Sao Paulo Brazil
Marina Caverzan’s first solo show at Janaina Torres Galeria invites the public to cross borders and access new forms of perception. Curated by Ana Roman and with the special participation of Artur Lescher, the show explores the intersection between spirituality, abstraction and contemporary culture.
The solo exhibition by Liene Bosquê, a Brazilian artist based in the United States, brings to the country works produced in several cities around the world, based on the architectural heritage of each location, in investigations into memory, belonging and immigration. The show, which celebrates the artist’s 20-year career, features more than 50 items in a wide range of formats and materials such as textile installations, monotypes with rust, cyanotypes, ceramics, fabric and paper sculpture, site specific, among others.
The sea of the Brazilian Northeast, dreamlike and idealized, in paintings with subtle personal and social connotations, drives the research in Pra Vela Não Se Apagar [So the candle won’t fade], the first solo show Guilherme Santos da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, 1987) at Janaina Torres Galeria, curated by Alexandre Araujo Bispo.
The continuity of diverse forms of life put on hold by contemporary tension and vertigo is the main theme of Entities, an exhibition that presents an overview of Janaina Torres Galeria’s curatorial proposal for 2024. In four exhibition sections, the group show features works that, based on their formal and research affinities, serve as a gateway to plurality, based on their very condition of existence.
A living, pulsating dialog that emerges from the paintings and drawings of three young artists – an abyssal, feminine look at vertiginous affection, where the act of creation is a way of accounting for the intensity and excess they experience in the face of the vibrating nature of the world.
Three artists, who follow instigating and unique poetics, cross paths at a certain point in time and space, based on a common element: the desire for nature and the will to understand it, knowing that there is no possible division between us and it. This is Junction, a group show of works by Luciana Magno, Paula Juchem and Pedro David, curated by Agnaldo Farias.
Osvaldo Carvalho explores dissymmetries in painting – such as the use of distorted perspectives, “wrong” colors and disproportionate divisions – in order to warn of profound imbalances in the social and environmental spheres.
Between the oneiric and the real, the visible and the hidden, color is a central element in Pablo Ferretti’s painting. In his canvases, nothing is evident and everything is diffuse, sometimes something is drawn before our eyes, sometimes it fades away.
Gabriel Pitan Garcia’s first solo show, Sopro (Breath) features large drawings made of various materials, such as silk, aluminum, and cardboard, and distinguished by a monochromatic palette that emphasizes gray. Spirals, tornadoes and whirlpools reveal a voracious gesturality recurrent in the work
Paula Juchem expands the possibilities of ceramics in a unique visual repertoire at once playful and intriguing, marked by the organicity of its forms, which evoke traces of animals, fungi and bacteria, among other living beings that dwell on Earth in all its plurality.
In Territory of Illusions, Sandra Mazzini expands her pictorial vocabulary, adding architectural elements to the lush flora already characteristic of her visual poetics. “These are apparently abandoned places, where there is no human presence, and which have been taken over by nature,” explains the artist, who flirts with the real and the imaginary in a work that touches us beyond the visible, incorporating sounds, sensations and even repulsions into the visual experience.
An expert galaxy builder, Feco Hamburger expands his poetic universe in Eclipse, a solo exhibition in which he reaffirms his interest in exploring the limits of the photographic language, creating worlds instead of reproducing them.
Flows Full of Desire features the most instigating – and intriguing – artist of his generation, the protagonist of a story characterised by compulsive production and a tragic end, disguised in unattainable freedom. The brief and compelling story of Pedro Moraleida (1977-1999) can be seen in a body of work full of singularity, coherence, vigor and the courage to face the apathy he saw as dominant around him.
More than a narrow panorama of Andrey Guaianá Zignnatto’s career, Wild land: Co Yby Ore Retama is a celebration of memories and of new paths. Between 2021 and 2022, the Co Yby Ore Retama project occupied cultural spaces in São Paulo. History and ancestry spread and sowed the seeds of art and reflection in a metropolis that constantly erases its original narratives.
