Cultural Exchange: Selections From the MCA Chicago Are on Display at MASP
The collaboration between the two museums juxtaposes rare works from both collections, and highlights visual rhymes displayed in Lina Bo Bardi’s iconic glass easels.
Ancient History: English Artist Dan Coopey Elevates Old World Basketry into High Art
Coopey braids ancestral knowhow with a contemporary narrative resulting in abstract, organic shapes that avoid any explicit reference to the traditional craft.
The Beauty of Imperfection: Japanese Ceramicist Kimi Nii Brings a Zen Outlook to Artmaking
Nii’s quiet simplicity bestows her pieces with tactile and visual qualities of subtle beauty, atmosphere and character.
The Scale of Common Things: Conceptual Giant Cildo Meireles Mounts Impressive Survey
The universal appeal of “Entrevendo” (Glimpsing) makes for an inspirational, vigorous retrospective that relates to young and old.
Esthetic Hell: Maciej Babinski Discusses Electrifyingly Tense New Illustrations
The intense observation of human nature in the watercolors conveys a dark side of the artist countered by an explosion of insight, tenderness, anxiety and eroticism.
Conscious Amateur: A Retrospective of Carlos Moreira Shows the Poetics of the Street
He was out in the street and beginning to establish a relation with what was going on around him, while creating beautiful, fast-tempo compositions.
Spontaneous Poetics: Marepe Explains Why Bahia is the Perfect Place for Making Art
His spontaneous conceptual poetics boasts universal appeal with common, everyday things brilliantly transformed.
Self-Assured and Shocking: A New Exhibition Takes on the Legacy of Flávio de Carvalho
Now he is hailed for his vision, but in his days Flávio de Carvalho was slashed by conservative society, the clergy and the majority of art critics.
Redrafting the Narrative of Painting: Daniel Senise Delves Into Photography in Two New Exhibitions
In two solo exhibitions this fall, Daniel Denise, the artist known for redrafting the narrative of painting now substitutes the canvas for photographic images.
Ascânio MMM and the New Uses
In the sensitive materiality of Ascânio’s work, there is a secret encounter between the rigidity of geometrical calculus and scientific coldness.
No Place for Pastels: Photographer Luiz Braga Captures the Colors of the Amazon
Luiz Braga’s photos thrive on the rich tones and psychological textures of the ribeirinhos and the river water of the regal region he loves.
Restless Rhapsody: Inside the Fluid Landscapes of Janaina Tschäpe
For those who have followed her almost three decade trajectory, the fluid lexicon from the very beginning of her career in photographs and videos can still be noticed.
Beyond Categorization: The Provocative Beauty of Hudinilson Jr.
Hudinilson Jr., for years an outcast of the art market, is in a second post-mortem solo exhibition, occupying the three floors of Galeria Jaqueline Martins with 140 transgressive works.
Enraptured by Historical Detail: Colombian Artist Adriana Duque Captures the Spanish Renaissance in New Photo Series
Enraptured by historical images, childhood beauty and digital technology, Duque’s minutely-detailed, photo-painterly portraits are every bit her own carefully-researched creations.
Galeria Utópica Founder Pablo Di Giulio on Building a Collection
Pablo Di Giulio, one of Brazil’s top experts in vintage photographs and the founder of Galeria Utópica in São Paulo’s Vila Madalena artsy neighborhood, has participated in SP-Foto since its inception.
Capturing Elegance: Mario Cohen on Opening Latin America’s First Fine Art Photo Gallery
Fascinated by photos that tell a story, Cohen’s selections for the fair were united by the theme of elegance.
Radical Art Provocateur: Dora Longo Bahia’s New Exhibition Makes Connections Between Politics, Violence and Art
This radical art provocateur crochets concepts while shedding light on bruising events related to violence, sex and death.
Resisting the Silence of Forgetting: A Review of The Edge of Things at MSU Broad
Art has the capacity to render visible that which certain political powers are determined to erase. The legacies of politically and socially engaged art within the context of contemporary Latin […]
Permanent Collection: Ricardo Resende on the Vast Art Holdings of FAMA
A vast new exhibition called “Utopia” displays 160 contemporary works, precisely ten percent of the impressive art collection amassed during the last decade.
A Private Passion Made Public: João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz Shares His Vast Collection
Housed in a private institution that opened to the public in 2011, IFF, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, one of Brazil’s finest collections of contemporary art.
Silence, Space and Time: Luiz Paulo Baravelli on the Ingredients of His Art Practice
Silence, space and time are crucial for the seventy-seven-year-old painter, draughtsman, sculptor, engraver, art teacher and newspaper chronicler, who dropped out of architecture, though it remains the basis of his oeuvre.
