D r a m a t u r g y

"T r i l o g y - I"

Gewollt

Her(r)envolk

Anatomia de um Enigma

Respectively bring references and do obeisance to the Greek Theatre,

the Elizabethan and modern - this, dedicated to Samuel Beckett. The first trilogy received translation into German of Curt Meyer-Clason. Some of the most important Brazilian authors were moved to the German language by Herr Meyer-Clason, as Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Manuel Bandeira João Cabral de Melo Neto. He

was particularly known as a translator of João Guimarães Rosa.

[plus] Will be exposed excerpts (original copies) of

the correspondence that took place between CM-C. and O.M.

In one of the letters exchanged by both physical (connection Munich - Belo Horizonte), in opinion of the illustrious translator about Melgacian drama, Curt stated the following verbatim: "(...) I am sure I read something convincingly current and auspicious: drama, apparently static, but a dynamic intimately (dramatization) unsurpassed. Congratulations to your genius for inventiveness, theatricality and understanding of

(if not THE) issue of our ´existential today´."]

read some fragments (in Portuguese)

"T r i l o g y - II" (a.k.a.

´La Sangre Es Más Dulce Que La Miel´) -

A Vida

Os Pobres na Praia

Os Saltimbancos

(Melgaço flirts with Pablo Picasso in his second dramaturgical triptych.)
 

"Stabat Mater"

(Based on poems - transplanted from Spanish to Portuguese by OM. -

of Santa Teresa D'Avila)

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>>The entire dramaturgical work of O.M. was published and,

in Portuguese, available for purchase on amazon books. If you prefer, please contact the author directly: here.<<

[PLUS] Engenders Theory (to unfold thereafter as Method) for his

"Theatre Ecstatic" ©

F i l m o g r a p h y

Le Guide des Perplexes  

filmic Experiment coming to light in the post-adolescent artist with tarkovskyan and bergmanian influences.

Short film / 16 mm -, scripted and directed by Melgaço, was exhibited

(April 1994) in Usina Banco Nacional de Cinema (Belo Horizonte / MG).

Free inspiration in Maimonides.

check out some stills.

V i d e o g r a p h y

V i d e o  A r t

´FRACTAL´ series
 

sob a sua letra 'M'
oppressive Uninvisibility
Nudo-des-Nudo
Ragan
Argus
Orquidário
Stanzas for Music
Il N'y Aura
epos
Paranoia Oder Verwunderung?
Anechoic Chamber Music
Orugooru
vertical Pier
Cledalismic

Furthermore, several video clips and teasers.

Watch here.

P h o t o g r a p h y

"Anagke Kai Chronos

ou

Do Mel-em-Branca Aos Vergéis Encantados"
 

Individual exhibition from the mythical universe of the writer João Guimarães Rosa. La Brace Gallery, then located in Paraíba Street, 1279 - Savassi - Belo Horizonte/MG. Curator: Papoula Bicalho. From 07 October to 03 November / 2004. The Journal ´O Tempo´ referred to the exhibition as "pictures of ´minerian Being´ with an innuendo of supernaturality." 

see photos.

Buy the photobook which contains all the photos [besides bilingual (english-portuguese] introduction and interview): here.

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

"It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth." - Jorge Luis Borges

"Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside." - Haruki Murakami

"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world." - Joseph Campbell

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 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, in its allegorical extent and giving the images the stature of Melgacian effigies, STUDIO 28

(post-babelically) communicates.

There are 251 photographs, 571 pages in total, with the Foreword written by the Greek iconologist & film-maker Zephyra Zafeiris and the Afterword by the Ukrainian poet Elizae Stepanova. And furthermore, at the author's suggestion, internal links lead to some of O.M.'s albums, related to the theme of this eBook, so that they can be listened to while enjoying it.

"The desire for images resides in the anticipation of our memory and in

the optic instinct which seeks to appropriate the world's splendor”, uttered Evgen Bavčar. Otacílio Melgaço proposes this to us, to possess and equally to be possessed by the splendor of the world, his and ours. Draw with light.

You can access it here.
 

