Exhibitions

Arrebalde

Paula Siebra Nov 30, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021 São Paulo, Consolação Paula Siebra has only recently begun exhibiting her work and this is her first exhibition in São Paulo. As a young artist based in Fortaleza (Ceará), she is still defining her areas of interest. Even though she paints contemporary subjects, her practice evokes the best of 20th-century Latin American painting.... View Exhibition

Vamos chamar o vento

Patricia Leite Nov 28, 2020 – Feb 1, 2021 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is delighted to present Patricia Leite’s fourth solo show at the gallery. Under the title Vamos chamar o vento [Let’s Call the Wind], the exhibition features oil pastel drawings, collages and recent paintings. In Leite’s early painting process, drawing is used as a departure point,... View Exhibition

noite não noite sim

Paloma Bosquê Nov 11, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021 São Paulo, Consolação noite não noite sim [one other night] , Paloma Bosquê’s third solo show at Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, presents a series of sculptural objects that, by placing in tension the distinction between the animate and the inanimate, reveal the strengthening of the artist’s relationship with the signs and matter... View Exhibition

Memory as Architecture, Memory as Skin

Heidi Bucher Sep 15 – Nov 13, 2020 São Paulo, Consolação It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents its first exhibition of Heidi Bucher’s work. Due to these singular times that we are living in, the show will, for the first time in our programme, articulate itself in two iterations, an online presentation that will be continued with... View Exhibition

Workspaces: redesigned through time

Group Exhibition Jun 26 – Sep 1, 2020 São Paulo, Consolação Bossa Furniture and Mendes Wood DM present Workspaces: redesigned through time, an exhibition that explores the history of office spaces from 1950 until today. By gathering Brazilian designers and artists such as Geraldo de Barros, Anna Bella Geiger, Joaquim Tenreiro, Lorenzato, Jorge Zalzuspin, Rosana Paulino, Carlo Hauner and many others,... View Exhibition

CONSTRUÇÃO

Group Exhibition Feb 6 – Apr 30, 2020 São Paulo, Consolação Organized by Renato Silva Adriana Varejão, Adriano Costa, Ana Mendieta, Anna Bella Geiger, Antonio Dias, Antonio Obá, Carla Zaccagnini, Carlos Vergara, Claudia Andujar, Coco Fusco, Dalton Paula, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Deyson Gilbert, Doris Salcedo, Éder Oliveira, Fernanda Andrade, Flávio Cerqueira, Gustavo Speridião, Hariel Revignet, Jac Leirner, Lawrence Weiner, Lucas Arruda,... View Exhibition

Bebê Rasteja

Santiago de Paoli Nov 23, 2019 – Jan 24, 2020 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Argentine artist Santiago de Paoli in Brazil. Bebê Rasteja brings together recent oil paintings on felt, copper, cardboard, plaster and wood. De Paoli develops his painting in a particular sphere of discussion about the image, bringing... View Exhibition

BÚFALA

Rosana Paulino Nov 23, 2019 – Jan 24, 2020 São Paulo, Consolação It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM São Paulo presents BÚFALA (in Portuguese, female buffalo), Rosana Paulino’s first solo show at the gallery. The exhibition brings together recent and earlier works in which the São Paulo-born artist uses multiple media, such as drawing, textile and sculpture. Since the... View Exhibition

Veredas

Group Exhibition Nov 23, 2019 – Jan 24, 2020 São Paulo, Consolação The Under and Over-Mapped: Nonada Nonada: with this word João Guimarães Rosa opens his seminal novel The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956). Contrary to speculation, nonada is an invented word. Portuguese dictionaries describe its as ‘next to nothing’ or ‘pittance’. However, the word can be considered an aiming... View Exhibition

Conversations on limits and unlimits

Anna Boghiguian Aug 28 – Nov 14, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Women can’t write, women can’t paint but what have I done with my life? The truth should be spoken courageously I want to put into words but without description the existence of the cave that some time ago I painted-and I don't know how. To remake myself and remake you... View Exhibition

Après nous le déluge

Mimi Lauter Aug 24 – Nov 14, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter's first solo exhibition in Brazil. Entitled Apres nous, le deluge, the exhibition brings together recent oil and soft pastel paintings on paper. The works are comprised of expansive fields of layered colors and swirling textures assembling... View Exhibition

