Renam Canzi is a Brazilian artist and architect, born in 1988 in Rio Grande do Sul, son of merchants. He had been in elementary school when he attended the home of his teacher of visual arts, who took a liking to foley his art books. He later entered the art-guided college, specializing in a variety of courses: drawing, wood carving, ceramics, metal and glass, as well as 4D art, performance, video and artistic installations in the USA. At the end of college, he began his art company the Strategic Cocoon, where his production ranges from large-scale murals to performance and video. As an artist, he explores human nature with all its facets. The body, recurrent theme in most of its works, is naked of modesty when presenting itself. Naked, deconstructive bodies are visualized in all their glory with subjective interpretations of what they want to show. His creations are raw, uncharacteristic or unwarranted creatures to be as they are. His presentation is honest, the abstract concept that goes beyond the simple dimension of the beautiful, which is widely regarded as the aesthetic standard of beauty, considering that its mission as an artist is to question the possibilities between the real and the imaginary, breaking down barriers and helping to create a new understanding of what it is to be an individual.
"I believe that from the beautiful to the interesting there is an absurd difference. Sometimes these concepts can talk. I have seen several beautiful ones that aesthetically appeal to me as well, but I have more interest in what can cause a small break, a fissure in this wall of the pattern. "
"Art for me is inevitable. Through art I know who I am and find myself in my own ideas. "
Renam Canzi has great inspirations in Fridah Kahlo, Joel-Peter Witkin, Oliver de Sagazan, much more than by the technique used, but by the way they transcended his truths in his works. For Renam no one is totally self-taught, because even without some specific training, we go throughout our lives consuming "ways to do" all the time with people from different areas and with that we apply what is convenient. In his creative process he relies on various things around him and experimental activities. His view that all art is political, because it presents himself in a way that instigates a reaction in which he observes it, his choice and insistence on representation is nothing more than a public position as an artist of our time, observing and representing the pains, the sufferings and beauties of what is happening within the LGBT militancy. "It is impossible to close your eyes to what is going on around you. Your narratives can not be reduced to the opinion of the other, but also to feel and to be defined by your own rules. " Thus, from these ramblings and questionings of what it is to be queer, he often explores the subject explicitly and intentionally, questioning the status quo of art and promoting reactions in the public for a reflection on the subject.
Renam Canzi participated in several exhibitions, presenting himself also with installations in several cities of Brazil and the USA and Spain. Recently in March 2019 he released his first book Hybrid: Body, Art and Space
"Art has the role of addressing, questioning issues and situations that need to be spoken in our society context and the artist is fundamental to address issues beyond the beautiful. My interest is in the main interlocutor of our society, the human, in particular your own body, the casing that allows us to exist and interact with others. "
"I think what's interesting is getting out of reality. I do not even know if it's reality, but get out of the building. Because we understand ourselves as people in a certain way, as people who seem in a way, who behave in a specific way, but sometimes inside feels very different. So I feel that sometimes the chromatic distortion of my works, or even the shape of layers that I choose, realism for example, from black to dark gray to medium gray to light gray to white, are variations of a reality. It all helps us to show how we are feeling at certain times because I can often feel that my colors or my personality are contrary to what people expect me to do. So I think all this playfulness helps give a relationship of sincerity, how I see myself and represent myself. " Excerpt from his book Hybrid - body, art and space
Not all his art is political, but it is what he pretends to be. From the experiences lived in his years devoted to art, he found his voice precisely by highlighting what still seeks space;
"I want to continue to politicize through my work the subjects I want to talk about, always taking care to have ownership of what I deconstruct. It is important not to empty the signs of an iconography just by the will to work with some themes, especially those that deal with people and their cultures. You have to take care of the issue of appropriation, but you have to understand how far I can go without feeling uncomfortable and without bothering anyone. "