Beto Shwafaty

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Beto Shwafaty is a Brazilian conceptual artist, visual researcher and critic.

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Alexandre Arrechea, Havana, 2015 Image courtesy Galeria Nara Roesle 
 In the late 1950s, the art critic Mario Pedrosa said that Brazilians were condemned to be modern. He was writing…

Condemned to Be Modern

Alexandre Arrechea, Havana, 2015 Image courtesy Galeria Nara Roesle In the late 1950s, the art critic Mario Pedrosa said that Brazilians were condemned to be modern. He was writing…

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