THE ASHES, THE MIRROR, THE REVERSE OF BRIGHTNESS AND THE BECOMING OF FIRE

Sofia Borges Jun 4 – May 18, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Sofia Borges at the gallery. Working primarily with photography, the artist creates her images by combining and overlying the incognito in a constant process of excavation - often creating subtracted images from other images, thus proposing... View Exhibition

Parques e outros pretextos, curated by Camila Bechelany

Patricia Leite and Cristiano Rennó May 25 – Aug 14, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação View Exhibition

Sentinela

Antonio Obá Apr 4 – May 18, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Antonio Obá develops his body of work through a road linking colonial Brazil and contemporary Brazil. Also, he walks on this road from the moment he begins to understand the black body and the black individual in the construction of history. This understanding came at the beginning of his relationship... View Exhibition

Rubem Valentim

Rubem Valentim Feb 27 – Apr 20, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM New York is pleased to present an exhibition of iconographic paintings, totems, reliefs, and tapestries by Rubem Valentim. Comprised of works made between 1969 and 1990, this exhibition brings together Valentim’s geometric abstractions which intertwine the modernist rationality of Constructivism with Brazilian popular culture. Valentim’s works are... View Exhibition

Questão de Ordem

Deyson Gilbert Feb 9 – Mar 20, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação The work of Deyson Gilbert is marked by the physical and formal tension to which his pieces are exposed; the way they interact with the spectator; and the presence of two or more elements (objects, graphic signs etc.) joined together by provisional fittings, oscillating points of support or openly impudent... View Exhibition

Fevereiro

Group Exhibition Feb 9 – Mar 20, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the group show February, with the artist Camile Sproesser, Gokula Stoffel and Thomaz Rosa. Through painting in their different formalizations and researches, the artists express their deepening about the perennial issues of their time. Away from the ambition to rationalize or... View Exhibition

Sonia Gomes & Marga Ledora

Sonia Gomes Nov 24, 2018 – Jan 31, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Sonia Gomes and Marga Ledora's duo exhibition at the gallery. Sonia Gomes works with sculpture and installations made with different materials from varied backgrounds – such as clothes and furniture – playing with potential combinations between them. Her compositions stem from... View Exhibition

Kishio Suga

Nov 24, 2018 – Jan 31, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the japanese artist Kishio Suga’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Kishio Suga is one of Japan’s most celebrated artists, whose diverse and influential practice spans site-specific installation, assemblage, and performance. Suga, just as the whole generation of artists his period came... View Exhibition

Rubem Valentim Nov 24, 2018 – Jan 31, 2019 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Rubem Valentim in the gallery. Rubem Valentim began to produce work in the late 1940s. A self-taught painter. Valentim’s works unite various sources of Brazilian cultural heritage; referencing popular traditions from Northeastern ceramic production in Bahia... View Exhibition

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação View Exhibition

Lucas Arruda

Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação 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

TRECHERO

Paulo Nazareth Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação L'Arbre D'Oublier (Tree of Forgetfulness) 2013, video, 27'31 'During the slave trade from the African continent to America the men and women who were taken from their lands and arrived at the port of departure into an unknowing future - before crossing the Atlantic - had as their last alternative... View Exhibition

Alface

Marcelo Cipis May 26 – Jul 28, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Alface, Marcelo Cipis’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. This show unites paintings from the 90s and recent works, and introduces the artist’s ruleless gaze, humorously questioning the duty of painting at times of mass production. The first room introduces some works from... View Exhibition

We Chose Life . What Now, Georg? Tshirts ?

