E por falar em Amor – Conversations on Brazilian culture
On the Night of the Museums, the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography will host ‘E por falar em Amor – Conversations on Brazilian Culture’, a multimodal event organised by the Brazilian Embassy in Bucharest, the BBU Brazilian Cultural Centre ‘Casa do Brasil’, and the Guimarães Rosa Institute.
The event is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on May 23rd and will feature several highlights:
Against the backdrop of an exhibition of paintings by Brazilian artists, the Cultural Attaché of the Brazilian Embassy in Bucharest, Mr Ronaldo Lima Vieira, and his guests, Ms Letícia Portella Milan of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and Ms Andreea Constantin-Poppe, will present the translation project of Marina Colasanti’s Brazilian novel ‘E por falar em Amor’ (Speaking of Love), which Ms Constantin-Poppe translated as part of the Brazilian National Library project. This project was undertaken in collaboration with the Cluj University Press, the BBU Brazilian Cultural Centre ‘Casa do Brasil’, and the Brazilian Embassy in Bucharest. Short films about the Brazilian writer and diplomat João Guimarães Rosa and the Brazilian painter Emeric Marcier, who was born in Cluj, will also be screened.
The film about Rosa Guimarães, the renowned Brazilian writer and diplomat after whom the cultural institutes of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs—known as the Itamaraty Palace—were named, is directed by Izabelle Valadares, a Brazilian writer and the president of the Literarte Literary Association.
A short film dedicated to the renowned Brazilian painter Emeric Marcier is also being produced. Marcier was born Imre Rácz in Cluj in 1916, of Jewish descent, and emigrated to Western Europe, and then to Brazil during World War II. He found a second home in the state of Minas Gerais, whose hills and valleys are reminiscent of Transylvania. It is here, in the city of Barbacena, that the Emeric Marcier Museum is located today — in the house where the painter lived — and it is here that the film’s curator, Luciana Araújo Murta, works.
Amidst the Baroque churches of Minas Gerais, Emeric Marcier found a second religion — Catholicism — which inspired his depictions of Jesus, Mary, and the saints on canvas and in murals.
The event consists of an open conversation and discussion between the speakers and the audience.
