Narcelio Grud

Born in Teresina, in the state of Piauí, in 1976, and lives in Fortaleza, Ceará. Narcélio is an artist-inventor who creates animated objects, working on an urban or human scale, producing works of machines that transform the environments where they are installed and provoke the participation of entities that can make a difference in the construction of a more balanced future. In this sense, Narcélio's work not only transforms landscapes but also discusses transformation processes, proposing artistic interventions with low ecological costs. When a passer-by sees the blades of one of his sculptures rotating by the action of the wind, the aesthetic fact and the pedagogical fact that happen there, simultaneously, are present. In 2007, Narcélio presented his first Sound Scraps, a category of work that will be permanently present in the following years: they are sculptures constructed from discarded objects. The sculptures not only represent musical instruments, but are themselves objects that can be played, such as stringed, wind or percussion instruments. Inspired by very diverse sound systems, such as berimbaus, basses, guitars, kalimbas, xylophones, metallophones, musical boxes, string sticks, rain sticks, cuícas, agogôs, drums, tambourines, among others. Narcélio produces installations on an urban scale that establish intense dialogues with the common space and its audiences, either through the transformative impact of his ephemeral interventions (Mara Hope, Sea Bells, Birutas, Festival Concreto), or through the force of certain interventions more perennial. which end up becoming landmarks of the city (Roda Dhamma, Esperançar). The artist and citizen Narcélio understands the urban environment, cities and their neighborhoods, as a place that must be mapped and transformed into an exhibition space, through which he establishes a permanent dialogue with the public that frequents and meets there. He provides a situationist reading of the city, as a place to be discovered, to belong to and that can be transformed by the collective action of creative citizens – in the sense that Beuys attributes to them: “everyone is an artist."