Adriano Costa May 26 – Jul 28, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação You want to know about the show. What it will be ... good question. It's my second show in the main gallery room. I'll use two spaces, the back room as well. Which is really cool. The show has a lot of lack of control not only mine, but of... View Exhibition

Medley

Paulo Nimer Pjota Apr 7 – May 5, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação 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

No element, however has the final word in the construction of the future

Runo Lagomarsino Apr 7 – May 17, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of the Swedish-Argentine artist Runo Lagomarsino. Lagomarsino unites new and previous works that elaborate on the legacy of colonialism, geopolitics, cultural boundaries andpower relations from an almost untraceable melancholic perspective. In the first room, the wall is... View Exhibition

Ken Kagami & Trevor Shimizu Feb 23 – Mar 25, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação Trevor Shimizu: Hi Ken, I am writing about our upcoming show together. It is our first show since 2012, HOT. Five years ago. What have you been up to since then? Ken Kagami: It's been five years since the HOT exhibition! I feel as though time has passed so quickly.... View Exhibition

rivieras___bags___scarves___alps

Fernando Marques Penteado Feb 23 – Mar 25, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present rivieras___bags___scarves___alps, the third individual exhibition of the Brazilian artist f.marquespenteado at the gallery. The artist invites the visitors on a journey to a distant place, of an old-fashion glamour, Rivieras and Alps, casinos, fiscal and touristic paradises. In his new series made from... View Exhibition

Our dog-eyes

Marina Perez Simão Feb 22 – Mar 23, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação I was born mathematician, wizard I was born poet. The cross on the forehead The dry laugh The scream I discover myself king Sequined by shadow The knives punching Time and sensibility – Hilda Hilst Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the fourth individual exhibition of the artist Marina... View Exhibition

Polyethylene-Insulated Smear

Nina Canell Nov 25, 2017 – Jan 30, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação 'Ready to join the migration my mail might have gotten lost from server to floral chorus in a spam filter taking the infinitesimal conduction of trees into account in the process so that you don't think I'm entirely some sort of medieval hermit with vegetable metabolism marked unread on an... View Exhibition

Paulo Monteiro

Paulo Monteiro Nov 25, 2017 – Feb 2, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Paulo Monteiro’s third solo exhibition in the gallery. In a selection of sculptures and wall reliefs in cold porcelain, the artist revisits works in bronze from 1987 that record the form of the hands, wrist and fingers or, at other times, a body... View Exhibition

Eary Poise

Iulia Nistor Nov 25, 2017 – Jan 2, 2018 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Eary Poise , Iulia Nistor’s first solo exhibition in São Paulo. The artist introduces her new paintings on wood. These works are the result ofa method that consists in overlapping various layers of paint and repeatedly removing them with paper pressings and sandpaper.... View Exhibition

20xx

Neïl Beloufa Sep 27 – Nov 12, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present 20xx, Neïl Beloufa’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Revolving around the multiple paradoxes inherent to our consumer culture, the artist presents a series of new works that appropriate commercial images in order to look at contemporary systems of representation. He shows a... View Exhibition

Batatas-Pedras

Wilfredo Prieto Sep 27 – Nov 12, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação We can gather that the set of works presented by Wilfredo Prieto in his first exhibition at the Mendes Wood DM gallery establishes itself at the cornerstones of duality. The distinct objects that echo in chain, at times intermittent and often peremptory, transfer to the spectator a silence that instigates... View Exhibition

Hall

Luiz Roque Aug 12 – Sep 16, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação A hall is a hall: An architectural element that works as a division between the centre of a building and its exterior. The immediate space after the entrance, designed to welcome, to provide shelter to strangers and first contact with familiar faces before entering the comfort of home. Here, the... View Exhibition

Wrong Happy Hour

Aki Sasamoto Aug 12 – Sep 16, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents the first solo exhibition by Japanese artist Aki Sasamoto in Brazil. The show springs from a performance titled Wrong Happy Hour . For this project, the artist has gathered drawings, installations, videos and performances. Sasamoto’s practice draws on the common... View Exhibition

Planisphere

Letícia Ramos May 25 – Jul 29, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação Before you got here In the book The Lost World, we have an unnamed character who is present in all its 587 pages. It is a voice in first person binding the narrative which becomes increasingly dense throughout the book’s only two chapters: Origins and Organisation . The book tells... View Exhibition

True Myths

Julie Beaufils May 25 – Jul 29, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to feature the project True Myths of French artist Julie Beaufils in Brazil. Based on an observation of the city as an organism in function of time, the artist displays a series of paintings that the spectator could observe as an exercise of temporal displacement.... View Exhibition

