Through The Sunset of Hope: Daniel Lannes and His “Paradises”
Lannes indulges in his idiosyncratic figurative delirium, kindled by sex, power and nostalgia, layered with phantasmagorical outbursts of exuberant abstraction so characteristically his.
Visual Art Culture of São Paulo and Beyond
at by Cynthia Garcia
Lannes indulges in his idiosyncratic figurative delirium, kindled by sex, power and nostalgia, layered with phantasmagorical outbursts of exuberant abstraction so characteristically his.
at by Beto Shwafaty
De Jesus evokes in his poetics the ravine and riverside culture, of fishermen, of scowls (carrancas), of boats and bucolic landscapes, leading to the development of an artistic practice in which memory, personal history and social elements materialize between photographs, drawings, poetry and objects.
at by Cynthia Garcia
Meddling with all sorts of social groups and situations, Cidade grew up experiencing the raw playground of intense urban living. São Paulo runs in the veins and in the art of Marcelo Cidade.
at by Brian Hieggelke
The woodworks in Garcia’s “Escultura cega” (“Blind Sculpture”) collectively evoke a forest stricken with a fatal malady, one that kills the trees but leaves some of their branches or trunks intact.
at by Beto Shwafaty
The play with scale and materials are one of the main axes with which the artist articulates a large part of his production, sometimes relating them to the exhibition’s context and place, other times creating a counterpoint to it.
at by Beto Shwafaty
A celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Franco Terranova, art dealer and founder of the Petite Galerie. Having been active from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1980s, Terranova and Petite became an essential personality and context in supporting the new artistic movements that emerged on the Brazilian scene.
at by Cynthia Garcia
Melo’s “oeuvre portrays violence, beauty and destruction, as well as the Amazonian forest’s sublime vastness with its irreplaceable, profound, silent existence.”
at by Beto Shwafaty
Alves’ new exhibition focuses on aspects related to the environment, ecological activism and new ways of understanding nature in relation to social processes.
at by Cynthia Garcia
“His large canvases are fields of vibration of light where color is expanded…, creating an emotional space, an atmosphere that involves the spectator with a poetic emotion.”
at by Cynthia Garcia
In March, Vik Muniz launched a new series, “Dinheiro Vivo” (Live Cash), currently on display at São Paulo’s Galeria Nara Roesler. However, during the recent 2023 edition of SP-Arte fair, what really surprised the art market was the launch of his other series. Comprising seven works and titled “GIBI,”an artistic trompe l’oeil rendering of ubiquitous Walt Disney characters—yeah, Goofy, Mickey, Donald Duck, et al.
Copyright Newcity Communications, Inc. © 2023