 3 months, 6 selected artists and 2 researchers, share studio space whilst working in the creation and production of an art piece – individual or collective – to be exhibitied at Casa Tomada.The artists are free to create and produce work within or outside their area of expertise; while the researchers apply their critical and theoretical skills to follow-up the works developed by the participant artists and develop a project focusing on the theory and thinking in art. Over the weeks, the participant artists receive sporadic visits of artists from different areas, or professionals working in art establishments – as curators, gallery owners and teachers – bringing new perspectives on what is being produced. As a final result, researchers produce texts, small curatorial projects or other experiments that fit in the periodical publication of Casa Tomada: Convivências, that is released along with the final exhibition of the artworks.
The residency focus is more on the artistic process than on the final result. The production of art works is stimulated by the experience of the house, its surroundings and the shared creative processes between the participants.
By the end of the Ateliê, each participant will also have developed an artist book that is incorporated into the Casa’s collection. One way to monitor these months of work is visiting the blog of the artists on the site of Casa Tomada.
