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Ao redor da distância
Paulo Monteiro Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda “His creations deal with the abysmal substance of what is ultra-common, which we all can feel in our sinews. However, he does not go for representations; his subject is not the things , but the potential of life itself , that force which precedes everything that exists. Each move he... View Exhibition -
kortinas
ektor garcia Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda e ktor g arcia is always work ing . D rawn to handmade, labor-intensive processes , the artist took on the practice of crocheting over two decades ago as a self- taught skill. The ability to work alone with a single hook anywhere and anytime was particularly captivating for garcia... View Exhibition -
quase mapa, quase mancha
Anna Bella Geiger Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda Click here to open the exhibition map quase mapa, quase mancha [almost map, almost stain] Anna Bella Geiger’s oeuvre is vast. It is a body of work permeated by pioneering processes and experiences in the field of art that have led the way, building and consolidating... View Exhibition
Past
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Sefirot
Mimi Lauter Aug 24 – Nov 9, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mimi Lauter Sefirot In Sefirot, Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter, known for her work in oil and soft pastels, produces a body of work deeply attuned to concepts of the Tree of Life observed by Kabbalistic mysticism. The Kabbalists believed there are ten creative forces that bridge the infinite and... View Exhibition -
ARDOR AND WRATH
Fernando Marques Penteado Aug 24 – Nov 9, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present ARDOR AND WRATH, a solo exhibition by artist Fernando Marques Penteado . Returning to the image of a home, Marques Penteado surveys a wide array of symbols that have been kept and cherished in domestic surroundings to cast protection on their inhabitants. Spanning... View Exhibition -
They Early Doors
Michael Dean Aug 24 – Nov 9, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Click here to book your visit. Michael Dean presents They Early Doors, a solo show in São Paulo exhibited across Mendes Wood DM and Casa Iramaia . Can the experience of a scene be described as an account of syntax? For artist Michael Dean, the possibilit ies within such a... View Exhibition -
arrastar chãos, juntar imbigos
Josi May 25 – Aug 10, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is a process that unfolds in the movement of gestures, in the creations operated by hand, and thus, make themselves felt as hands. They collect the grains of earth, which come together and disperse, sticking to where they pass or dissipate. They pass through the sieve, remain in the... View Exhibition -
Rumors
Ebecho Muslimova May 25 – Aug 10, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Rumors and Whispers is a two-part presentation of Ebecho Muslimova’s recent series of paintings across Mendes Wood DM’s São Paulo gallery and Bernheim Gallery in Zürich. A transatlantic game of telephone, the exhibition first opens in Brazil with Muslimova’s Rumors suite, followed two weeks later by Whispers in Switzerland, each... View Exhibition -
Funduras
Solange Pessoa Apr 2 – May 11, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda O mundo – este arrepio concêtrico : olho fixo por onde toda a matéria contempla o espaço descentrado. The world – this concentric shiver: A fixed eye through which all matter contemplates decentered space. — Herberto Helder In Funduras , Solange Pessoa presents an unexpected quality of minerals: Weightlessness. The... View Exhibition -
Ode to Twisted Gods
Pol Taburet Feb 8 – Mar 16, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Ô paysage de diamant violenté de mains d’acide […] » 1 Anthony Phelps, Motifs pour le temps saisonnier , 1976 Culture is not monolithic; it is a muddy silt that carries with it the stories of great ecstasy of our ancestors as well as their most tragic ones, one... View Exhibition -
It's the way home that moves us away
Carla Zaccagnini & Runo Lagomarsino Feb 8 – Mar 16, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Crossings, c omings and goings, departures, returns, and what happens in between, are intertwined into Carla Zaccagnini’s and Runo Lagomarsino’s personal lives and respective works. This exhibition itself is a sort of path , where their trajectories cross and then bifurcate if only to meet again … It is the... View Exhibition -
With Others in Mind
Coco Fusco Nov 25, 2023 – Jan 24, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is please to present Coco Fusco’s first solo exhibition in São Paulo, “With Others in Mind”. The exhibition aims to highlight Coco Fusco's rigorous exploration into the erasure and metamorphosis of cultural identities, particularly in societies shaped by the aftereffects of colonialism. By different mediums such as... View Exhibition -
Nascituras