The Telomeric Cut

Felipe Meres May 25 – Jul 29, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present The Telomeric Cut, Felipe Meres’s first project in Sao Paulo. Working across media, Meres’s work weaves entanglements between scientific desire and the indeterminate matter that ceaselessly evades its grasp. The exhibition features all new work, including a series of microscopic images that unfurl... View Exhibition

Dadamaino

Apr 8 – Jun 14, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the Italian artist Dadamaino’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. As one of the few women active in the artistic scene of her time, Dadamaino became a powerful voice in the context of social and cultural transformations and established a direct dialogue with the... View Exhibition

Old Hope

Paulo Nazareth Apr 8 – May 20, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Paulo Nazareth’s third exhibition at the gallery. The artist lives and works in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The show brings together recent works that question aspects of Brazilian art history from the modernist period until today; the commercialisation resulting from the... View Exhibition

Antônio Obá

Feb 18 – Mar 26, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure to present the first solo show in São Paulo by the artist Antônio Obá. The artworks exhibited encompass a diversity of supports and media, such as painting, monotype, installation and performance. The artist incorporates Brazilian religious icons to question a racial and political identity... View Exhibition

Fire Sale

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Feb 18 – Mar 25, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação SOCIAL FANTASY (Mousse Magazine #56) Matthew Lutz-Kinoy interviewed by Tenzing Barshee TB: How’s the weather in São Paulo? MLK: It was really sunny. But now it’s raining every day. TB: This is the third time you’ve traveled to Brazil to make art. What kind of work did you make the... View Exhibition

Donkey Man

Alessandro Carano & Francesco João Scavarda Feb 18 – Mar 25, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents the exhibition of the Italian artist Alessandro Carano and the Italian-Brazilian artist Francesco João Scavarda at the gallery. The artists declare: Individually, our works don’t have much in common, but we both work with an idea of the sublime that... View Exhibition

Solange Pessoa

Nov 22, 2016 – Feb 4, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação Solange Pessoa: memória e desencanto Minas não há mais – Carlos Drummond de Andrade Minas Gerais tem fraudes, tem quimeras – Paulo Mendes Campos Há no trabalho de Solange Pessoa um acentuado sentimento ruinoso em relação ao tempo e sua ação. A memória que perpassa sua produção está ligada sobretudo... View Exhibition

Resonating Surfaces

Group Exhibition Nov 22, 2016 – Feb 4, 2017 São Paulo, Consolação Aleta Valente, Björn Braun, Bruce Nauman, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, David Bestué, Deyson Gilbert, Dominique González-Foerster, Dora Garcia, Franz Erhard Walther, Ignasi Aballí, Jac Leirner, Jason Dodge, Josh Tonsfeldt, Lawrence Weiner, Lenora de Barros, Lucas Arruda, Luis Bisbe, Lygia Clark, Manon de Boer, Pablo Alonso, Pablo Pijnappel, Pamela Rosenkranz, Paulo Monteiro,... View Exhibition

Circa MMXVI New and previews works

Anna Bella Geiger Oct 15 – Dec 12, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Ana Bella Geiger’s second solo show at the gallery‭. ‬Geiger is a painter‭, ‬an engraver‭, ‬illustrator‭, ‬multidisciplinary artist‭, ‬lecturer and an almost sculptor‭. ‬Beginning her career in the 1950s‭, ‬the artist took part in the 1st National Exhibition of Abstract... View Exhibition

Track Changes

by Plan B Sep 9 – Oct 30, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Curated by Plan B Ioana Batranu, Rudolf Bone, Sorin Campan, Victor Ciato, Horia Damian, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Adrian Ghenie, Octav Grigorescu, Victor Man, Ciprian Muresan, Iulia Nistor, Miklos Onucsan, Serban Savu The exhibition Track Changes takes the model of a boîte-en-valise show‭, ‬following the program of Galeria Plan B through a... View Exhibition

Field

Paloma Bosquê Aug 13 – Sep 21, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Her research draws largely on her daily practice in the studio. In this environment, Bosquê handles and freely associates different materials , creating original compositions and developing specific methods to combine, juxtapose and join elements that are unlikely to occupy the same space in a different context. Brass, felt, bronze,... View Exhibition

