José Agrippino de Paula: artista POP tropicalista

Abstract

Este texto trata do pensamento, da vida e da obra do artista pop tropicalista José Agrippino de Paula. Partindo de uma série de conversas com o artista, serão abordados seus eventos intermídia, seu cinema de invenção, os happenings, o realismo fantástico, e as vivências dos anos 1960 e 1970. Este texto foi elaborado concomitantemente ao lançamento do CD/DVD Exu encruzilhadas , Selo SESC, disco contendo dez músicas inéditas de Agrippino, encontradas pelo cineasta Hermano Penna e um DVD com dois filmes realizados na África, em Super8, Candomblé no Togo e Candomblé no Dahomey.This paper deals with the thought, life and works of tropicalist pop artist José Agrippino de Paula. Based on a series of interviews with the artist, it approaches his intermidia events, his cinema of invention, his ,happenings, his fantastic realism and the experiences of the 60s and 70s. This paper was prepared concomitantly with the release by Dual Disc Selo SESC of Exu Encruzilhadas, a multimedia CD containing not only ten previously unreleased song by Agrippino, found by filmmaker Hermano Penna, but also two of his Super8 films shot in África, Candomblé no Togo and Candomblé no Dahomey.

Keywords

• pop tropicalismo
• contracultura
• cinema de invenção
• intermídia
• pop tropicalism
• counterculture
• cinema of invention
• intermidia