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CAPACETE
ENTRETENIMIENTOS (CAPACETE ENTERTAINMENT)
Director: Helmut Batista
Rua do Russel 300, apartment 601
Zip code 22210-010 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
capacete@visualnet.com.br
www.capacete.net
CAPACETE
entertainment has as an objective to show and produce conceptual works
in special contexts thus, opening the possibility to multiple artistic
strategies. CAPACETE entertainment registers its activities and is
a starting point to represent national or international artists individually
or in groups.
It is of basic interest to represent or give an opportunity to the
continuity of not only language, but also, work as a platform so as
to build up the artist’s background, documenting his/her production
or just reaching the public with his/her artistic content.
CAPACETE entertainment tries to give visibility and encourage the
exhibition of works which are usually shown at fixed locations. Its
main interest lies on the fact of showing works of art in galleries
or in the city like an urban context, thus in multiple ways.
It started its activities in July, 1998 with the name of Space P,
at a residential apartment on the street Paissandu, in the neighborhood
of Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro, later the name changed for Space Purplex.
In 1999, it became Capacete Projects, and worked jointly with AGORA
until the end of 2001 under the name Capacete entertainment. Today
its headquarters are in the area of Gloria in Rio de Janeiro. Capacete
is invited to the Biennial of 2002 to present its new concept of mobile
desk/production with two projects of Marie-Ange Guilleminot and Marssares.
Since 2002, its headquarters and main activity space have been the
cinema school of Darcy Ribeiro. For the year 2003, it was granted
a scholarship by the Foundation of Daniel Langlois.
Many of the works done by CAPACETE entertainment in the recent years
have had the objective of re-making, transforming, revamping and revealing
parts of the city in a very different way. (exhibitions by Rubens
Mano / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster/Bruno Serralongue / Pierre Huyghe
/ Marssares / Ana Infante / Ducha / Tiago Carneiro da Cunha / Shimabukuro
/ Pierre Bismuth / Marssares / Cinema Capacete, etc.)
These projects work like interfaces between the city and an image
(dynamic or static) or a word (written or spoken) in an attempt to
deepen a series of spaces that show a constant mutation of the urban
centers of a metropolis in their counterpoint between narrative and
place, language and location, politics and collective sensitiveness,
architecture, social and public space, nature and technological advancements.
It has risen against different aspects of the urban centers so as
to define or create new kinds of languages (in written, spoken or
visual ways) thus transforming the urban environment into a historical
circuit of personal experience.
CAPACETE entertainments develops this agenda through several strategies
like the journal PLANETA CAPACETE and ARTISTS CATALOGS (1) in their
mobile desk “A banca N-2” (2) a residence program (3) and
in collaboration with other organizations and festivals (4) so as
to foster new ways of thinking within the artistic context, shifting
the trend or the various centers of the metropolis to places where
the experiences we think we know, whether we are interested in the
place or the experience.
The coordinator of CAPACETE ENTERTAINMENTS is Helmut Fuhrken Batista.
Helmut lived in Paris between 1985 and 1988, and studied at ESAT (Ecole
Superior des arts et du teatre). He worked as a camera assistant in
several films. Between 1988 and 1992, he lived in Vienna, where he
worked as a scenery and director assistant for the “Viennese
Opera”. He released the books “Public Intervention”
(Vienna, 1991), “The Interventionist” (Vienna, 1994) and
“You Do Not Need To Pay, But You Have To Consume It” (Milan,
1997). Some of his solo exhibitions: Masataka Hayakawa Gallery in
Tokyo; Raum aktueller Kunst (Martin Jander), Vienna; Neon Gallery
in Bolonia; Sales Gallery in Rome; Massimo de Carlo Gallery in Milan;
ARS Futura Gallery in Zurich; Schipper&Krome Gallery in Berlin;
Air de Paris in Paris, Jennifer Flay Gallery in Paris; Villa Arson
in Nice; Plug-in Gallery in Winnipeg; Or Gallery in Vancouver; The
Banff Center in Banff; Torch Gallery in Wissenschaft in Vienna, 1996
and the Atelhier of Auslandskunst-Fotografie in Vienna, 1993. |