Deserto-Modelo as above, so below

Lucas Arruda Aug 8 – Sep 21, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação 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

James Lee Byars

May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the first solo show by American artist James Lee Byars in South America. The exhibition features a series of marble sculptures shown in display case/installations, as well as works created on paper. A search for the ephemerality of beauty and the minimalism... View Exhibition

A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster

Cibelle Cavalli Bastos May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster the first solo show by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos at the gallery. In her new series, the artist works with video installations, latex sculptures, ceramics, paintings and other media, bringing to the center of... View Exhibition

Prediction

Group Exhibition May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Curated by Milovan Farronato Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Adriano Costa, Raúl De Nieves, Patrizio di Massimo, f.marquespenteado, Chiara Fumai, Celia Hampton, George Henry Longly, Christian Holstad, Runa Islam, Zhana Ivanova, Goshka Macuga, Solange Pessoa, Liliana Moro, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Mathilde Rosier, Prem Sahib, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Santo Tolone, Erika Verzutti,... View Exhibition

Lines in Wefts

Sonia Gomes Apr 9 – Aug 8, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of announcing Lines in wefts , the third exhibition of Sonia Gomes's work at the São Paulo gallery. Gomes made a name for herself in recent years for work in which the interplay of found or donated objects transforms them into sculptures. After several... View Exhibition

On The Line

Haroon Gunn-Salie Apr 9 – Jun 6, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting On The Line , the solo exhibition of the South African artist Haroon Gunn-Salie. The show groups a series of artworks drawing parallels between the Global South. The artworks re-appropriate everyday memorials and silent monuments, shoes hanging off street poles and telephone... 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, Consolação 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

bárbara balaclava

Thiago Martins de Melo Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação When observing Thiago Martins de Melo's body of work over time , one notices a decantation of various aspects, which now culminates in the series “ bárbara balaclava.” Martins de Melo's paintings were never actually just two-dimensional. Much like a reading of his work could not be described as strictly... View Exhibition

Eight Artists

Group Exhibition Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Alexandre Wagner Anderson Godinho Elvis Almeida Luís Teixeira Marcelo Jarosz Samuel Rodrigues Thomaz Rosa Yasmin Guimarães View Exhibition

Kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Nov 26, 2015 – Jan 26, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting Reino de todos os animais e de todos os bichos é meu nome [ Kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name ], the third solo exhibition at the gallery by Catalan artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. The set... View Exhibition

Every Camel Tells A Story

Adriano Costa Nov 11, 2015 – Jan 26, 2016 São Paulo, Consolação Igniting a tension between humor and the political, Adriano Costa exposes the nuances of the cultural value systems placed on objects. His works are not governed by specific rules or ideas, instead, they inhabit a realm of neutrality, incorporating disparate materials such as concrete, paper, bronze, cloth, wire, wood, and... View Exhibition

The Inside of Distance

Paulo Monteiro Oct 3 – Nov 7, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the São Paulo artist Paulo Monteiro's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Monteiro began working as an artist in 1977, drawing comic strips in a style influenced by cartoonists such as Robert Crumb and George McManus and the renowned Brazilian caricaturist Luiz... View Exhibition

The Stamp of Anything or That part which never bears leaves or reproductive organs, ordinarily underneath and descending

Michael Dean Oct 3 – Nov 11, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Es war Erde in ihnen Paul Celan (1963) Es war Erde in ihnen, und sie gruben. Sie gruben und gruben, so ging ihr Tag dahin, ihre Nacht. Und sie lobten nicht Gott, der, so hörten sie, alles dies wollte, der, so hörten sie, alles dies wusste. Sie gruben und hörten... View Exhibition

Lacuna

Runo Lagomarsino Aug 15 – Sep 25, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present the second solo show of Swedish-Argentinian artist Runo Lagomarsino. Avi Alpert writes specially for the show: Ordinary Language Photography: Runo Lagomarsino's Lacuna Thinking about the works in this show, I began to ask myself: What does it mean to have an experience of... View Exhibition

Viva la Juicy

Stewart Uoo Aug 15 – Sep 25, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure to present Viva la Juicy the fisrt solo show by American artist Stewart Uoo in Brazil. Andrew Durbin writes specially for this exhibition, I used to go to a restaurant called Earth Matters to think. Located on the Lower East Side, it was a... View Exhibition

