Light Producer: Iván Navarro and the Politics of Art
The month opened with two great losses for Brazilian art, the deaths of Antonio Dias, seventy-four years old, in Rio de Janeiro, and Mario Cravo Junior, ninety-five years old, in […]
Collective Impulses: How Macaparana’s acquisitions informed his art
At Lasar Segall Museum’s modernist compound in São Paulo,Artist Macaparana is exhibiting eighteen large minimalist geometric works on paper at “Afinidades” (Affinities). The solo show, with a comprehensive trilingual catalog […]
Stealing Beauty: “Transformers” at auroras considers the art of image appropriation
In São Paulo’s leafy neighborhood of Cidade Jardim, the 1950s modernist architecture of auroras houses “Transformers,” an irreverent collective show that harbors eleven works and videos tackling imagery appropriation. The […]
Painting Lives: Fabio Miguez’s “Short Cuts” to artistic greatness
Galeria Nara Roesler shows forty-five small-format paintings by ex-Casa 7 artist Fabio Miguez, part of an ongoing series started in 2010 dubbed “Atalhos” (Short Cuts). “Short Cuts” also doubles as […]
Quotidian Chronicles: Lucas Dupin thrives in the ordinary, at Galeria Lume
”Rés do Chão” (On the Ground) at São Paulo’s Galeria Lume is the title of the first solo show of multimedia artist Lucas Dupin who officially started in the arts […]
“Rhodislandia Revisited: A new art space in Rio opens with an Oiticica installation
Rio de Janeiro has a new and inclusive space for the arts, OM art, in the leafy area of the Botanical Gardens next to the Jockey Club with the view […]
Geometric Transformations: A Conversation with Luiz Hermano about his “Trapézio”
Artist Luiz Hermano’s “Trapézio,” a large installation of floating steel sculptures at São Paulo’s SESC Santo Amaro, is based on fifty-three different compositions of a sole geometric figure, the trapezoid, […]
The Poet’s Finale: A conversation with Leonel Kaz about Ferreira Gullar’s last works
The final oeuvre of poet Ferreira Gullar (1930-2016), the author of the “Manifesto Neoconcreto” (1959) that enraged academics but was hailed by forward-thinking visual artists, is on show in São […]
Creative Science: Guto Lacaz brings his art lab to Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri
Through June and July Guto Lacaz shows twenty works from 1995-2018 at Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri in the Jardins while he just finished having fifteen panels exhibited the whole month of […]
Brazil’s Greatest Artist? Thiago Gomide Makes the Case for Mira Schendel
The traveling gallery exhibition, originally from New York’s Hauser & Wirth, “Mira Schendel. Sarrafos and Black and White Works,” organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément, is a small black-and-white gem in collaboration […]
