Werewolf and Boitat were the first photo shoots of Nude Folklore?Stripping Brazilian culture. The project, created by South Mato journalist Grosso Andriolli Costa, combines artistic nudity with national myths and legends in a great exercise in folkloric outreach and creativity, will there be seven repetitions in total, each with seven photos?Because that’s the way folklore is. In each photo, a legend will explain a little more each myth depicted.
The objective of the project is to show that the shared repertoire of Brazilian folklore can inspire not only children’s stories, but any type of story, aesthetics is linked to information, with the possibility of innovatively transmitting unknown facts about each creature of the national bestiary. At the end of the essays, a recommended bibliography is available to stimulate deepening and demonstrate that research can be a great source of artistic inspiration.
- The wait is to complete all rehearsals planned by October of this year and to prepare an exhibition in Porto Alegre.
- The invited models.
- At least for this first phase.
- Were all friends or acquaintances who were delighted with the project which has no budget.
- Although the first myths were portrayed by women.
- There will also be men in the future.
It took seven months of planning, research and pre-production to complete the first tests of the product. Andriolli, who runs The Sacis Collector blog and researches folklore at university, has previously worked independently with photography in collaboration with his girlfriend Jessika Andras. both had no experience in nude photographs.
When the project began to be conceived, in search of the relationship between the nudity of the body and the ancestral nature of the myths depicted, Andriolli says he had to look for references. “I ran after intimate rehearsal workshops, talked to friends who were doing this job, offered their friends free rehearsals to test the direction and reference. While preparing for the project ?.
The essays can be viewed via the link http://bit. ly/FolcloreNu or on Facebook at http://fb. com/folclorenu. The next rehearsals are scheduled for August, during folklore week.