Breakfast with Marcelo Guimarães Lima / Frühstück mit Marcelo Guimarães Lima
Marcelo Guimarães Lima is a painter, printmaker and writer. He has taught drawing, painting, printmaking, the history and the theory of art in Brazil, in the United States, in Spain and in Dubai (UAE). He has illustrated books, worked with animators, painted murals, directed community-based art projects in the US, in Brazil and in Spain. His work has been exhibited in the US, Europe, UAE and Brazil. We are looking forward to the interview with Marcelo and welcome him to “Breakfast with …”Auf Deutsch weiter lesen
What are you having for breakfast?Coffee, bread and butter. Frugal. For me, the essential part of the breakfast in the morning is the coffee to start the day.
What is your favorite breakfast place in your city?At home
What do people like most about your city and what do you like most about your city?There is a certain energy in the city, the crazy pace can be invigorating at times, at other times is just…crazy. São Paulo is a city with a very interesting intellectual life, this is one of the things that I like about it.

Marcelo Guimarães Lima “Turbillon (Homage to Leonardo)” digigrafia, 2011
What are you currently working on?As usual, I am researching and writing on several art and art historical themes at the same time. I am interested in the impact of new technologies on the visual arts today. On what it does to our very concept of art. And, of course, our concept of art is essentially related to our concept of who we are. We live in a time of cultural mutations, and that poses interesting challenges to artists. I am also planning my next series of art works. Writing and planning, sketching, looking for visual ideas, they all go somehow together, even when words and images seem to follow different routes.
What inspires you and what do you when an idea comes to you?To make a point, to mark a position, to have a perspective on the world we live in, that is, to reflect and develop a point of view with the tools of our trade. Inspiration happens when art intersects with the world at large, with life. When that happens, I keep going to see where the work will take me.
What is the one project you are most proud of?
The last one I did, and the next one I will do with what I learned from the one I just finished….it is an ongoing process and experience…always.
The Imagination of Disaster is a series of digital drawings I did in 2011 that I like to mention here. Also, I published in 2012 a book of essays on art: Heterochronia and Vanishing Viewpoints . It was published by Metasenta Publications in Melbourne (Australia). You can read the presentation at my blog Panoptikon. The title indicates that we live a heterogeneous time experience in our globalized world today, and that our understanding of it can only be provisory at this point.
The last one I did, and the next one I will do with what I learned from the one I just finished….it is an ongoing process and experience…always.The Imagination of Disaster is a series of digital drawings I did in 2011 that I like to mention here. Also, I published in 2012 a book of essays on art: Heterochronia and Vanishing Viewpoints . It was published by Metasenta Publications in Melbourne (Australia). You can read the presentation at my blog Panoptikon. The title indicates that we live a heterogeneous time experience in our globalized world today, and that our understanding of it can only be provisory at this point.
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