Curatorship and artist’s book: ways to reading Valêncio Xavier

Abstract

The ready-made, for Marcel Duchamp, refers to an usual objet promoted to art object by the artist’s deliberate choice. The concept, worked by the artist in texto of 1961, waits, more that to describe an object, to suggest to the spectator a cerebral experience before the artistic workmanship. In “Minha mãe morrendo e o menino mentido” (2001) several signs of diferente fields (such as literature, visual arts, publicity and journalism) circulate and they are articulare starting from an assembly beginning, what favors the reading of the works as an artist book, being the own author, the curator of the work. The ready-made idea in consonance with the denial in the pure ways for the modernity, the limits among the languages converge in the analysis of Valêncio Xavier’book (1933-2008). In this article we analyzed the approaches and the estrangements between image and text in the referred work. For so much, Dias’ works (2014), Gandier (2013), Garramuño (2014) and Silveira (2008) they help to think the work analyzed starting from the curatorship concepts anda artist’s book, format in that several artistic fields, for besides the literary, thet re mobilized in the contemporary literary production.