BRISA
With Ana Claudia Almeida, Elvis Almeida, Flora Rebollo, Guilherme Ginane, Marcelo Pacheco, Matheus Chiaratti, Thomáz Rosa and Yasmin Guimarães
On view at Quadra São Paulo, 2205 rua Oscar Freire, São Paulo, Brazil, from June 7th until July 2nd as part of SP Arte 2021
Winds from the North, the South, the East and the West, cold and violent winds, storms, subtle or warm and humid winds that form storms or clouds. Tempests, gusts of wind or soft breezes; winds of numerous names and intensities, constancy or periodicity. Winds that blow through our bodies or caress our skin, winds that climb mountains or descend hills, erode rocks and kiss wave´s crests. Winds that carry desert dust and garden seeds, that spread fire, burn and destroy. Winds that cross the street and whirl below the bridges, making bits of our life dance.
From the winds, I keep the memory of a breeze making refreshing my salty skin under a warm summer sun. A shiver as a sensory manifesto of a connection with the subtle that materializes in the flesh the unexplainable, the frisson that nature and art convey, a kind of savagery, life´s high.
This is the core concept of the group show Brisa, a proposition by the carioca gallery Quadra for its first exhibition in São Paulo. A stream of Rio de Janeiro´s winds, a subjective displacement as an intuitive and unpretentious parenthesis, a gentle stroke in a brutal life, some oxygen for our nostrils.
The intuition and experimentation that guide Quadra´s curatorial line also gather the artists of the show. Ana Almeida´s moving landscapes bring dense topographies that mix nature´s murky colors with the tones of a toxic urbanity in supports that reveal a thought freed from its traditional frame. In dialogue with Ana Almeida´s narrative and contradicting her raw materiality, Yasmin Guimaraes´ light pastel brushstrokes emerge from the canvas ‘periphery to suggest ethereal sceneries and punctuations that remind musical scores.
Flora Rebollo, on her side, proposes works that seem to emerge from a cosmic dream and which fluidity blurs the frontiers between drawing, painting and installation. The personal mythology the artist develops in her body of work echoes with Elvis Almeida´s almost meditative paintings, in which the repetition of patterns and symnbols until exhaustion appear to overcome Art History and subculture´s references to reach a balance through the imperfection of the hand gesture. The recurrence of archetypical motives seem to create bridges in time, bringing his production closer to artworks from Mayan, Egyptian, Indian or Aboriginal civilizations or modern and contemporary artists such as Lorenzato, Yayoi Kusama or Forrest Bess.
Invoking Bess, the textures and colors of Matheus Chiaratti´s instinctive paintings dive as well in the field of intuition, sensuality, nature and Jungian concepts such as the unconscious collective with apparently simple and easy compositions (here fingers also serve as paintbrushes) that reflect intimate and sacred universes.
In a similar way, Guilherme Ginane translates with vigorous paintings a psychic journey which chromatic composition and movement goes beyond the classical division between background and foreground and between Carioca, Paulista and European painting in an open dialogue with Art History.
Converging with this posture, Thomáz Rosa and Marcelo Pacheco present eventually, a selection of the influences that guide and contaminate their research, such as Modern Art, Concrete Poetry, Pop Art, Minimalism, music and. in Tomáz Rosa´s multiverses, the prosaic; and in Marcelo Pacheco´s production, the erudite, popular and the everyday. In the artists´ works, references mixes without hierarchies, creating a place where painting acts as a medium in the quest of a detached chance.
Gathering universes and entropies of 8 artists from Rio and São Paulo and launching a first season of Quadra gallery in the land of drizzle (terra da garoa), Brisa offers an immersion that embraces subjective and collective; Past, present and a certain idea of the future, with the partial and affective portrait of a young generation of painters mixing in a light and loose way, compositions, palettes and brushstrokes in a high called life.
Ana Claudia Almeida (Rio de Janeiro 1993, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brésil): Ana Cláudia Almeida's investigation is based on the languages of painting and drawing. She works with elements such as time, action, and landscape intertwined in the construction of a space for subjectivity. She understands surfaces as storytellers of their own lives and specific time frames. From the ideas of nature, artificiality, and normativity, she creates distinct elements that make up plastic systems. Bachelor in Industrial Design from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro with partial completion of the undergraduate program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Resident of the programs Pivô Pesquisa (2020), C.M.A. Hélio Oiticica (2019), Valongo Festival Internacional (2018). Nominated for the Pipa Prize in 2020 and finalist for the EDP das Artes Prize (2018). Solo exhibitions at Quadra Arte (2021) and at the Niterói Art Foundation (2018). Selected group showsinclude institutions as Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte do Rio, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro, Museu da República, Galpão Bela Maré and Solar do Abacaxis. Her work was recently acquired by the Museu de Arte do Rio and Inhotim collection.
