O artista curador: conceitos, precursores e atuação na cena artística paraense

Abstract

In this paper we show a possible trajectory for the artist-curator construction, a lively figure in the field of contemporary arts and with a great action within the paraense art scene. Therefore, we build a trajectory from the first proposal about what we consider as curatorship, since the curiosities collectors until the first museum appearance. After some primary source interviews, associated to literary research we produced living documents from The Paraense Art History, in which we outlined historical facts from the regional scene identifying the process of exhibitions constructing; and some characters who have excelled in the art scene in the context of the nineteenth century to the present day. In the contemporary scene we highlight the actions undertaken by national and regional curators, who revealed to the artist-curator as one of the possible classifications for the contemporary art field of Belém do Pará, where the artist’s job and the curator’s job both intensify and self complement in thinking and making of the target-character: the artist who creates and care.