Tuesday, April 10, 2012

April 13, 2012 and April 18, 2012 "Samba Sessâo" Exhibition at Arthur Ross Gallery

"Samba Sessão" Exhibition
Arthur Ross Gallery - University of Pennsylvania
220 S. 34th St., Philadelphia, PA

Friday, April 13, 2012 - Opening Reception
4:15-4:45pm - Whalasa Bateria performs
5:00-7:00pm - Alô Brasil performs

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
4:30-5:30pm - FICA Philadelphia Capoeira Angola Demo
5:30-6:30pm - Samba Dance Class w/ Angelica Cassimiro

All "Samba Sessão" Events are FREE

The exhibition Samba Sessão will introduce viewers to the visual culture of African-descended people living in Brazil, the world's fifth-largest country and a seldom exhibited and little studied area of Latin American art. Formerly home to the largest concentration of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave system in the Western Hemisphere, it has a rich artistic tradition. Collected in the late-1990s by John P. Axelrod and later acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the fifteen paintings and four sculptures that form the core of the exhibition were all made during the twentieth century and draw on different aspects of Afro-Brazilian life, from working in the fields to religious rituals and syncretic belief systems born from the experience of New World enslavement. An examination of Brazilian film and television from the 1950s to the present will also be incorporated in this exhibition.

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