You sir, drop in front of me an quick idea and I will track it throghout of all bushes, amem!
João Guimarães Rosa, "Grande Sertão: Veredas"
As part of the Roseane week program, in 2005, in Cordisburgo, the artists Liliane Dardot made an artwork called "Throughout of every bushes, amém!". The work consisted in the transcription in cursive caligraphy, in an apmplified scale, using white sand on earth floor, the text fragment by Guimarães Rosa “No Urubuquaquá, no Pinhém”, (“Corpo de Baile”). It was a list of trees, bushes, burs, grass, vines and backcountry herbs. The artwork was made with the help of a group of young people in the town, in an open area near to the House Museum Guimarães Rosa, a space of about 430 square meters. The list, which apears in the "Cara de Bronze" tale as an footnote, offers an possible syntesis of the natural and human backcountry landscape, and it might be a way of proximity to the Guimarães Rosa's work.
In 2006, the Museu Mineiro reiterates its tribute to Guimarães Rosa, on the occasion of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 1st edition of "Grande Sertão: Veredas", also of "Corpo de Baile". Liliane Dardot, using sand as a writing instrument, occupied the entire Sessions Room of the Museu Mineiro. This large drawing-writing, created on a slightly elevated black plane, was covered not only visually, but also physically by the public, providing a reading of a completely different nature from the usual reading of the printed text.
