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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. This book is in dual language English and Portuguese. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> My first contact with the work of Paulo Nazareth was in mid 2008 when I was a member of a group of critics at the Centro Cultural de S?o Paulo. Once a year we would receive portfolios that had been chosen by the panel of the traditional Exhibition Program. These had to be carefully examined and then we would select some of our favorites to be included in the exhibition the following year and write a critical essay. I vividly remember the feeling I had that year when examining the chaotic contents of one of the envelopes. It contained a dozen leaflets roughly printed on newsprint with bilingual even trilingual texts (in fact the translations themselves were somewhat inaccurate probably the work of Google Translate); invitations to solo and group exhibitions; some postcards nothing with any further explanation. There were just a few loose sheets that were some kind of attempt at creating a portfolio that would comply with institutional expectations and a series of images of performances and installations whose complexity somehow seemed to surpass the limits of the format. More than self-contained individual pieces of work the work he presented was just one of the many manifestations of larger scale projects whose reach in time and geography is closely linked to the artist’s experience. Then came the realization that I was before something very unique a work that was reclaiming some of the procedures and aesthetic values of conceptual experimentalism from the 1970s in a perceptive and humorous way. (LL)