Exhibitions

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 show 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

3 novels

Fernando Marques Penteado Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 1, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Love creates plots which in turn define the destinies of its subjects, both courting and displeasing those who become involved in it. Life is the arena for these love stories, a play staged outdoors. 3 novels amplifies fictional stories that grew out of the narrator's love-life with three of his... View Exhibition

Being blonde with insufficient funds (transpirations of a virgin)

Florian Meisenberg Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 30, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Man is born with feet, but wings he must grow himself. The longer and stronger the wings become, the less the feet leave traces on the earth. The same applies to artists – the higher they fly with the help of the wings they grew, the less signifiers they leave... View Exhibition

The Plutonian House

Maria Loboda Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 30, 2015 São Paulo, Consolação Unlike what the title might suggest, Maria Loboda’s Witch's Ladder isn't something that can be climbed up and down. The feathers attached to the rope, which resemble steps, correspond to each of the spells proffered by a witch, who later hides the rope under the bed of the person she... View Exhibition

Doble Eclipse

Guillermo Kuitca Oct 30 – Nov 22, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação After 15 years without showing in Brazil, one of the greatest Argentine painters, Guillermo Kuitca, has returned to the country for a highly significant stint of exhibitions in 2014. After a group show at Casa Daros, in May, and the retrospective show now running at the Pinacoteca do Estado de... View Exhibition

Circa MMXIV: Imagination is an Act of Freedom

Anna Bella Geiger Oct 10 – Nov 11, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Anna Bella Geiger is one of the most important Brazilian artists of the 20th century. Her work features a rich diversity of media and procedures and, like her singular biography, it always surprises us the deeper we delve. Anna Bella is one of the most experimental artists in the history... View Exhibition

Somewhere São Paulo

Lawrence Weiner Sep 6 – Oct 4, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação In the São Paulo metropolis, there are no historical traditions that can fully guarantee a relation between the buildings, their contexts and meanings. Thus, what happened to the oldest – and most significant – monument in São Paulo’s history, the bicentenary Obelisco da Memória (Memory Obelisk), is symptomatic. Its task... View Exhibition

Nascer Uma Vez Após a Outra

Sonia Gomes Aug 31 – Oct 4, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação I made these pieces because I need protection. nests. but this thought, about why I made, or make, them came later. it's funny, first I make them, then I think about them. I believe that the things in our subconscious are much more important than the act of thinking. Each... View Exhibition

From La Voie Humide

Tunga Aug 31 – Oct 22, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Orpheus, a Thracian, was born to Calliope, mother of muses, and Dionysius, god of wine, merrymaking, epiphany and ritual madness. An uncommon man, he descended into the world of Death to retrieve his lost love Eurydice, suspending all challenges with his song – from the three-headed guard dog Cerberus, who... View Exhibition

Permanent Playfulness, curated by Camilla Barella

Aug 31 – Oct 14, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present English artist Michael Dean’s first exhibition in Brazil, Sounds of Fucking, Sounds of Dying . The exhibition gathers nearly fifteen sculptures and marks the opening of the gallery’s new space in Vila Romana. Occupying the space with an almost megalithic solemnity, Dean’s sculptures... View Exhibition

Che Cherera

Paulo Nazareth Aug 31 – Oct 25, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação In the show Che Cherera , (from the Kaiowa for my name ) Paulo presents part of Notebooks of Africa [1], a number of impressions of Africa from there here, of Africa from here there, and of our own Africa with its other developments. Different from the literal sense we... View Exhibition

Nick Mauss & Ken Okiishi

Aug 9 – 27, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Ken Okiishi & Nick Mauss have been working together since they met in art school (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York) in 1998. Their collaborative works emerge from a continuous dialogue they have while working as individual artists as well. The artworks materialize –... View Exhibition

Jack Pierson

Aug 9 – 27, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Like a monument made of crepon paper and silver Exploring the sidewalks of São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista, Jack Pierson brought to life his first solo show in Brazil entitled You Don’t Own Me , a nod to Lesley Gore’s 1963 song. He asked street vendors to purchase their stands, their... View Exhibition

VOSTOK – Screening #1

Letícia Ramos Aug 9 – 27, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação The I Ching, known as The Book of Changes , a cornerstone of the eastern cannon, became a source for consultation and an oracle, for various strategic actions adopted by different dictatorships and military governments – subverting its real intention. When it was translated to English in the early 20th... View Exhibition

The Two Scene

Jesse Ash May 31 – Jun 26, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present The Two Scene , the first solo exhibition of the British artist Jesse Ash in Brazil. In collaboration with curator Carly McGoldrick, the exhibition forms the next phase of Avoidance–Avoidance (A Project of Transparency) , so far held at venues Index – Swedish... View Exhibition

Superlatives and Resolutions

Neïl Beloufa May 31 – Jun 26, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Superlatives and Resolutions , the first solo exhibition of French-Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa in Brazil. The show is a singular combination of various pieces Neïl Beloufa has reorganized in relation to the exhibition space. The artist here has build an multi-layered piece that... View Exhibition

