Exhibitions

Cinza das horas

Group Show Jan 21 – Feb 25, 2023 Brussels Lucas Arruda, Eleonore Koch, Fabio Miguez and Paulo Pasta. Mendes Wood DM is proud to inaugurate Cinza das horas, a group exhibition organized by Lucas Arruda (b. 1983) that presents his work alongside paintings by fellow Brazilian artists Eleonore Koch (b.1926 - d. 2018), Fabio Miguez (b. 1962), and Paulo... View Exhibition

Assum Preto

Lucas Arruda Aug 21 – Oct 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition

Lucas Arruda

Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda I don’t know if you can hear it. We are all holding our breath. The gloves has been taken off him. There are four men in the corner Facing him Paret may draw a warning in the moment. Stretched out in the corner, just above us, in the neutral corner.... View Exhibition

Neutral Corner

Lucas Arruda Jun 8 – Jul 20, 2018 Brussels The work of few contemporary artists is able to evoke the sublime and have a tranquilizing effect the way Lucas Arruda paintings do. Where so many seem intent upon obstreperously embodying and conveying the infinite noise of the contemporary, his work has a way of all but shutting it out,... View Exhibition

Days and Horizons 

Lucas Arruda & On Kawara Mar 3 – Apr 29, 2017 New York Mendes Wood DM New York March 3 — April 29, 2017 What at might first seem to be an unusual pairing –  the date paintings of conceptualism ’ s late-great existentialist On Kawara, and a Brazilian painter born in 1980 who is predominantly given to depicting imaginary seascape horizon lines... View Exhibition

Deserto-Modelo as above, so below

Lucas Arruda Aug 8 – Sep 21, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Lucas Arruda’s third solo exhibition Deserto-Modelo as above so below. The first room introduces an installation that combines light and paint, where the light’s temperature and intensity are orchestrated over a period of nine minutes. The artist investigates the relationship... View Exhibition

Deserto-Modelo

Lucas Arruda Apr 4 – May 3, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda The pieces by Lucas Arruda are about memory in the first place, before being landscape painting. They are memories built inside the atelier, not outdoors. They are more characterized as moments of the artist instead of nature: a second content deriving from the first one. There is the will to... View Exhibition