Editorial
Picks
Curators and artists recommend artworks at the 18th SP–Arte
SP–Arte
9 Apr 2022, 3:21 pm
An art fair’s greatest strength lies in bringing together, for a few days and in the same environment, all the actors in the arts circuit: gallerists, artists, curators, academics, assemblers, cultural producers, collectors etc. These Picks are about this!
The curators Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, from the 34th Bienal de São Paulo and from the Brazilian representation at the 59th Biennale di Venezia, and Paulo Miyada, from Instituto Tomie Ohtake and Centre Pompidou, and the artist Lenora de Barros, which will be at the general exhibition at Venice Biennale, highlight works exhibited at the 18th SP–Arte that have caught their attention: a novelty they have seen for the first time and an artwork or artist they already knew about and saw again here.
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Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, curator
A novelty: Caroline Rycca Lee (HOA Galeria)
As a work he has known at SP–Arte, Crivelli Visconti highlighted the triptych MOON – JEN – TAWEI (2019–2021), from Caroline Rycca Lee, at HOA, Brazil’s first gallery founded by a black person, with a program of artists that develop decolonial researches. Caroline Rycca Lee’s triptych is composed of ceramics’ masks made from molds of their family: mother, grandfather and father.
"MOON – JEN – TAWEI" (2017–2021), Caroline Rycca Lee (Credits: Divulgação SP–Arte)
A reunion: Jonathas de Andrade (Nara Roesler)
“As work from an artist I know well, I have to mention A batalha de todo dia de Dona Severina, de Tejucupapo (2022), from Jonathas de Andrade (1982, Maceió, Brazil). It’s the artist I have invited to occupy the Brazilian Pavilion at this year’s Biennale, and this series is the starting point of the exhibition he will present.”
"A batalha do todo dia de Dona Severina, de Tejucupapo", 2022, Jonathas de Andrade (Credits: Divulgação SP–Arte)
Paulo Miyada, curator
A novelty: Manuel Messias (Danielian Galeria)
“It was a thrill to see for the first time live the engravings of Manuel Messias dos Santos (1945, Aracaju, Brazil – 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), whose sharp presence is testimonial of how big the gaps in Brazilian’s art memory are. Messias has catalyzed the fury and inventiveness in a single gesture, creating a fundamental chapter in the history of a country of structural violences that, every once in a while, show their most perverse face.”
"Candomblé" and "Tho its… Wang / Tua é a Forma", Manuel Messias (Credits: Divulgação SP–Arte)
A reunion: Maria Lira Marques (AM Galeria de Arte e Gomide&Co)
“It’s always good to see Maria Lira, tellurian artist in the original sense, who makes of colours of the earth, its rocks and ancestral dreams the raw material to mold characters of a cosmogony.”
Works by Maria Lira Marques at AM Galeria
Lenora de Barros, artist
A novelty: Anitta Boa Vida (Radar SP–Arte – Hora grande exhibition)
To the artist Lenora de Barros, whose work will be exhibited at the 59th Venice Biennale in the main show Milk of Dreams, and is also at SP–Arte with No país da língua grande, dai carne a quem quer carne, the initiative to show new artists was great. The small piece Trabalhadoras do mundo, uni-vas, by Anitta Boa Vida, immediately captured her attention when she walked into the exhibition Hora grande. Anitta Boa Vida (1985, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a former student of EAV Parque Lage and is currently studying Visual Arts at UERJ. In 2017, she was given a scholarship by EAV Parque Lage and Goethe Institut for Documenta 14 with the project Woman is the South of the World.
A reunion: Gokula Stoffel (Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel)
The mix between painting and tapestry in Gokula Stoffel (1988, Porto Alegre, Brazil), with the work Continua a ser, which’s exhibited at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel’s booth, is what inspires Lenora. Stoffel’s paintings incorporate traditional techniques and materials, but also various supports present in daily life – fabrics, glass, wool, aluminum foils, amongst many others – in the creation of traslucent and reflexive surfaces that capture a continuous flow of distinct nature images: pictures, landscapes, collages and abstract textures. The human presence is visible in the outlined forms of the body, hair strands, textile webs and scrawls that occupy significant portions of the compositions.
"Continua a ser" (2022), Gokula Stoeffel (Credits: Divulgação SP–Arte)
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