Visual Art Culture of São Paulo and Beyond
Rotas Brasileiras founder and executive director Fernanda Feitosa discusses next week’s sophomore edition, which is a curated fair focused on Brazilian art exclusively, with a special interest in regional and indigenous work.
GDA is an artist-run gallery focused on experimental and conceptual practices by Brazilian artists, whose careers would be defined as not emerging, but not yet established.
The collective exhibition seeks to propose reflections on what is necessary to establish a relationship with the other, taking into account the barriers to be broken in order to accomplish things in communion.
In the mid-1980s Leirner chiseled a punk edge into the soul of Brazilian art. After a twenty-five-year absence from New York’s art scene, Leirner, one of the world’s contemporary exponents of conceptual art, is on view in a namesake solo exhibition. The quasi-retrospective displays historical pieces produced in her brilliant four-decade career. Here she also reminisces about her early years.
Brazil’s greatest sculptor of the first half of the twentieth century, Brecheret is the focus of “Victor Brecheret: Master of Forms” on display at São Paulo’s Centro Cultural Liceu de Artes e Ofícios (CCLAO) in partnership with the Instituto Brecheret. If you have been to São Paulo, you have most likely driven by Brecheret’s largest and most famous work, the “Monumento às Bandeiras” at Ibirapuera Park.
The show is organized around a photograph by the artist Rochelle Costi. “From the photo, Vermelho looked at the sky, at the clouds (…) to bring together creators from several generations, to become a constellation of affections with artists who passed through Vermelho in some way…”
Tavares is a Brazilian architect and urbanist based in Brazil. He teaches at UNB in Brasilia and is founder of Autonoma, an agency that works with the idea that if the city, if the territory, if the space is a right, architecture is a form of advocacy.
As a young artist, van Scherpenberg lived in a remote fluvial island in the Amazon. The highlights of these years are her visionary performances and interventions coloring the dark Amazonian waters with natural pigments she developed herself and then introducing the concept of land art to become a major reference in contemporary Latin American art.
“Among Us” at Pivô offers a remarkable survey of emerging Brazilian photography, spanning the decade that Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) has administered its ZUM grant program. With 250 works from twenty artists, the exhibition presents an overview of evolving social, environmental and political concerns over the last ten years, a particularly tumultuous time.
This solo exhibition focuses on Chile’s coup d’état along with his unique series of photographs of Chilean grand poet Pablo Neruda’s suspicious death in the same period.
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