Configuring a New Reality: Sculptor Artur Lescher on his new retrospective Pina Estação, in the Pinacoteca complex at São Paulo’s old center, has the retrospective of sculptor Artur Lescher “Suspensão” (Suspension) occupying all three rooms of the fourth floor of the early-twentieth-century neoclassical building. On view are over one-hundred-and-twenty pieces spanning three decades. In February, the artist, who would rather be called a builder and whose work became noticed in the…
Artist of the Suture: How Rosana Paulino became the first woman of color with a retrospective at the Pinacoteca São Paulo’s Pinacoteca brings the retrospective “Rosana Paulino: A Costura da Memória” (The Sewing of Memory), the artist’s largest solo show staged in a museum. The event celebrates Paulino’s twenty-five-year career focused on shedding light on the long-oppressed role of Afro-Brazilian women through the esthetic experience of her installations, engravings, drawings, sculptures and collages. A host of one-hundred-and-forty thought-provoking artworks…
