{"id":278646,"date":"2020-08-17T12:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=278646"},"modified":"2020-08-18T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:32:04","slug":"brazilian-runs-studio-space-for-artists-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-runs-studio-space-for-artists-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian runs studio space for artists in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazilian artist Tarsila Schubert runs a creative studio in Dubai Design District. Four years ago, Schubert founded The Cave DXB, which provides different artists a space to develop their works. \u201cOur goal was sharing a space and making it possible for everyone to have their studio in a more affordable way,\u201d she told ANBA.\u00a0Dubai-based, Schubert also travels the world for work. In the picture above, she was in Milan.<\/em><\/p>\n

People from different countries share the space. The Cave DXB<\/a> has received artist from Slovenia, New Zealand, Lebanon, Syria, and Romania. It also exhibits and displays works by Brazilian artists such as Fernando Chamarelli and photographer Camila Schubert, Tarsila\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n

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The gallery shares the space with studios of artists from different countries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before the pandemic, The Cave was divided into nine studios, but the crisis caused some artists to leave the space. Now, five of them have maintained their studios there, and there are spaces available for new artists.<\/p>\n

The creative house, as The Cave DXB is defined, has existed since 2016, when the Brazilian decided to expand her work and receive more artists. \u201cI started with my own space. The Cave was supposed to be a space to produce together, but I started by providing consulting, hosting workshops, curating, and it got bigger,\u201d says Schubert, who has had a Dubai-based foreign artist partner for a year and a half.<\/p>\n

Street Art in Dubai<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of Tarsila’s murals in Dubai Design District<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to all The Cave\u2019s work fronts, the Brazilian also works with street artist in her individual artistic career. The art came into Shubert\u2019s life when she started living with her grandmother. While growing up, she lived with her parents in different cities, until they moved to Bolivia, while she and her sister went to live with their grandmother in Bauru, S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy grandmother was a painter, but a more academic one. I started learning how to paint with her. I wanted to study Visual Arts but eventually was accepted into Dental school at a private college. When we had financial troubles, my grandmother said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you make some paintings and sell them to help you pay for it?\u2019\u201d the 32-year-old artist recalled. She sold the entire first batch of paintings. \u201cI believe may friends supported me quite a bit,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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The Brazilian also has works exhibited in other countries. This is a mural she made in Beirut, Lebanon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One year after her first exhibition, Tarsila dropped out Dental school and started learning about street art and spray techniques with her friends. The experiences made her discover other forms of expression. \u201cMy boyfriend at the time worked with visual arts, 3D and projection. He and a friend of ours taught me animation. I did some work with them, including the New Year\u2019s Eve in Rio de Janeiro, when we met someone from Dubai. He said he was looking for artists for a job and that they would have to move to Dubai within a month. We thought that was weird, but my boyfriend decided to go first to see how it worked. One month later I came,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She moved to the country for the eight-month project, but ended up staying in the emirate, where she has lived for almost nine years. \u201cI started working hard because I wouldn\u2019t go back to Bauru. I started a portfolio and sent it to all galleries I could find. One answered me and then I moved here for real, and things started happening. It was all very organic,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The artist says that, when she moved in 2012, she couldn\u2019t find any incentive for this art. In 2014, she and other artists obtained their first permit to work with a mural. \u201cI made my first public wall during a festival. Since then, murals, which were strictly forbidden, started being encouraged. At first, the most hired artists were pop-art and realist ones. Now, there is an investment for this kind of art, which is a positive marketing for Dubai,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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In addition to murals, the artist also creates installations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the country opened for street art projects, the Brazilian managed to develop her own festival. \u201cI made a festival in the Design District with murals and installations. There were still some trouble getting a permit, and the arts were more abstract, but the artistic freedom is much bigger now,\u201d she says about the event she developed in 2017 and still has some works exhibited around the district. \u201cFor the following years, I believe that it will get even better. I have a positive outlook,\u201d she finished.<\/p>\n

With the crisis and the lockdown, the events the gallery had schedule for this year are still suspended. But for now, besides keeping producing and developing online projects with other artists, the Brazilian is participating in a campaign to support the victims of the explosion in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, earlier this month. The campaign is being shared on Tarsila\u2019s social media and is a collaboration with art space The Workshop DBX. \u201cWe can help Lebanon recover from this catastrophe. One hundred percent of the proceeds from these prints will be donated to non-governmental organizations,\u201d she said. One work that the artist is donating in support of Lebanon can be seen on her Instagram account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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