Elvis Almeida (Rio de Janeiro, 1985, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro): graduated in engraving from the Fine Arts school of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Almeida took on serigraphy classes with Evany Cardoso at the Visual Arts Parque Lage school, and Art History with Jailton Moreira, at Rede Maré, Rio de Janeiro. In 2007, he received the Incubadora Furnas Sociocultural para Talentos Artísticos grant, as well as the First Prize in Graphite Category from the 47° Salão de Artes Plásticas de Pernambuco (BR). In 2009, he participated of VIth International Art Biennial SIART in La Paz, Bolivia, and showed in Iluminando o Novo, Largo das Artes and in Espaço Furnas Cultural, as well as in Vem Na Mão, Centro Cultural Justiça Federal in Rio de Janeiro (BR). In 2010, he had his forts solo show, Uma Cidade de Xapisco Dividida por um Muro de Cau, at Galeria Amarelonegro, Rio de Janeiro. He also participated of the group shows Abre Alas 6, at A Gentil Carioca gallery; Arquivo Geral, at Centro Carioca de Design, Rio de Janeiro, and Reality Reimagined, in Modified Arts, Phoenix, Estados Unidos. In 2011, he participated in Arte Pará 2011, Belém (BR) and won the grant Interações Florestais 2011, of Terra UMA, Serra da Mantiqueira (BR). In 2012, he showed Gramática Urbana, curated by Vanda Klabin, at the Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro (BR). In 2015, he participated of the group show MANIFESTO, Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro where he had his first solo show in 2016 as well as “Estrada nebulosa sem olhos de gato” in 2019.
Flora Rebollo (1983, lives and works in São Paulo): she graduated in Visual Arts at the University of São Paulo (USP), having made one year of exchange with the École Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon, in France. In her drawing, Rebollo’s most recurrent creative practice, the artist employs a number of graphic features that result in large-scale compositions that are intriguing by their profuse use of electric and muddy colors, in elusive shapes that rebuild themselves incessantly. In 2021 she had her solo show “Cinco Pontas'“, at Projeto Venus (São Paulo, BR). In 2018, she participated in the show “Rocambole” at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, the Art Dubai Residency Project, that focused on Latin America curated by Fernanda Brenner, the group show “Las flores azules que están hablando...” at IK Projects in Lima, Perú and the group show “Comigo ninguém pode” at Jaqueline Martins Gallery in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2017 she held a solo show at Galeria Pilar in São Paulo and participated in the residency “Pivô Research Program”. In 2016 she had her first solo show at the Centro Cultural São Paulo. In the last years she participated in the group show “Coisas sem Nomes”, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute, and the “XI Bienal do Recôncavo”, where she won the Grand Prize (an artistic residency in Milan, with the supervision of critic and curator Antonio d’Avossa); In 2018 her work became part of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo collection.
Guilherme Ginane (1980, Rio de Janeiro, lives and works in São Paulo)
Guilherme Ginane's pictorial practice is an attempt to bewilder the notion of the "conventional" perspective from a claustrophobic trompe-l'oeil, where transparency and opacity, empty and full, figure and background fight each other for a place. It is in this struggle that the surface of the painting gains different times and makes it so that objects and figures receive independent points of view, establishing a coexistence on the same plane, but of parallel universes. His compositions form a shifting totality that is slightly distorted by contradiction and by the incompatibility between fragmentary autonomies. He has a degree in Social Communication from Universidade Gama Filho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in Arts from Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was also monitored by the artist Paulo Pasta, from 2010 to 2013. Among his solo exhibitions, there are: Menózada, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil (2020); Algumas sombras, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019) and Que dia feliz hoje ainda vai ser, Galeria Millan, São Paulo, Brazil (2017). Invited by the curator Douglas Freitas, he participated in the session SOLOS, at Feira PARTE, in a project that included four artists on the rise in 2017. He participated in the group exhibitions O que não é floresta é prisão política, Ocupação 9 de julho, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); #iff2018, Instutito Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, (2018); Desossego, Galeria Estação, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); Abre alas, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016) and CONTÍNUO, Galeria Marcelo Guarnieri, São Paulo, Brazil (2014). He also participated in the Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (2014 and 2013) and did artistic residency at Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil, between 2015 and 2016. Some of his works are part of the collection of Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, SP.