Work Over Time

Allyson Vieira Aug 15 – Sep 25, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first solo show of American artist Allyson Vieira in Brazil. 'Work Over Time ' is a new body of sculptural work produced during her two-month residence in the city of São Paulo.  In this exhibition Vieira once again confronts the relationship between... View Exhibition

Solange Pessoa

May 28 – Aug 1, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Minas Gerais born artist Solange Pessoa's first solo show at the gallery. Pessoa holds her degree from the Guinard School of Art at Minas Gerais State University, where she has taught sculpture since 1993. Pessoa has built an artistic career over more than... View Exhibition

Princess Pompom in The Villa of Falling Flowers

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy May 28 – Aug 1, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação At the core of Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s practice is the performance-based production of fantastic space. Deeply influenced by histories of collaborative and queer practice, his research-based performances have taken shape as multi-act dance productions, traveling dinner parties, and programmed events within his exhibitions. Princess PomPom in the Villa of Falling Flowers... View Exhibition

Part Time Nuns

Lucy Dodd May 28 – Aug 1, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Morning has broken like the first morning Blackbird has spoken like the first bird Praise for the singing, praise for the morning Praise for the springing fresh from the world Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from Heaven Like the first dewfall on the first grass Praise for the sweetness... View Exhibition

The Grass is Singing

Group Exhibition Apr 11 – May 23, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Curated by The Modern Institute Luke Fowler, Eva Rothschild, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins, Richard Wright, Martin Boyce The Grass is Singing makes reference to the T. S. Eliot poem Waste Land (1922), and subsequently the 1950s novel by Doris Lessing. Eliot’s poem blends antique myths and representations of contemporary society,... View Exhibition

Celso Renato

Apr 11 – May 23, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the first solo exhibition by Minas Gerais artist Celso Renato (1919 – 1992) in the last 20 years. His career as an artist began when he was middle-aged, starting in the 1970s and '80s – the period in which his work took... View Exhibition

Saudade do Brasil

Patricia Leite Apr 11 – May 23, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Saudade do Brasil (1920) is the title of a suite of twelve dances for piano composed by Darius Milhaud after his stay in Brazil from 1917 to 1918. The dances are named for places in Brazil, referring to the landscapes of Rio which enchanted him while he served on a... View Exhibition

Betty Woodman

Apr 11 – May 23, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting American artist Betty Woodman's first solo exhibition in Latin America. The universe presented in this project is part of a more than 50-year process of refinement and expansion in her techniques, as well as a study of the limits between painting and... View Exhibition

Poem N° 00000000000000000,9

Group Exhibition Mar 10 – Jul 7, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Curated by Supportico Lopez for Mendes Wood DM Julian Beck, Henri Chopin, Adriano Costa, Lenora de Barros, Natalie Häusler, James Hoff, Karl Holmqvist, Gregorio Magnani, Zin Taylor It is impossible one cannot continue with the all powerful Word, the Word that reigns over all. One cannot continue to admit it... View Exhibition

travel journal of uncataloged landscapes. location/date: 3006AHK/200 years before 200 years later

Marina Perez Simão Feb 28 – Mar 28, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the third solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Marina Perez Simão to be held at the gallery. There is no question that every observed landscape resides on two distinct and complementary planes; it exists in itself as well as in its context, in... View Exhibition

Primeira Pedra

Matheus Rocha Pitta Feb 28 – Mar 28, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting Primeira Pedra [ First Stone ], the second solo show of Brazilian artist Matheus Rocha Pitta to be held at the gallery. The sculpture for which the exhibition is named consists of small concrete cubes produced in series. Sized perfectly to fit... View Exhibition

TraysForFlotation

Adriano Amaral Feb 28 – Mar 28, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação An observation of Adriano Amaral’s creations and his work process is equally pleasurable and dense. The artist’s creative environment embodies a universe of references which, in one way or another, seem to always point to things internal and prior to humanity itself, whether in time, in space or simply in... View Exhibition

non ducorocud non ou impugnação, plebiscito e legastenia

Deyson Gilbert Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 1, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação View Exhibition