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Hermes Visual Arts is an independent artist-run space where art practice and discussion are connected within an environment that fosters experience exchanges.
— About
Hermes Visual Arts is an independent artist-run space where art practice and discussion are connected within an environment that fosters experience exchanges.
Objective:
Hermes Visual Arts is an independent artist-run space, created and managed by Carla Chaim since 2011. It is focused in reducing the gap between academic graduation and the art market. Through courses, Project Monitoring/Critique Groups, debates, exhibitions, collective proposals and art residencies. Its goal is to promote the artists’ critical maturity in a space where theoretical practices are linked to artistic production. Hermes is a place to share knowledge and experiences: enabling, encouraging and complementing the artists’ education. Moreover, the space is a platform to boost and intensify art in people’s life, amplifying their vision, making it more critical and sensible. Hermes stands as a resistance, in an effort to strengthen and enrich the artistic scene as a whole.
Hermes:
Currently, Hermes has three regular Project Monitoring/Critique Groups led by Carla Chaim, Marcelo Amorim and Nino Cais. The groups gather around 50 artists weekly. Is part of the groups’ agenda to constantly develop proposals, promote exhibitions and collective projects transforming the artists in a fundamental agent of the process: from creation to development and conclusion. Always respecting individuality and artistic freedom, Hermes runs with the idea of unity and collective force. Besides the regular groups, Hermes has also special events such as talks, courses and workshops, always focused on contemporary production. In addition, the space also offers an art residency for foreigners and out-of-state’s artists. The goal is to have creative people developing work based on their experience in São Paulo, promoting a regular exchange with other art spaces, from Brazil or abroad. Lastly, Hermes has four art studios being used by artists: Carla Chaim, Daniela Torrente e Débora Mazloum.
— Artistic residence
The art residency fosters the exchange between artists from different nationalities, backgrounds and creative fields.
Hermes started its art residency program in 2011, aiming to offer a space for production and engagement between artists from different creative fields. Artists, curators, writers and others may apply all year round. There is no deadline for enrollment and the dates are set on common agreements.
The program includes the accompanying of the artists’ research, engagement and presentation through Project Monitoring/Critique Group groups, led by Carla Chaim, Marcelo Amorim and Nino Cais. The art residency program may come to completion with a talk, studio tour and/or exhibition in Hermes’ events room.
Hermes is an independent organization which does not receive any assistance from other institutions or the government, being supported exclusively through fees and contributions from Hermes’ attendees. The art residency program is not profit oriented but rather focus in providing a welcoming space, encouraging the exchange of ideas and introduction to São Paulo’s contemporary art circuit. Therefore, artists accepted to the residency, are fully responsible for their expenses during the residency period, including: food, transportation, travelling, health insurance and art materials. Nevertheless, Hermes is pleased to provide an invitation letter or official acceptance letter for any applicants, in case of sponsorship, partnership or others.
Additionally, throughout the year, Hermes’ Team invite two artists for our art residency program. Instead of paying for accommodation, these artists are asked to donate an art work produced during their stay in Hermes.
ART RESIDENCY INCLUDES:
01. Art curator or critic to follow your project and deliver a critical essay;
02. Private room with work desk;
03. Shared workspaces and 24-hour facilities;
04. Weekly meetings with Project Monitoring/Critique Groups (optional);
05. Hermes’ studio residents available to assist with local facilities;
06. Promote the artist and his/her/they work on Hermes website and social media;
07. Bed and bath linen;
08. Heater and fan;
09. Fully equipped kitchen;
10. Walking distance: art galleries, art centers, museums, supermarkets, laundry, stores, restaurants and bars;
11. Wifi in all rooms;
12. Quiet space and pleasant garden in the midst of Vila Madalena, which is São Paulo’s most prominent art district;
13. Close to Faria Lima and Fradique Coutinho metro stations;
Residence
Accommodations feature a private room with towels, bedding, fan, heater and work desk; equipped kitchen; Wi-Fi connection and shared work spaces with 24-hour access.
— Activities
Critique Group
The artist mentoring/critique groups take place weekly and aim to foster artistic production and enhance critical maturation among participants.
Artists
Take a look at the work of our mentored artists.
Exhibitions
Since 2011 Hermes promotes individual and group exhibitions featuring works from all Hermes’ artists.
Courses
Hermes promotes classes, workshops, talks and other activities focused on contemporary art production.
— Studios
Brisa Noronha
By imposing rules, standards and precepts to her work, Brisa Noronha ends up focusing on the empirical exercise of doing them which finds its outcome in the ordering and organization of her efforts.
Carla Chaim
Carla Chaim works with different media types, challenging to go beyond boundaries of the traditional concept of drawing as a vestige of a body’s action on a given support.
Júlia Pontés
Júlia Pontés has a practice of documenting stories linked to her own life experiences and, still, a self-portrait practice. Mostly focused in photography, she also explores the use of different media and archival material.
Luisa Callegari
Artist, mother, feminist. Luisa Callegari’s is an exploration through subjects such as the body, gender constructions, clichés and contradictions of the feminine universe, sexuality and motherhood as reflections of her experiences.
Founded in 2011, Hermes Visual Arts is an independent space that promotes courses, debates, artistic residency and group exhibitions in order to boost the artists' critical maturity and create an environment for sharing experiences.
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