A cidade do Recife como objeto artístico nas intervenções de Paulo Bruscky

When thinking the relation between art and city, we understand that the artistic manifestations become important cultural sources that if establish as registers of the expressions human beings throughout the time, being determinative factors for the constitution of systems and mental representations that express secular, cultural and space characteristics established by the different urban and social contexts. In this direction, the city as artistic object and not only as mere support for interventions is recurrent question in the workmanship of the artist multimedia Paulo Bruscky. The urban interventions carried through by Bruscky in Recife, have daily and the urban space as raw material, physics and incorporeally constituted of the historical situations, politics, social and aesthetic that are investigated and elaborates for the artist. Searching to understand the relations between the Recife’s town center (its bridges, rivers and squares) and the artistic proposals consisting in interventions/urban performances by the pernambucano artist, we carry through a study concerning works of this artist - produced in the decade of 1970 - that the squares, bridges and rivers of the center of Recife have as raw material. Ahead of these perspectives, this article has as objective to analyze and to describe the main aesthetic and conceptual structures of the interventions/urban performances of Paulo Bruscky, reflecting on as the public space, with its habitual functions and city dwellers, if it articulates with poetical of the artist and the aesthetic questions provoked by these works. For the accomplishment of this study, we use bibliographical research in the areas of theory, critical history and of art and data collected in field, from visits to the atelier of the artist, interviews and registers in photograph, who had allowed to analyze the main sociocultural and historical aspects that surround the production of these interventions.