{"id":20559,"date":"2014-09-13T21:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T19:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/errante-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-02T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:30:03","slug":"errante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/errante\/","title":{"rendered":"Errante"},"content":{"rendered":"

Errante, an artwork by H\u00e9ctor Zamora, located at Avenida do Estado, facing the city market, Mercado Municipal de S\u00e3o Paulo, is the first result of the Project Margem, created by Ita\u00fa Cultural. The intervention consists of the elevation of a set of large-sized trees over a 400 meters area, on Tamanduate\u00ed river bed. The trees are supported by an iron framework and steel cables, as if to create a suspended and surreal garden on the surrounding area of a place that is still called Parque D. Pedro II.
\nSuspension is actually the key word to describe this piece, pointing both to its physical and metaphorical reality: the epiphany of another latent, phantasmagorical city, which seems to emerge and rise over the real city, suspending it. The poetic content is paradoxically delicate and aggressive at the same time. On the one hand, the intervention stands onirically in a linear park, in a non-existing terrain, in a reference to the sacrifice of natural spaces and spaces for leisure, by a city that has stricken the \u201cFaustian bargain\u201d for modernization of industries and roadways. On the other hand, the artwork replicates the operations of energetic artificiality and improvisation from a city that is constantly leaping over its difficulties instead of trying to solve them \u2013 as exemplified by the ever-increasing size of helicopters\u2019 fleet in response to urban traffic and violence.\u00a0 Along with Anhangaba\u00fa creek, Tamanduate\u00ed is a river that propitiated S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s beginnings. The river was rectified and canalized in the 1920\u2019s, when Parque D. Pedro II was built, and progressively disappeared from people\u2019s view, hidden by express highways, fences, sewage systems and exit ramps. V\u00e1rzea do Carmo, the access door to Zona Leste, the eastern part of the city,\u00a0 and the traditional area for trading cereals in S\u00e3o Paulo, is today a low-end area, full of conflicts and rife with information, marked by informal trade and street dwellers and the traumatic history of recent vacating of demolition (on-going) of S\u00e3o Vito and Merc\u00fario buildings \u2013 which imposes yet another change on the landscape.<\/p>\n