An artwork presented at the exhibition Future Generation Art Prize 2012 (Shortlist 2012), in Kiev (Ukraine), in 2012–2013, “Nostalgia, sentimento de classe” garnered Jonathas de Andrade one of the six special prizes conferred to young artists by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
The work reproduces the panel of a tropical modernist house, in real size, transforming the tiles of this house into fiberglass pieces with the same dimensions as the original ones (15 x 15 x 10 cm).
Like in a ruin, parts of this panel are removed and substituted by words from a manifesto on issues concerning architecture, life and humanity, and their role in the history of civilization. This operation removes the text’s contextual content, revealing its activist political structure, as well as the utopian tone that pertains to bygone times. For Jonathas de Andrade, ruin and utopia currently feed a nostalgic relation with the past in which history and modernity take on the role of goods of consumption.
An artwork presented at the exhibition Future Generation Art Prize 2012 (Shortlist 2012), in Kiev (Ukraine), in 2012–2013, “Nostalgia, sentimento de classe” garnered Jonathas de Andrade one of the six special prizes conferred to young artists by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
The work reproduces the panel of a tropical modernist house, in real size, transforming the tiles of this house into fiberglass pieces with the same dimensions as the original ones (15 x 15 x 10 cm).
Like in a ruin, parts of this panel are removed and substituted by words from a manifesto on issues concerning architecture, life and humanity, and their role in the history of civilization. This operation removes the text’s contextual content, revealing its activist political structure, as well as the utopian tone that pertains to bygone times. For Jonathas de Andrade, ruin and utopia currently feed a nostalgic relation with the past in which history and modernity take on the role of goods of consumption.
