em

pleno bloomsday, dia 16 de Junho

(de 2019), lançado o PhotoBook

"ODYSSEUS HORIZONTALIZED", contendo 145 desenhos/pinturas de otacílio Melgaço.

São 210 páginas; introdução (em

Inglês) assinada por Milan

Vesselovský,artista visual Tcheco.

A obra retrata aquela que seria

uma jornada de 24 horas pela cidade

habitada por O.M., Belo Horizonte,

tendo o testemunho ulissesiano de

sua arquitetura como cartografada (e metaforizada) concretude-em-Odisseia.

Disponível para apreciação e aquisição

em Amazon Books (Kindle Store) ou, se preferir, entre em contato diretamente

com o autor/Mel-em-Branca Editora

por meio do seguinte correio eletrônico: melgacianesque@gmail.com

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veja 24 dos engendros, aqui. 

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on June 16 (bloomsday), 2019, the PhotoBook

"ODYSSEUS HORIZONTALIZED", containing

145 drawings / paintings by Otacílio

Melgaço, was released. There are 210

pages; introduction signed by Milan Vesselovský, Czech visual artist.

The work portrays what would be

a 24-hour journey through the city

inhabited by O.M., Belo Horizonte,

having the Ulissesian testimony

of its architecture as cartographied

(and metaphorized) concreteness-in-Odyssey.

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See 24 pictures, here.

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PhotoBook containing all

the pictures that were part of

Melgaço's first solo exhibition,

"Anagké Kai Chrónos ou Do Mel-em-Branca

Aos Vergéis Encantados...", which occurred

in 2004 [Belo Horizonte / MG / Brazil]. O.M. had approached spectra of his Sagas through the Sertão of Minas Gerais (and fringes of southern Bahia), facialized

into living characters of its ´personal Enchanted´. There are 133 pages, with the introduction of lenswoman Leila Kannenberg [bilingual (English-Portuguese)] and, as an appendix, an ample interview of the artist to journalist Ana Machado (P/Zine).

 

See 05 pictures, here.

Livro eletrônico contendo todas as fotografias que fizeram parte da primeira exposição individual de Otacílio Melgaço - "Anagké Kai Chrónos ou Do Mel-em-Branca

Aos Vergéis Encantados..." - ocorrida no

ano de 2004 em Belo Horizonte/MG. O.M. abordara espectros das próprias Sagas pelo Sertão de Minas Gerais [e por

franjas do sul baiano], facializados

em personagens vivas do (seu)

´Encantado pessoal´. São 133 páginas, contando com introdução da retratista Leila Kannenberg [em Português/Inglês] e, como apêndice, uma ampla entrevista

do artista concedida à jornalista

Ana Machado (P/Zine).

 

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     A

26 de Março de 2021, o terceiro número

de Θevrumineś, com 459 páginas.

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Artbook "PAVILLON DE L´ALMA",

containing 236 Paintings, Mosaics, Photos + Sculptures, Tapestries, Tiles Projects by Otacílio Melgaço. There are 274 pages; introduction signed by Anushka Lakshmi, Asiatic philosopher. "O.M., for me, has a fluidly Renaissance spirit. And so I allow myself to visit Indian mythology and say that he reminds me of some Hindu deities who have countless arms. Thus, its qualities are numerous. Multiple, plural and synergistic. In this fascinating Oeuvre in focus, between lyrical and geometric abstractionism, despite occasionally flirting with figurative art, Melgaço seems to morph forms & colors into a mysterious, sui generis Calligraphy audible." (A.L.)

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See some pictures, here.

 

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On 12/12 of 2021,

the eBook "Furious Sphinx [THE MOST AUDIBLE TRANSFERAL OF A DEAFENING Æ N I G M A]" 

was published, which deals with

the Melgacian sound cosmos

through multiple constellations

of lookouts. Such work can be

downloaded for free through

the following link.

In addition, a record album was part

of such a monumental event. created exclusively for. Here it is.

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With Epigraph by Azusa Seyama;

Prologue by Pablo S. Paz; Interlude

by Sílvia Maria Vilarejo and Essays

by Nicolette Michalla, Laetitia

Reboul, Denismar do Nascimento;

postlude by Caio Campbell;

Otacílio Melgaço's sonic universe

is approached from immersive

and plural points of view. Or rather,

trans audio points. Or plans. Beyond

the musical uterinity itself brought

to the fore, "fURIOUS SPHINX [THE MOST

AUDIBLE TRANSFERAL OF A DEAFENING

Æ N I G M A]" also flirts with dance, philosophy, mythology, poetics, visual

arts et cetera. In this way,

it is a reflection / refl´Aktion;

it is a thousand face

mirror of the polysemic

and omnipresent O.M.´s career. 

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In celebratory tone,
on the 28th of May / 2023,
a dreamlike Melgacian Work
comes to light embodied in an eBook:
蜂蜜と鋼
- g h o s t

m u s i c

a n d 

b u t o h

i n

l i v i n g

f l e s h -

 

Under the aegis of Mel-em-Branca Pub Co., the Oeuvre has 287 pages, intermediated

by photographs & engravings, with

an Introduction by Beljana Metje

- German dancer, choreographer,

illustrator -.
 

