O Grivo, Cao Guimaraes

Cao Guimarães is a Brazilian visual artist and cineaste, living and working in Belo Horizonte. Guimarães observes Brasilian reality and culture with a documentarist’s eye, focused on the capacity of everyday people to reinvent themselves to survive and resolve each problem with simple, creative and efficient solutions.

O Grivo is an artistic and musical project created in 1990 at Belo Horizonte by Marcos Moreira Marcos and Nelson Soares. The research of O Grivo is marked by their obsession with the utilization of unconventional objects, mechanical or electrical, domestic and modified, if not self-made, for the production of sound. At the same time, O Grivo explores the properties of sound, in the phases of its production as well as in its reproduction. O Grivo has shown its work in the form of performance (or installation) mainly in Brasil, in festivals and music eventsi, in galleries and museums and, recently, at the twenty eighth edition of the Biennale di São Paulo.