Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: WANESSA RAYZZA LOYO DA FONSECA MARINHO VANDERLEI

DAIBERTIAN VISUAL ESSAY: the multiple look at Grande Sertão: veredas, by Guimarães Rosa

Arlindo Daibert; visual essay; Grande Sertão: Veredas; Guimarães
Rosa; Imagens do Grande Sertão

This work aims to discuss the intersemiotic relationship between Imagens do Grande
Sertão, by Arlindo Daibert, and the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas by João
Guimarães Rosa. In his creations, the artist from Juiz de Fora did not intend to
create an illustration of the literary text, but rather to undertake a “conceptual
investigation” (PONTUAL, 1987) of the cultural context of the Rosian universe, since
he viewed drawing as a form of reasoning (GUIMARÃES, 1998). Taking this premise
into account, this thesis argues that Daibert constructed a visual essay. Its definition
and specific characteristics will be the subject of investigation through the following
conceptual elements: collage, the use of verbal discourse as a constituent of his
work, labyrinthine structure, play of light and shadow, and, especially, mise en
abyme, a resource that can be found in Rosa's work itself when we observe the
numerous ways stories unfold (DRUMOND, 2018). By using these tales as a starting
point, the visual artist creates a complex play of mirrors (DÄLLENBACH, 1977; ECO,
1989), recovering and reconstructing the pictorial markers characteristic of Rosa
(LOUVEL, 2006; 2012), which were extensively commented upon in his Caderno de
Escritos (DAIBERT, 1995), exploring both the central characters of GS:V and the
secondary ones, as well as Rosa's cultural and philosophical influences in his visual
compositions (NOGUEIRA, 2006).