São Paulo – The Museu da Casa Brasileira (Brazilian House Museum), which is in the city of São Paulo, is presenting a photography exhibit with some of the main series of pictures by Canadian photographer Robert Polidori, among them scenes from Arab countries like Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan. The exhibition began on the 7th of this month and ends on the 12th of November. It includes a total of 39 pictures by Polidori dating back to the 1980s. The photographer has works published in some of the most famous magazines in the world, like Vanity Fair and Newsweek.
From the Arab world, pictures include urban scenes of Alexandria, in Egypt, and Amman, in Jordan. The images of Alexandria and Amman, together with scenes in Varanasi, in India, focus on civil construction and the business streets of the city. There are also images of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, devastated after conflicts in the 1980s. There are also pictures of Havana, in Cuba, and New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, and a photography exhibit inside apartments devastated by vandals in New York, as well as other pictures.
Before the Brazilian House Museum, the exhibition had been to Moreira Salles Institute, in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition was elaborated by Polidori in partnership with Heloisa Espada, who is one of the curators of Moreira Salles institute. The Canadian has already exhibited in Brazil before, but always with other artists. One of them was exhibition "Brasília from 0 to 40 years", in 2000, and another was "Brasil: desFocos (O Olho de Fora)", in 2008.
The photographer, aged 51, was born in Montreal and currently lives in New York. He has already participated in several experimental movies and has worked for magazines Geo, Architectural Digest Germany and Nest Magazine, as well as the other two mentioned above. According to interviews already granted by Polidori, he photographs the "human habitat" or places that are of historic importance. "I aesthetically try to make them into artistic images," said the photographer in a recent interview to O Estado de São Paulo newspaper.
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Robert Polidori, photographs
Up to November 12th
Museu da Casa Brasileira
Av Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 2705
Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
*Translated by Mark Ament
