Chorinho

According to José Ramos Tinhorão, a researcher and historian of Brazilian popular music, Chorinho emerged much more as a “way of playing” than as a musical genre. The homonymous series of works by Fabiana Preti shares the same interpretation: the manner of painting overrides any preconceived notion of genre.

In Chorinho, the brushstrokes are the central motif, repeating in variations of color, tone, depth, and opacity. The way they are arranged on the surfaces determines the movement through an expert gestural control. As in musical notation—whose structures offer much for reading the artist’s works—the aforementioned alternations act as syncopations, creating visual tension and contrast that provide rhythm and expressiveness, articulating precision and looseness within the compositions.

Gabriel Babolim