"Um pintor natural": construções da autenticidade a partir de Malangatana Valente Ngwenya
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2023-01-31
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Fujisawa, Mariana 
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Goldstein, Ilana Seltzer
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Dissertação de mestrado
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O presente trabalho visa analisar a construção do conceito de autenticidade na segunda metade do século XX em Moçambique a partir do estudo do artista Malangatana Valente Ngwenya (1936-2011). Compreendendo a autenticidade de maneira ampla, como critério de (des)valorização artística capaz de se adaptar a diferentes contextos históricos, geográficos, políticos e sociais, a dissertação analisa tanto o seu uso no contexto euro-americano a partir de exposições fundamentais que abarcaram artes africanas entre 1929 e 1989, quanto suas facetas nas artes moçambicanas. Visa-se, assim, desvelar os processos subjacentes às interpretações de que Malangatana seria um artista natural, autodidata e autenticamente africano, moçambicano e/ou revolucionário. Por meio da leitura crítica de narrativas sobre sua trajetória biográfica, da análise formal de algumas de suas obras e da exposição de agentes e acontecimentos histórico-sociais fundamentais à formação do artista, são evidenciadas intenções de torná-lo paradigma, seja de uma arte africana “não contaminada” pelo colonialismo, seja de uma arte moderna representativa da nova nação moçambicana pós-independência.
The present work aims to analyze the construction of the concept of authenticity in the second half of the 20th century in Mozambique based on the study of the artist Malangatana Valente Ngwenya (1936-2011). Understanding authenticity in a broad way, as a criterion of artistic (de)valuation capable of adapting to different historical, geographic, political, and social contexts, the dissertation analyzes both its use in the Euro-American context from fundamental exhibitions that encompassed African arts between 1929 and 1989, as well as its facets in the Mozambican arts. The aim is thus to reveal the processes underlying the interpretations that Malangatana would be a natural, self-taught and authentically African, Mozambican and/or revolutionary artist. Through the critical reading of narratives about his biographical trajectory, the formal analysis of some of his works and the exposition of agents and historical-social events fundamental to the artist's formation, intentions are evidenced to make him a paradigm, whether of an African art “uncontaminated” by colonialism, or modern art representative of the new post-independence Mozambican nation.
The present work aims to analyze the construction of the concept of authenticity in the second half of the 20th century in Mozambique based on the study of the artist Malangatana Valente Ngwenya (1936-2011). Understanding authenticity in a broad way, as a criterion of artistic (de)valuation capable of adapting to different historical, geographic, political, and social contexts, the dissertation analyzes both its use in the Euro-American context from fundamental exhibitions that encompassed African arts between 1929 and 1989, as well as its facets in the Mozambican arts. The aim is thus to reveal the processes underlying the interpretations that Malangatana would be a natural, self-taught and authentically African, Mozambican and/or revolutionary artist. Through the critical reading of narratives about his biographical trajectory, the formal analysis of some of his works and the exposition of agents and historical-social events fundamental to the artist's formation, intentions are evidenced to make him a paradigm, whether of an African art “uncontaminated” by colonialism, or modern art representative of the new post-independence Mozambican nation.
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FUJISAWA, Mariana. "Um pintor natural": construções da autenticidade a partir de Malangatana Valente Ngwenya. 2023. Dissertação (Mestrado em História da Arte) - Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Guarulhos, 2023.