Public Art > Circular - Arte na Praça Vinicius de Moraes > “Meu tempo é quando”

São Paulo, 2021

A key personality of Brazilian culture, Vinicius de Moraes (RJ 1913-1980) was a poet, playwright, journalist, diplomat, singer and composer. His work is vast, including literature, theater, cinema and music. Still, he always considered poetry to be his first and greatest vocation, and that all his artistic activity derived from being a poet.

We invited students from the University Center of Fine Arts of São Paulo to imagine a route of works (installations, sculptures, sound works...) in the gardens of Vinicius de Moraes square. The works will pay tribute to the poetry, texts and other works of this great Brazilian artist.

As we did with the Praça Adolpho Bloch, we are doing the same process at the Vinicius de Moraes square, which is at the intersection of Avenida Giovanni Gronchi and Rua Barão de Pirapama, in the Morumbi neighborhood in the west side of São Paulo. It's a very nice square with many of trees, small lakes. It has a track that surrounds it and is about 1,500m with small slopes and slopes, which provide a very pleasurable walk and/or run.

We received 68 proposals from students or groups of students on the theme of this exhibition in honor of Vinicius de Moraes. The great mobilization and the quality of the projects received made it difficult to select the 11 final works selected.

All students deeply immersed themselves in the life and work of the great poet. And have presented works of great diversity, ranging from poems written on flags, through QR codes, to sound installations. The students highlighted the artist's relationship with Rio, São Paulo and Bahia, his view of women, his love for life in a broad sense...

The titles given to the works speak for themselves: Your balance is more than a poem, Afternoon in Itapoã, Social networks, An anatomy of affection…. The public will discover along the paths of the Vinicius de Moraes garden square, swings, hammocks that invite the public to stay in the place and mingle with other visitors, they will be able to read and reread the selected poems that will be inscribed in the works scattered along the route. They will be able to discover sculptures that resemble the hills of Rio, face a mysterious door that opens to infinity... trees-roots-veins...

This exhibition was unfortunately postponed several times because of the Coronavirus Pandemic.