Marcelo Pacheco (Campinas, 1984, lives and works in São Paulo)
Graduated in Law from the Universidade de São Paulo in 2009. He started to paint in 2013 and to exhibit from 2016, in salons and groups shows. He got his first solo show at Sancovsky gallery in São Paulo in 2018 curated by Douglas de Freitas. Endo f 2018 he moved to the artist run space and studio No final de 2018, Massapê Projetos (SP), inaugurating a site specific work there in August 2019 as part of the exhibition “Featuring” with Thomaz Rosa and Leandro Muniz. He was nominated for the Prêmio Pipa 2020. In 2021 he had solo shows at Quadra Arte gallery in Rio de Janeiro, curated by Julie Dumont and at Casa de Cultura do Parque, in São Paulo, curated by Cláudio Cretti and text by Fernanda Pitta.
Matheus Chiaratti (Birigui, 1988, lives and works between São Paulo and Milan)
Graduated in Image and Sound from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Matheus Chiaratti works with visual arts since 2012, when he created the analogical photography collective Companhia Rapadura. Since then, he dedicated himself to painting and literature, participating from group shows in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Berlin. In 2018, he won the acquisition prize from the traditional Salon Luiz Sacilotto of Santo André. He also initiated the arte_passagem project, in which he invites young artists to interfere in a commercial showcase, in downtown São Paulo. In 2018, Chiaratti participated to the Palazzo Monti artistic residence in Brescia, Italy and subsequently in2019 he had the solo show Rivolvita at Galerie21 in Livorno, Italy. He had solo shows in Brazil: Umbigo do Desejo at Quadra Arte in Rio de Janeiro and Os coroados, at Kura and Pinga in São Paulo. He participated to the following group shows: Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2021); Prossimamente, Bari, Italy (2021); Palazzo Monti: Transatlantico, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, USA (2020); Suave coisa nenhuma, OMA Galeria, São Bernardo do Campo, BR (2020); Pazzo Palazzo, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy (2019); Galerie21, Livorno, Italy (2019); Desconhecido, Liberdade. Memorial Dom Lucas, São João del Rei (2019); 46º Salão de Arte Contemporânea Luiz Sacilotto, Santo André (2018); O Maravilhamento das Coisas. Galeria Sancovsky, São Paulo (2018); O Caminho da Estrada Real, a duo exhibition with Daniel DiFerdinando. Breu, São Paulo (2017); SIM, a duo exhibition with Julia Brandão. PHD Galeria, São Paulo (2016), Me Encantaría Sentir Algo. PHD Galeria, São Paulo (2015); Uno. Convoi, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015).
Thomáz Rosa (1989, São Caetano do Sul, Sao Paulo, lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil).
Gratuaded in Visual Arts from the University of São Paulo (UNESP). His first solo shows UNWELT, took place at Galeria BFA Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo, Brazil in 2015. He then showed Rifacciamoci la bocca con i cibi buoni di GUSTO at Castiglioni in Milano, Italia (2021); Pintou na sala at Casa de Cultura do Parque, São Paulo, Brazil (2020), Intorno alla mia cattiva educazione at Castiglioni, Milano, Itaia (2019) and February at MendesWood DM gallery in São Paulo, Brazil. He was also part of the following group shows Four Points, Duas de Letra, Café Galeria do Porto, Portugal (2013); Move Up, Universidade do Porto, Portugal (2013); A Selection of Works by Brazilian Artists Marcelo Cipis and Thomaz Rosa, BFA Boatos Fine Arts, Milan, Italy (2016); Circumscriptio, Compositio, Receptio Luminum, Galeria BFA Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo, Brazil (2016); Oito Artistas [Eight Artists], Galeria Mendes Woods DM, São Paulo, Brazil (2016), curated by Bruno Dunley and Lucas Arruda; Independent Régence, Belgium (2017), Ontem foi um dia longo [Yesterday was a Long Day], curated by Guilherme Teixeira, at Museu de Arte, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2017).
Yasmin Guimarães (Ribeirão Preto – SP, 1991, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Guimarães has exhibited in the solo shows “Eyes e yes”, Galeria Superfície, São Paulo (2018); “Guimarães – reticências”, Galeria Superfície, São Paulo (2016) and among other group shows in “Abraço Coletivo”, Ateliê397, São Paulo (2019), “Entre a Terra e o Mar”, Galeria Quadra, Rio de Janeiro (2019), ”Habita-me”, Palacete 1922, Ribeirão Preto (2018), “Scapeland - Território de Trânsito Livre”, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo (2018), “Almas não tem idade”, Sítio Prisma d'Água, Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brasil, (2017), “auroras: pequenas pinturas”, curated by Bruno Dunley and Ricardo Kugelmas. Auroras, São Paulo (2016); “Oito Artistas”, curated by Bruno Dunley and Lucas Arruda, Galeria Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2016).
The artist started her research in conceptual photography and installative objects before starting painting. Her paintings stem from the representation of landscapes, images and elements of the world that dissolve and fragment themselves through different supports and swift brush strokes, spots of flat or accumulated paint.
