#mendeswoodDM

[alonebutsayingente]

Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, “Remember when we talked about meeting again” exhibition

#castielvitorinobrasileiro #installation #painting #mendeswooddm #Bantu #purple #exhibition

[plastolux]

mattbangser

On view September 15-November 28, 2020 @blumandpoe @mendeswooddm and @object_thing

will host a collaborative exhibition of contemporary art and design at the Eliot Noyes House in New Canaan, CT. By appointment booking forthcoming

#AtTheNoyesHouse

[artbookdap]

For feeling good about painting and for feeling good in general, a few images from 'Marina Perez Simão,' the first monograph on Sao Paulo–based painter. ⁠ ⁠ Published by @circlebooks & @mendeswooddm this stunning clothbound volume guides the reader through the artist's riotously colorful visual journeys as she blends abstraction and figuration in depictions of abstract landscapes, visions and memories. Here, alongside a wealth of color plates, writers @dhakadiana and @osmancanyerebakan highlight the various references in Simao’s painting, drawn from fields such as journalism, literature and philosophy, which help build the narratives that serve as the basis for her art.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #marinaperezsimao #saopaolopainting #circlebooks https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci-AddeMJMV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#marinaperezsimao #saopaolopainting #circlebooks

[moodboardmix]

Luss House, Ossining, Westchester County, New York, United States

Designed in 1955 by Gerald Luss,

“At the Luss House” An exhibition of art and design hosted in collaboration by galleries Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM, and Object & Thing.

#art #design #architecture #interiors #interiordesigng #mid century modern #mid century #gerald luss #1955 #exhibition #contenporary art #blum&poe #mendeswoodDM #object & things #kiva motnyk #eddie martinez #alma allen #marina perez-simao #johnny ortiz #kishio sugas #ossining #newyork #westchester county

[museutextil]

Miranda Fengyuan Zhang, Chinese, @da_dada_dadadadada

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“Abraça culturas e as une usando lãs de fazendas isoladas na China. Inspirada na avó, que em tempos difíceis desfiava peças para tricotar novas, misturando cores diferentes e criando formas estranhas com cores inesperadas. Miranda representa jardins semi-abstratos, paisagens meio figurativas, cheios de silhuetas de animais parecidos, rios e montanhas coloridas celebrando a mitologia da vida e da natureza que traduz e amplia o gesto. [...] As figuras se revelam a cada ponto, impulsionando suas representações. Em seguida, ela estica suas malhas em molduras, criando o nivelamento de uma tela. Um fio humilde torna-se matéria de cor pura e, assim, enobrece o fio usando a linguagem comum do tricô.”

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“She embraces cultures and ties them together using wools from isolated farms in China. Inspired by her grandmother, who during difficult times, unraveled jumpers to knit new ones, mixing different colors and created strange shapes with unexpected colors. Miranda represents semi-abstract gardens, half figurative landscapes, full of look-alike animal silhouettes, rivers and colorful mountains celebrating the mythology of life and nature that translates and magnifies the gesture. [...] Figures reveal themselves with each stitch, driving her representations. Then she stretches her knittings on frames, creating the flatness of a canvas. A humble thread becomes pure color matter and doing so, ennobling the thread using the common language of knitting.”

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Ref.: https://www.mirandafyzhang.net/ ; https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/miranda-fengyuan-zhang-art-220520 @itsnicethat ; https://contemporaryartdaily.com/2020/05/miranda-fengyuan-zhang-at-halsey-mckay/ @c.a.daily ; https://bit.ly/3886N5k @mendeswooddm

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#museutextil #mirandafengyuanzhang #textile #mendeswooddm #crochet #textileart #fiberartist #textileartist #artgallery #museum #woven

(em New York, New York)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHKbnwHH4ho/?igshid=i5ql0rqluatc

#museutextil #mirandafengyuanzhang #textile #mendeswooddm #crochet #textileart #fiberartist #textileartist #artgallery #museum #woven

[theamazingpoppingeyes]

Solange Pessoa at Fiac with Mendes Wood #solangepessoa #pessoa #art #artist #contemporaryart #sculptor #sculpture #bronze #fabric #feathers #hair #bird #sculptural #black #body #sexuality #female #femininity #limbs #dirt #nature #brazilian #fiac #fiac2017 #fiacweek #paris #mendeswood #mendeswooddm @pedromendessiruffo_ @m__aguilera @felipedmab @mendeswooddm

