Past
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Na Boca do Sol
Paulo Nimer Pjota Jan 27 – Mar 2, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 27 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Mendes Wood DM presents Na Boca do Sol, Paulo Nimer Pjota’s first solo show in New York. The exhibition’s title refers to an eponymous 1972 Arthur Verocai song, fragments from which have frequently been used as samples both internationally... View Exhibition -
Do cômico e do trágico
Paulo Nimer Pjota May 27 – Aug 12, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present “Do cômico e do trágico” a new solo exhibition by Paulo Nimer Pjota at our Barra Funda space in São Paulo. What are the possible connections between representations of a couple of Buddhist deities, domestic scenes, and the images that decorate both Chinese... View Exhibition -
Medley
Paulo Nimer Pjota Apr 7 – May 5, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of Paulo Nimer Pjota in the gallery. Continuing his research into the iconographic structures that comprise the collective imagination of art history and inhabit the universe of mass culture, the artist uses metal plates and raw canvas... View Exhibition -
The history in repeat mode — image
Paulo Nimer Pjota Jun 29 – Aug 5, 2017 Brussels Paulo Nimer Pjota’s work is developed based on the nature of collectively originated phenomena. His research and practice concentrate on a profound study of a kind of popular iconography which can only be developed through complex processes conducted by countless sets of hands. We can thus think of his body... View Exhibition -
Synthesis between contradictory ideas and the plurality of the object as image I
Paulo Nimer Pjota Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda A common atmosphere of collectively composed panels – including street murals, vernacular constructions and public bathrooms -- permeate Paulo Nimer Pjota's entire body of work. By leading a study of popular iconography that deliberately seems conducted by multiple hands, the artist produces in the tension between randomness and a meticulous... View Exhibition -
Paulo Nimer Pjota
Dec 1 – 22, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curator Gunnar Kvaran writes about Pjota’s practice: Plants, crystals, skulls, flowers, human bodies, fishes, mechanical objects, crabs, body parts, isolated words and phrases float around in a variety of scales and sizes on the surface of Paulo Nimer Pjota’s canvases, seemingly in a haphazard and serendipitous way. His iconography comes... View Exhibition