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D a n c e
 
melgaço Designs theory dedicated to the world of dance and gives it

the name "Cordiographia" ®. It´s based on the deconstruction of

(the figure of) Choreographer and a plural and more interpenetrating relationship between Musician and Dancer.
 
in favor of sporadic presentations, Founded in 2015,

the KOAN Dance Company.
In the same year the debut through spectacle 'Queda Livre'

(フリーフォール / Free Fall).

See the website of the Company.

And here the soundtrack.

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In seven short pieces, seven cutting edge choreographers - with

the collaboration of dancers from ICK and Ballet National de Marseille - show the audience what fascinates them and moves them to the creators of dance. The performance, not unlike a laboratory, using the body as the main source of inspiration and strength. Raw to stylized, political, technological, minimalistic or expressive: 7EVEN displays the diversity of contemporary dance. The seven dancers of ICK and Ballet National de Marseille will rise to the challenge in order to capture the essence of each choreographer in every single piece. With the Canadian-Polish choreographer and performer Ula Sickle, in 2017, melgaço

makes the music for one of the short pieces, "Borrowed Time".

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From such an international debut, he was invited by Fabien Prioville 

(La La La Human Steps; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; Fabien Prioville Dance Company) and Azusa Seyama (Ballet Austin; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; etc.) to compose soundtracks

especially for original spectacles (as is the case

with ´Alpha´, ´1250 Mb/s´ and ´The ZOOMOLOGISTS´).

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Otacílio developed / develops several partnerships around 

the world with choreographers and dancers such as, for instance,

the french Laetitia reboul and, exponent of Butoh, Tina Besnard;

the German Beljana Metje; the Italian ORNELLA DUFAY-MIRALLES.

Featured works:

Mort peut danser

Enxadachins

ballet du dieu mort

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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.

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To unveil
蜂蜜と鋼
for free,

simply click the following link.

Side by side with other professional activities that belong to the kaleidoscope that are the careers of Otacílio Melgaço (BR) and Laetitia Reboul (FR), both also begin to develop a partnership that hovers, in essence, through the unfolding universe of music and dance. In other words, the <<MELGALAŠEK duo>> is given birth.

Here & now, the first video art based on

this rhizomatic experience,

named SÈVES.

You are all invited to embrace it and, equally,

be embraced by Laetitia and Otacílio. Be welcome:
https://www.tiktok.com/@otaciliomelgacoofficial

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Go deeper through the following link: here.

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v i s u a l a r t s
 

Under the aegis of Mel-em-Branca Pub Co., on June 16 (Bloomsday), 2019,

the PhotoBook "ODYSSEUS HORIZONTALIZED", containing 145 drawings / paintings by Otacílio Melgaço, is released and made available for purchase. 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.

available on Amazon Books (Kindle Store) for appreciation and purchase or if you prefer, please contact the author / Mel-em-Branca Pub Co. directly through the following email: melgacianesque@gmail.com

See 24 pictures, here.

Read an interview with O.M. about such imagistic work, here.

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Released in October 2021, the 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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available on Amazon Books (Kindle Store) for appreciation and purchase or if you prefer, please contact the author / Mel-em-Branca Pub Co. directly through the following email: melgacianesque@gmail.com

Additional Information: Mel-em-branca pub co.

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U R I z e n

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<<URIZEN is a Graphic Novel by Otacílio Melgaço, a Brazilian man

of culture with forays into various areas of artistic expression

such as music, dramaturgy, photography, cinema, etc.
 

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.
 

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.

Made to be viewed more appropriately

on mobile devices, especially smartphones.
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Otacílio Melgaço engendered a Soundtrack to be listened while

reading URIZEN. 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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available on Amazon Books (Kindle Store), here.

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HY-BRASIL,
A PLACE OF SPEECH
FROM THE PHANTOM ISLAND
AN OTACÍLIO MELGAÇO
I N T E R
V I E W

There are 608 pages containing a long interview with the Brazilian multi-artist and two robust addendums that explore, still in Q&A format, enlightening (punctual) passages from Melgacian's career & work. Previously unpublished photographs are also included. here.

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W e b p h o n o d e s i g n

All O.M.´s sites are architected by him.

Below, some examples of creations

and adaptations of the Artist.
I - ophicina de sons

II - ultracledalismo

III - baal des 4´z´arts

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To discover a series of links related to O.M.'s career,

including thematic websites and social networks, see here.

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