A theater on the horizon
Raquel do Carmo Santos
More than the construction of a laboratory theater for performing arts students andbody, the moment represents the concretization of the arts as a real object of research at the University”. With these words, professor Helena Jank, director of the Institute of Arts (IA), began the award ceremony for the National Public Competition for Ideas for the Unicamp Theater-Laboratory, on the 24th. The IA director did not hide its satisfaction in observing that the proposal to build the new theater was accepted and discussed in the academic environment, in recent months, with the same respect with which other University projects are treated. “I think it is an extremely important milestone for art at Unicamp”, she declares.
The competition was held in partnership with the Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB) and awarded a team of young architects from São Paulo with the best set of ideas for construction. The group is made up of Fernando Viegas, Fernanda Barbara, Fábio Valentim, Cristiane Muniz and Clóvis Cunha. Secondly, the architect Lílian de Almeida Dalpian signed the plan and thirdly, Paulo Batorene. Five honorable mentions from professionals from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro were also highlighted. The best works were only known during the ceremony, as all projects were judged, using predetermined numbers, without the authors knowing. First place received a prize of R$20, with second place receiving a prize of R$15 and R$10 for third place.
In total, 83 projects were selected from the 160 applications received from all regions of the country. The coordinator of the public competition, Ronald Tanimoto, from the IAB, said he was surprised by the technical level of the work. “We had a hard time choosing the best idea.” He clarified that the judging committee chose to offer five honorable mentions so as not to fail to reward projects that stood out for their quality. Tanimoto further explained that this type of award gives recently graduated architects the opportunity to compete with more traditional professionals in the market. Although, for ethical reasons, the names of the competitors were not disclosed, Tanimoto guaranteed that the 15 best Brazilian architects participated in the selection.
Award-winning project – According to Fernando Viegas, the proposal for the construction is to provide unity between the existing buildings with the facilities of the performing and body arts departments and the theater building. According to the chosen project, the main entrance becomes Rua Bertrand Russel, where a large construction begins that would house, on an upper floor, rooms for circus, dance and other activities. “It would be an environment that would serve subjects with special needs,” he says. These rooms were designed with 10 meter high ceilings. A balcony on the lower floor gives access to an events plaza and parking for 80 vehicles.
The theater building would be built in a central position and connected by small bridges with the buildings that currently house the Institute of Arts (which involves the Music and Fine Arts departments) with the new facilities for performing and body arts.
With a ceiling height of 21 meters, it is possible to incorporate various configurations into the new laboratory space, such as the well-known Italian, Elizabethan, arena and full stages. “The shapes of the buildings resemble an urban space.” This is justified, according to Viegas, because one of the ideas is to bring an urban design to the campus.
In the coming weeks, the work will go through the improvement phase before construction can begin. The resources for construction, in the order of R$3 million, come from extra-budgetary funds and are already reserved for this purpose. An exhibition with all the winners is open to the university community at the IA Art Gallery, from 9 am to 17 pm, until June 28th.
1st Prize
Authors: Architects Clovis Cunha, Cristiane Muniz, Fabio Valentim, Fernanda Bárbara and Fernando F. Viegas.
Consultant: Architect Gustavo Lanfranchi
Collaborators: André Yamaguishi Ciampi, Carolina Nobre, Gustavo Pimentel and Marcio Wanderley.
2st Prize
Architects Lilian de Almeida Dal Pian, Renato Dal Pian, Pablo Chakur, Carlos Henrique Nagano Engineer Enio Canavello Barbosa
3st Prize
Architects Paula Bartorelli, Ana Carolina Penna, Laura Assaf, Fábio Dias Mendes and Rodrigo Sobreiro
Short film wins award at festival
Maria Alice da Cruz
Who knows, a short film in cartoon shape Produced by Unicamp professor Wilson Lazaretti, it won the award for best direction at the 6th Curitiba Film, Video and DCine Festival. The name so familiar to many Brazilians is inspired by the best-known modinha by composer Carlos Gomes, performed by great names in lyrical music, such as Bidu Sayão, and Brazilian popular music, such as Ná Ozetti, not by chance chosen to compose the soundtrack of the film by Lazaretti, with an arrangement written by musician and conductor Paulo Rolands, a former Unicamp student. This is Lazaretti's third lyric video.
The plot has as its axis the desire of the citizen of Campinas to rebuild the Municipal Theater, demolished in 1965 by the then mayor Ruy Novaes. A young woman comes from the other side of the world, more precisely from Japan, singing the song Quem Sabe, by Carlos Gomes, one of Lazaretti's honorees. Then she passes through Egypt, the North Pole, Spain, the Amazon until she reaches Campinas, where she comes across the theater on the ground and begins to rebuild it. All images contain the theater design in the background. According to Lazaretti, the use of water in the designs represents a problem that has never been solved: leaks that compromise the structure of one of the city's current theaters.
In the animator's opinion, Campinas is a culturally rich city. It has a symphony orchestra, a community center, Castro Mendes and has an economic power capable of recovering the theater. He believes “that petitions do not solve problems, but people have to recover from inertia”.
Wilson Lazaretti has more than 150 productions in his filmography. In January of this year, he won the award for best animated film with the work Gota Borralheira, at the Teresina Festival. He was one of the creators of the Nucleo de Cinema e Animação de Campinas 27 years ago. Today, the nucleus's address is his own residence. NCAC is responsible for large animation projects spread across Brazil. With the goodwill of teachers and students, they traveled all over Brazil bringing information to children in public schools, the Amazon and the Xingu Indians. He stayed in Pantanal from 1984 to 1988. “It was an adventure that was worth it for the exchange of experiences. I acquired knowledge,” he recalls.
His history with animation began at the Carlos Gomes Conservatory, when he was invited by Léa Zigiatti to teach classes to children on the school's art course. During the course, he built a film project, making a camera out of a shoe box. It was at this moment that he decided to go into cartooning. “Animation is a graphic representation of movement, it is a philosophy”, expresses the animator. He guarantees that he sought independent training, influenced by Bernardo Caro, his arts teacher at high school and now a fellow student at the Unicamp Arts Institute. “There is an art school that teaches based on reproductions of Disney, Hanna Barbera. It's a branch, but not the most important one. It has to start from the roots, from the knowledge you have acquired”, he reflects.