#hair #mendeswood #femininity #sculptural #artist #art #mendeswooddm #sculpture #paris #brazilian #solangepessoa #fiac #nature #fabric #sexuality #contemporaryart #dirt #feathers #sculptor #limbs #pessoa #fiacweek #bronze #bird #female #body #fiac2017 #black

[theegregore]

Felipe Meres at Mendes Wood DM in São Paulo

#felipe meres #mendes wood dm #felipemeres #mendeswooddm

[eroto-thanatos]

Adriano Costa, "Blessing," 2016. Gallery: Mendes Wood DM. #friezeartfair #friezeny2017 #adrianocosta #contemporaryart #mendeswooddm (at Frieze Fairs)

#mendeswooddm #friezeny2017 #adrianocosta #friezeartfair #contemporaryart

[amirshariat]

Hammering the show home with Antonio Oba a few days ago just ahead of his opening at Mendes Wood in New York #antoniooba #mendeswooddm #hammer #nails #newyork #mendeswood (at Mendes Wood DM)

#nails #mendeswooddm #mendeswood #hammer #antoniooba #newyork

[penelope-kupfer]

Paulo Nimer Pjota - Detail #paulonimerpjota #painting #sculpture #stickers #contemporaryart #mendeswooddm #saopaulo #brazil (at Mendes Wood DM)

#stickers #mendeswooddm #sculpture #saopaulo #contemporaryart #brazil #paulonimerpjota #painting

[wonderartgang-blog]

Thiago Martins de Melo, Tree of Blood and Fire Obliterating Pigs, 2013 | My imaginary Collection « HOT STUFF ». 🇬🇧 I wrote my first Master’s Degree thesis on this artist. I met Thiago in Rio de Janeiro while I was doing research about the presence of religious syncretism in Brazilian Contemporary Art when I first discovered his work…. Martins de Melo’s practice is situated in a revisionary tense: it refers to cultural memory via a medium endowed with historicity, i.e. painting, and contemporaneously reinvents historical characters, culturally diverse populations and Brazil’s spiritual, peasant, mythical, indigenous and African entities.  ______________________ Represented by @mendeswooddm Gallery. 🇫🇷 J’ai écrit mon premier mémoire en Master d’Histoire de l’Art sur cet artiste. J’ai rencontré Thiago à Rio de Janeiro lorsque je faisais des recherches sur la présence de syncrétisme religieux dans l’Art Contemporain du Brésil. C’est là que j’ai découvert son travail. Son art porte un regard de “révision” sur l’histoire du pays. Les références sont multiples de la mémoire culturelle à la valeur historique du médium de la peinture. Ses thèmes sont contemporains mais font écho à l’histoire ou réinvente les personnages aux cultures diverses des croyances spirituelles présentes au Brésil: du paysan à l’indigène et à l’esclave en passant par les entités divines d’Afrique. ______________________ (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzL8b13jilj/?igshid=1whu761vfncjx

[andraskiraly]

Adriano Costa - Philosophy of the World #adrianocosta @mendeswooddm #brussels https://www.instagram.com/p/CcAiWqMoAMe/?utm_medium=tumblr

#adrianocosta #brussels

[blittman]

#matthewlutzkinoy @mendeswooddm @sp_arte

#matthewlutzkinoy

[micaramel]

Artist: Luiz Roque

Venue: PIVÔ, São Paulo

Exhibition Title: República

Date: March 21 – May 9, 2020

Curated By: Fernanda Brenner

Click here to view slideshow



  Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Video:



Luiz Roque, Zero (excerpt), 2019, 00:42

  Images courtesy of PIVÔ, São Paulo. Photos by Everton Ballardin.

Press Release:

República, by Luiz Roque, presents part of the artist’s production, carried out in the last 10 years. Curated by Fernanda Brenner, the exhibition will show six works on video, two of them never seen in Brazil: Zero (2019) and the specially commissioned República (2020).

Roque is interested in science fiction as a means of reflecting on geopolitical, social and historical issues and to speculate on possible futures. Desire is an important vector of the artist’s production. His works have the duration and the rhythm of trailers or video clips and can be presented both at the art gallery or the movie theatre. Particularly interested in the legacy of modernism, Roque relates it to the body in movement and transformation and to pop culture’s imagery, using the cinematographic language to build narratives and visual essays in a suspended time. His characters inhabit post-apocalyptic and dystopian scenarios to where the artist brings elements from the history of art and architecture.