It is an Opuscule conceptually structured as a kaleidoscope, from which there are idiosyncratic fragments echoing polyphonic voices, both self-contained and interpenetrating. A ´spectral´ choir? Yes,

we´re probably facing a conjuration of what could be called (artistically / apotheotically) 'Phantasmagoria'. But,

after all, in what sense? Here there is

an ethereal intersection of the figures

of Tatsumi Hijikata / Kazuo Ohno

and Otacílio Melgaço. 
 

The Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist, taking the denominative perspective of <<Ghost Dance>> as

a reference, brings to the public

a compositional expression that already existed beforehand in its career but that gains, from now on, such baptism: <<Ghost Music>>, an equally fluxuous concept,

as one of the multifarious effigies of

his polystylistic mosaic. Intertwined with Butoh - as well as surrealism, expressionism, etc. -, Melgaço

proposes to us, through

蜂蜜と鋼, the sprinkling of

constitutive pollens of this sonic

language that hovers over such fresh supercalifragilisticexpialidocious release.

 

Plus - we can also uncover a link in that Publication to takes us to a Sound Piece (<<KAMKAKAMI>>) created especially

for this occasion.

 

To unveil 

蜂蜜と鋼
- g h o s t

m u s i c

a n d 

b u t o h

i n

l i v i n g

f l e s h -

for free, simply click the following link.

 

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A Graphic Novel by Otacílio Melgaço,

u r i z e n.

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This release is, until then, an unprecedented work, fulfilling the role

of being an Introduction to the forthcoming series. In it, we will meet the character

OTTO KAVENDISH, who interconnects with

the plurality of surreal personae, ineffable scenarios, veins and

viscera of the hamlet that

gives its name to this oeuvre.

 

A painter of portraits and still lifes (flauto player in his exotic intimacy),

he absorbs, metabolizes and reflects

on the pulsating time-in-earth of this intriguing place, both as a voyeur and

a flâneur. Whether through its ingrained interaction with the eccentric panorama

of such unsituable burgh, or athwart

his memory, especially replete with imaginations, inventions, hallucinations.

 

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Everything happens during the dawn and dusk of a same day, May 28, 1918. Suffice

it to say that we are in a frank pandemic,

the so-called (a common misnomer) Spanish flu. And, in equal measure, it is worth

noting that the globe is still experiencing the palpitation of the First World War.

 

In the end, when words come to the superficies, KAVENDISH writes a missive (to

a hidden personage? to himself? or to

us?) in which he faces a reality that completely transcends any waking life.

 

The illustrations, based on paintings by James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (1860 – 1949), are interventions by Melgaço transcreating lines & colors, in a

minute - and fascinating - process

of refiguration and recontextualization.

 

There are 359 pages, which also include

an enlightening interview with Otacílio.

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Made to be viewed more appropriately on mobile devices, especially smartphones.

 

Otacílio Melgaço engendered

a Soundtrack to be listened while

reading u r i z e n. Elevating the dimensional reach of the Graphic Novel

to new heights. The link that takes the reader to this sonic addendum is

contained inside the eBook.

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STUDIO 28, A PHOTOGRAPHIC 
ANTI-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF/BY 
OTACÍLIO MELGAÇO 

 

When exhibited in monumental proportions throughout megalopolises, the artist

casts his gaze upon conurbations and city denizens, like a kind of blasé sphinx. When through urban installations, there is

a serialization that seems to be at once mantric and sharply provocative. When

he enters art galleries, the stare of

the same figure, even through its ocular veil, intersects with that of the spectators, as if they were all through a daredevil looking glass. When it is his own works and treasured objects that project his image onto the corpolatry of the reliquaries, what is iconic and what is emblematic merges even more. When, finally,

the portraits directly reveal the complexion of the cited and recited

artist, our labyrinthine focuses, until

then choreographed between kaleidoscopic fragments, form the appearance of

an abducting modern minotaur, yet indecipherable in its devouring

enchantment that both magnetizes

and enraptures. Intersectioning

mythologies, σφίγξ - a creature with

the head of a human, the body of a lion,

the wings of an eagle - and Μινώταυρος

(or Asterion) - portrayed during classical antiquity with the top and tail of a bull and the frame of a person or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being ´part man and part taurus´ -, ultimately, we are devoured and we devour; we are deciphered but here is the point outside the curve: when it

comes to O.M., there is still much to

be deciphered. To our de-light.
 

If there were a script flowing through

the more than 500 pages of studio 28,

A PHOTOGRAPHIC ANTI-AUTOBIOGRAPHY, perhaps this would be it. As is now clear, an anti-autobiography of Melgaço by Otacílio.
 

Henri Cartier-Bresson once said:

´I believe that, through the act of

living, the discovery of one-self is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A

balance must be established between

these two worlds – the one inside us and

the one outside us. As the result of a constant reciprocal process, both these worlds come to form a single one. And it

is this world that we must communicate´.

This is the world that studio 28 (post-babelically) communicates. 

 

Otacílio Melgaço is an artist who is practically averse to photography (or

any other form of visual recording) when

it comes to himself. Images of Melgaço are rare, and the few that have been taken, Otacílio says with good humor, exists only

to prove that he himself exists. How then could a work as studio 28 have come into the world? With 571 pages, 251 of which are portraits of the artist? The answer lies

in the surreal veracity of the pictures themselves present in this monumental visual Oeuvre and also in what the Greek iconologist & film-maker Zephyra Zafeiris plus the Ukrainian poet Elizae Stepanova, wrote, respectively, in the Foreword and Afterword of such Melgacian ANTI-AUTOBIOGRAPHY, in a clairvoyant tone.

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