Ricardo Basbaum

Born in: 1961
From: São Paulo, Brazil
Lives and works: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Represented by: Martins & Montero
Website: https://rbtxt.wordpress.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Basbaum

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Biography

Ricardo Basbaum is an artist and writer whose artistic practice relies on communities and follows his own vocabulary. Utilizing methods of diagrams, choreographies, games, exercises, he generates public participation through “collective conversations”. He created the form NBP (New Basis Personality) a framework of connections forming a basis of sociological projects exploring communication strategies of different sections of society for example education centres, youth clubs, retirement homes, domestic worker’s unions.

Basbaum’s highly conceptual practice relies on events, like Happenings during the 1960s in America. The importance of visitor reactions incited by art in a participatory, performative environment can be related to Hélio Oiticicia’s artistic practice.

He forms part of a generation of artists who created in a time of political renewal marking the end of the military dictatorship and introducing ultra liberalism to Brazil’s economic system. Similar to Guillaume Deslile and the Age of Discovery, Basbaum is an explorer who restructures and records his reflections of space in cartographical renditions of cities.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2014, Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada: The production of the artist as a collective conversation
2013, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Diagramas
2012, Logan Center Gallery, University of Chicago, USA: Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?
2007, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria: La Société du Spectacle (& NBP)
2000, MAM RJ Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: NBP x eu-você