The work that lends its title to the exhibition was commissioned for the project in partnership with the Passerelle Center d’Art Contemporain, in Brest, France. República closes the Pharmacopeia trilogy, constituted by Ano Branco (2013), present in the show, and Heaven (2016). In this series, Roque explores the human body as a territory of disputes and political transformations. República is a kind of documentary captured on video and Super-8, narrated by the performer Marcinha do Corintho, diva of the transvestite shows, active since the 1980s. The film is also a tribute to the central neighbourhood of São Paulo, where it is located the Copan building, in which Roque has lived for twelve years, and its emblematic square, a historic spot for many sex workers. The issue of sexual migration is at the core of the narrative and the circular visualization of the film. Roque addresses characteristic aspects of the “pharmacopornographic” society, according to the term coined by Paul B. Preciado. The transgender feminist philosopher is one of the characters in the film that begins his trilogy: Ano Branco (White Year) starts from a lecture by Preciado to build a fictional plot set in the year 2031. The film raises the discussion about bioethics and the State’s interference on bodies as a form of political and social control.

The artist will also present the film Zero (2019), made during an artistic residency in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. In Zero, a lonely dog flies over the desert in a private jet. The horizon is interrupted only by an oasis-like skyline of futuristic high rises. The contrast between the dust of the desert, the shining and spotless glass of the apparently uninhabited buildings, and the animal adrift – perhaps the last living creature on earth – is a disturbing warning of the consequences of political and economic decisions made over the past century. The lack of human presence in the film seems to insinuate that our species has set a course towards a new ‘zero’, that can either be a total revaluation or even extinction.

Republica was suspended a few days before the opening, but the film Zero is now being played continuously in Pivô’s storefront, every day, from 2 pm to 4 am. It is a prologue to the exhibition, while the institution remains closed to the public.

The production of República is a partnership with the Passerelle Center d’Art Contemporain ��� the French institution opened a previous version of the exhibition on February 7. Pivô appreciates the generous support of Virginia and Daniel Weinberg in making this project possible.

About the artist

Luiz Roque (Cachoeira do Sul, 1979) lives and works in São Paulo. His production focuses on the moving image and also extends to photography and sculpture. Recent individual exhibitions include República (CAC Passerelle, Brest, 2020), Screen Series (New Museum, New York, 2020), Televisão (MAC, Niterói, 2018), HEAVEN (Tramway, Glasgow, 2017), The Modern Years (MendesWoodDM, Bruxelas, 2017) and Ancestral (CCSP, São Paulo (2016). His works have been included in numerous group exhibitions such as 1st Riga (Letônia, 2018), Avenida Paulista (MASP, São Paulo, 2017), 32 São Paulo Biennial (2016), Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers (MoMA PS1, Nova York, 2016), The Violet Crab (DRAF, Londres, 2015), The Brancusi Effect, (Kunsthalle, Viena, 2014) e Medos Modernos (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, 2014).

About the curator

Fernanda Brenner is a curator and writer based in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the founding director of Pivô, a non-profit art space in São Paulo operating since 2012. Recent projects include group show A Burrice dos Homens (2019) Bergamin Gomide Gallery, São Paulo, Residents Section Art Dubai, UAE (2019), group shows Neither (2017), Mendes Wood DM, Brussels and co-curation of Nightfall (2018) at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels and Black Box (2018) at Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre. She is a contributing editor for Frieze Magazine and her writings featured in a number of publications and catalogues, such as Artreview, Mousse, Cahiers d’Art, Terremoto, and The Exhibitionist, where she is part of the editorial board. Brenner also works as an art adviser for Kadist.

  Link: Luiz Roque at PIVÔ

from Contemporary Art Daily https://bit.ly/2YOy34g

#micaramel

[theamazingpoppingeyes]

Solange Pessoa at Fiac with Mendes Wood #solangepessoa #pessoa #art #artist #contemporaryart #sculptor #sculpture #bronze #sculptural #black #female #body #inside #outside #sexuality #femalility #limbs #nature #brazilian #fiac #fiac2017 #fiacweek #paris #mendeswood #mendeswooddm @pedromendessiruffo_ @felipedmab @mendeswooddm

#sculptural #sculpture #inside #body #female #limbs #artist #bronze #mendeswooddm #femalility #paris #pessoa #black #fiac2017 #fiac #sculptor #art #outside #nature #contemporaryart #mendeswood #brazilian #fiacweek #sexuality #solangepessoa

[blairab]

👉 #PatriciaLeite’s paintings have unexpected light in person @mendeswooddm (at Mendes Wood DM) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bowxk0bFDWu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18132ff0yah9o

#patricialeite