Warmilk

Blake Rayne May 31 – Jun 26, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Warmilk the first solo exhibition of the North-American artist Blake Rayne in Brazil. Born in 1969, in Delaware, USA, Blake Rayne is acknowledged to be one of the principal artists of his generation. Art historian David Joselit defined once Blake Rayne’s generation as... View Exhibition

A step under

Paloma Bosquê Apr 5 – May 3, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação By taking back the urban hermits, Paloma Bosquê presents, in her first solo exhibition – A step under –, pieces she has been developing in the basement of her building throughout the years. Not so restrained in her iconography, like Lucas Arruda, she also seems to establish a dialogue with... View Exhibition

S Título C Amor From Me To U

Adriano Costa Apr 5 – May 3, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Adriano Costa is multiple. There are many Adrianos Costas inside Adriano Costa. I mean how the work of Adriano appears in the world. I feel like saying it is anarchic, but that would be imprecise. The anarchy lies on appearance. This is the wrong impression I get from Adriano’s work.... View Exhibition

Deserto-Modelo

Lucas Arruda Apr 4 – May 3, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação 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

DCVXVI

Deyson Gilbert Feb 15 – Mar 22, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação It is really hot, right? Yes, really hot. Well, I propose we begin with the basic protocol: what is the title of the exhibition and what is the plan? The exhibition is named after the main set of presented pieces: a series of paintings and objects I developed from 2003... View Exhibition

Collage

David Salle Feb 15 – Mar 22, 2014 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Collage , the first solo exhibition of American artist David Salle in Brazil. The show in São Paulo will be an international debut of a new series of 15 collages along with a selection of paintings. It highlights a body of work which... View Exhibition

Teatro Nagô-cartesiano e o Corte Azimutal do Mundo

Thiago Martins de Melo Nov 23 – Dec 20, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present 'Teatro Nagô-cartesiano e o Corte Azimutal do Mundo' Brazilian artist based in Sao Luis Thiago Martins de Melo second solo show at the gallery. Among the Brazilian artists currently practicing in the field of painting, Thiago Martins de Melo applies himself most notably... View Exhibition

Seams & Interruptions

John Stezaker Nov 21 – Dec 21, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Seams and Interruptions, British artist John Stezaker’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. The show brings together over 20 new works from his Masks, Marriage, Tabula Rasa and Film Still Collage series. Stezaker bought his first film still in 1973 and has spent the... View Exhibition

Palavra e pedra solta não têm volta

Mariana Castillo Deball Nov 21 – Dec 21, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of the artist Mariana Castillo Deball at the gallery. In this exhibition, Castillo Deball touches a series of questions related to printing, drawing, and sculpture; attempts to make a perceptual experience last as a trace, a memory, an image... View Exhibition

Vendas de sorvete provocam ataques de tubarão

Roberto Winter Nov 21 – Dec 21, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação By the end of the 19th century, during the transition period known as the Industrial Revolution, the eight-hour day movement emerged in England. Its main demand was the reduction of the workday to eight hours (at a time when working ten to sixteen hours a day was the norm). According... View Exhibition

Do Avesso

Paulo Monteiro Sep 28 – Nov 19, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação The recent exhibition of Paulo Monteiro is one of his most inventive. The artist unfolds the questions of his work in different means and absorbs new meanings from the ungovernable paste with which he has been working for years. Many of the canvases are almost monochromatic, made of a thick... View Exhibition

Antena

Luis Gispert Aug 10 – Sep 14, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Antena , Cuban-American artist Luis Gispert’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Through photographs that have a close technical connection to his sculptures and ready-mades, the exhibition portrays his obsession with the Caribbean modernism, the Black Power movement in America and the correlation of... View Exhibition

Sounds of Fucking, Sounds of Dying

Michael Dean Aug 10 – Sep 5, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present English artist Michael Dean’s first exhibition in Brazil, Sounds of Fucking, Sounds of Dying . The exhibition gathers nearly fifteen sculptures and marks the opening of the gallery’s new space in Vila Romana. Occupying the space with an almost megalithic solemnity, Dean’s sculptures... View Exhibition

Gringo

Pedro Wirz Aug 10 – Sep 14, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação Gringo marks the first solo presentation of Pedro Wirz in the country. Born and raised in Brazil, he left his native São Paulo eight years ago to pursue an art education in Europe. Curious to reconnect with the story and origins of his Swiss paternal grandfather, from whom he inherited... View Exhibition

Noite Azul Elétrico

Group Exhibition Jun 22 – Jul 27, 2013 São Paulo, Consolação The Night. The exhibition takes place from the 22nd of June to the 27th of July. Precisely during the southern hemisphere’s winter solstice. The period when the nights are longer and the days consequently shorter. The nights are perfect to tell a story, to wander rudderlessly, like a ship, to... View Exhibition