S.Paulo etc.

From the footbridge linking Parque Ibirapuera and the new MAC-USP art gallery, São Paulo, by Clairex on Flickr.

Viaduto do Chá, São Paulo, by Clairex on Flickr.

I took this picture the first time I ever came to São Paulo, on a whirlwind 8-hour stopover between London and Buenos Aires. I don’t believe in love at first sight, but it happened that day, no word of a lie, when I met São Paulo.

Barra do Cahy, Bahia, Brazil, by Clairex on Flickr.

This is believed locally to be the spot where the Portuguese first set foot on American soil in 1500, though Porto Seguro is more usually cited.

Lollapalooza, São Paulo, Saturday night.

Tower (1958), by Franz Weissman in the foreground and Bird (1963), by Liuba Wolf beyond, at the MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art), São Paulo.

By Clairex on Flickr.

This is the brand new branch of the MAC, which already has two other locations, including one inside the University of SP. It’s inside a Niemeyer building, formerly DETRAN (dept. of transport), on the other side of the road from Parque Ibirapuera.

Domingo no Minhocão – Sunday on one of São Paulo’s flyovers, Elevado Costa e Silva, better known as the Minhocão, which is closed to traffic on Sundays and at night.

Today there was a wicked party up there by Voodoohop, as part of the BaixoCentro festival, packed with people dancing and hanging about. They’re still there now …

By Clairex on Flickr.

Ttéias, by Lygia Pape
by Clairex on Flickr.

‘Magnetised Spaces’, a retrospective of the Rio artist’s life’s work – she died in 1994 – opened today at the Estação Pinacoteca in São Paulo.

The sandy road, only accessible to walkers, motorbikes, donkeys etc., from Corumbau to Caraiva, Bahia, Brazil, by Clairex on Flickr.

Peach bottom, by Clairex on Flickr.

Lady with a bottom like an imperfect peach, going into a church at the market in Pisac, Peru.

The regular rupture of the Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina, at El Calafate, is happening at the moment– the glacier moves millimetre by millimetre towards the coast of the lake, blocking a flow of water that eventually builds up and breaks through, sending immense blue icebergs crashing into Lake Argentina.

It happens every few years, and people gather there to watch and wait. This pic isn’t of that! but it is of that spectacular glacier.

Pic by Clairex, on Flickr.

BijaRi exhibition, Choque Cultural gallery, São Paulo, by Clairex on Flickr.

Also see this short film of another piece in the exhibition, Still Life, a small-scale video mapping artwork.

Natureza Morta (‘still life’, and more literally, ‘dead nature’) – a small-scale video-mapping artwork by the São Paulo art collective BijaRi, projected in 3D onto a table containing paper weapons and a towel.

Part of Estado de Sitio (‘state of siege’), an exhibition at Choque Cultural art gallery, opening today and running till the end of March 2012.

A caipirinha seen in its natural habitat,

Ilha das Palmeiras,

Angra dos Reis,

Brazil.

Low tide on the river at Appledore, Devon.