Conjunto da Obra

Artemicro (Artmicro)

Em Quatro Desentende-se Melhor (Four are Best Misunderstood)

Figura (Figure)

Hino dos Vencidos (Anthem of the Defeated)

Jaula da Anta (Tapir's Cage)

Nós (Us or Knots)

Operador (Operator)

PGU 666 and Artista Profissional

POESIA eVENTO

Rebusteia

Receita de Arte Brasileira

The Lady I long for

TRÄMA

Transparências (Transparencies)

Um Golpe de Dada (A Coup of Dada)

Vinte Pagina (Twenty Pages)

Trama capa, 1976

Impresso, 31.00 X 22.00

Works, Series and Collections: TRÄMA

Expositions: AI-5 50 ANOS (AI-5 50 YEARS), Tendências do Livro de Artista (Artist Book Trends)

My commnetary

In 1976, Mauricio Fridman and I published the album TRÄMA.

It was the first production of the Cooperativa Geral Para Assuntos da Arte (General Cooperative for Art Affairs) we were organizing. It is worth mentioning that both names, the cooperative and the album, are elaborations of Mauricio's, with special irony and grace.

It was a matter of publishing together, agreeing with format, cover, binding and quantity of participation, preserving the individual in its creation. It was just Mauricio and me.

Two hundred copies were made and distributed among collectors and institutions.

I participated with Tachas (Tacks), whose first photocopied version was mounted in the anteroom of the board of the Museu de Arte Contenporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo) while waiting to be attended by director Walter Zanini. I remember that on top of a file gabinet were sheets of paper, scattered tacks, and on the next table a hand-held puncher. I was playn with that and it came out the Tachas we see now, after better elaboration in the studio; D'ÁprésVan Gogh I don't remember well, but it seems that on the occasion or so, the Aguilar Banda Performatica (Performing Band) showed an action that had the name Van Gogh's Ear. Will I have remembered Van Gogh for this? Do not know; NÓS elaborated from the photos of an intimate and solitary performance in the studio, experiencing the sentiment of Salvador Antich Puig, student, activist, about my age, condemned to the “garrote” in 1974 in Franco’s Spain; Jaula da Anta (Tapir’s Cage) , a reduction for printing of a parody of architectural design, in blueprint, presented at the IX Brazilian Congress of Architects in 1976 (if I remember correctly); and Hino dos Vencidos (Anthem of the Defeated), formerly Anthem to the Defeated (alteration led by Sergio Ferro who complained with an “include yourself in it”). Hymn of the Defeated, subject of notes and studies, has several versions, including one with the title in French, and has been published in several booklets. In addition to TRÄMA, OnOf; Lei /seca (Prohibition) and single runs. Tapir Cage, Knots and Anthem of the Defeated have become well known and often requested. Incidentally, Tachas also, to another extent.

At the foot of this image, those of Mauricio Fridman's creation

Gabriel Borba, 2018