Polygons, Porticos, Matter and Desire proposes a revisiting of the Constructivist heritage in Latin America, an artistic thought that peaked in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s and continues to reverberate in various contemporary productions. Curated by Cadu Gonçalves, the exhibition also marks a collaboration between Gisela Gueiros, Jaime Portas Vilaseca and Janaina Torres, who live in New York, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo respectively.
With work indicative of the vigor and plurality of contemporary Brazilian video art production, the group show NUCLEO | video art marks the launch of the homonymous, permanent project, bringing together artists represented by the gallery who work with this language, guest artists, curators, collectors, and video art lovers.
In the second phase of the show, Kika Levy strains the boundaries between printmaking, drawing and object, in a two-dimensional reading of stones, foliage, and landscapes. Os Manus, in turn, recreate flowers and insects into sculptures and objects, where the exhibition space that becomes a cocoon.
Show held in two moments, Of The Nature of Things brings into contact affinities and aesthetic dialogues. In the exhibition opening, Paula Juchem and Andrey Zignnatto build poetics from clay and ceramics, in supports such as sculpture (Paula) and photography (Zignnatto), exploring “the expressive power of the ceramic material and its millenary cultural essence, witness of human trajectory”
A sound and visual artist, Ricardo Siri unites matter and expressiveness in sculptures, assemblages and a habitable nest – made of tree branches, clay and sound – where the gestures and records of living and making art echo, in consonance and tension with the moment of art and the world today. Also shown on a virtual interactive platform, Organismo establishes a “cosmic” connection with the universe and an immediate relationship with the viewer.
In Refurbishment: Building Site, Andrey Zignnatto dives into his roots and elects the brick as an object mediating the experience of the human with culture and the world, subverting the original conditions and uses of this constructive element, opening paths for the questioning of this relationship.
To tell the story of a lifetime from the objects accumulated over the years is the idea behind Daniel Jablonski’s The Things. As Jablonski exhaustively catalogs all of his disused belongings, arbitrarily accumulated over the years, he logs and makes public almost all of his personal objects, transforming them into powerful narrative supports and forcing memory in radically unforeseen directions.
Kika Levy starts from nature – leaves of ferns, embaúbas and macuqueiros, collected during walks through the remains of the Atlantic Forest in São Paulo – to reinvigorate monotype, an ancient printing technique.
In her first solo show, Sandra Mazzini explores landscape, a theme dear to art history, in scenes of lush nature and familiar bucolic memories. By reconfiguring forests, plantations and foliage by means of the grid, her trademark, Sandra creates a kind of weft that changes the “real”.
For a year and a half, Kitty Paranaguá climbed the hills of Rio de Janeiro to record the public urban works carried out for the occasion of Rio de Janeiro’s 450th anniversary. She entered the dwellers’ homes in the communities to get better views of the city from their windows. As she projected what she saw down below, inside the houses, and making fresh records, she revealed much more: people, stories and memory, creating a camera obscura from the relationship between, or dissolution of, exterior and interior, in images of high aesthetic and emotional impact.
Heleno Bernardi traverses different languages, from abstract expressionism and pop to installation and video, so as to reinvent in his art the urban milieu and ways of using the city. As in a site-specific construction, the artist creates a polyphony with architectural and sound influences, displacements, relations of time and space and the imaginary presence of individuals in this context.
Capturing the tensions and developments in the production of ten artists, at a time of creative transition, animates the group show Between Pages, an exciting combination of works by Daniel Jablonski, Daniel Nogueira de Lima, Gabriel Pitan Garcia, Jordi Burch, Kika Levy, Marcia Thompson, Marco Maria Zanin (guest), Marcus André, Renata Basile and Sandra Mazzini.
Janaina Torres Galeria’s inaugural exhibition, When I Realized It Was Dawn – Photographs by Feco Hamburger, curated by Diógenes Moura, takes you on a delicate visual journey through a galaxy of references that range from the romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich to Bowie’s Major Tom. Stone and water, mist and stars, light and shadows are all components of an exploratory photography that moves between the dreamlike and the documentary.
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