Rosana Paulino Nov 25, 2023 – Jan 24, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Nascituras: someone or something yet to be born. The decision to name the exhibition of an artist as prominent as Rosana Paulino Nascituras (nascencies) may seem strange. After all, what could this concept refer to in light of one of the most substantial, striking careers in so-called Brazilian art? A... View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 4, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda Linhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian aphorism “deus escreve certo por linhas tortas”, which literally translates to “god writes straight with crooked lines” and metaphorically to... 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 -
Some Eyes
Alma Allen May 27 – Aug 12, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Some Eyes , the first solo exhibition of the celebrated US artist and sculptor Alma Allen to take at the gallery’s Barra Funda space in Sao Paulo. Additionally to this being his first exhibition with the gallery in Sao Paulo, it is also... View Exhibition -
Human Nature
Alvaro Barrington Mar 30 – May 13, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 'I've been in Brazil for nearing two weeks now and I'm two weeks away from my first show in South America. It would be an understatement to say that the region has given me so much. I think less of nation-states more like the notion of regional cousins. My first... View Exhibition -
Signo
Antonio Obá Mar 30 – May 13, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda Antonio Obá considers the drawing as a living thought. The artist returns to the São Paulo venue with an exhibition devoted exclusively to his works on paper - 'an exercise in letting language emerge,' according to Obá. The use of drawing, recurrent in his work and also in his relationship... View Exhibition -
Esfíngico Frontal
Group Show Feb 11 – Mar 11, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda There is a mystery behind everything. There is a mystery that comes and goes, circulating through our veins, through our viscera, between our fingertips and through every thread of our hair. The same mystery exists in everything that surrounds us: from the earth’s surface to the spheres dancing in the... View Exhibition -
Butterfly Joint
Kentaro Kawabata Feb 11 – Mar 11, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present – at its gallery space in São Paulo – Kentaro Kawabata’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Titled Butterfly Joint, the show brings together a poignant body of works produced by the Japanese artist, spanning four series of porcelain sculptures that are a testament... View Exhibition -
Mimosa tenuiflora
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Nov 19, 2022 – Jan 28, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala, 1978) in São Paulo. The exhibit, entitled Mimosa Tenuiflora, brings together video works, paintings, and sculptures – scenarios pervaded by an atmosphere of dream and fantasy, yet communicating an awaken world. Mimosa tenuiflora,... View Exhibition -
Big paintings
Giangiacomo Rossetti Nov 19, 2022 – Jan 28, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda My friend Scott introduced me to Irakli and Dea. He met them at a party in Tbilisi and they told him they were moving to NYC. I needed someone helping me to move some of my paintings from my house to a new studio I just rented and Scott gave... View Exhibition -
Noites de cetim
Paula Siebra Aug 28 – Nov 11, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is dusk on the beach. For a few minutes, the sky looks like ember before cooling down into a blueish black. The landscape eases down, keeping the memory of the day’s past, like an enchantment. Paula Siebra’s Satin Nights are memories of the heat coming from the sun that... View Exhibition -
Creatures
Kasper Bosmans Aug 27 – Nov 5, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Creatures, Kasper Bosmans’ first solo exhibition in South America, in its new gallery space in Sao Paulo. Known for his multifaceted and divergent approach to art making, with works that range from sculpture and installation to painting and drawing, Bosmans’ practice is a... View Exhibition -
Futurismo
Group Show Aug 20 – Nov 5, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM in collaboration with Peres Projects is proud to present FUTURISMO, a group show with new works by Dalton Gata, Paolo Salvador, Manuel Solano, and Richard Kennedy. This exhibition balances multiple temporalities as the artists explore and weave together themes such as transformation and emergence with memory and... View Exhibition -
In my dreams, I kill him every night
Sanam Khatibi Jun 4 – Aug 6, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Sanam Khatibi’s work explores notions of animality and the primal impulses that we all share. At the core of her practice is a questioning of our relationship with power structures, and the duality of triumph and failure. The recurrent themes that feature in her work are chaos, destruction, excess, loss... View Exhibition -
Inevitable Behavior
Kristy Luck Jun 4 – Aug 6, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition by artist Kristy Luck at our São Paulo gallery space. Contemplative spaces are not defined on their own – they are, first and foremost, generated by an act of creation. What guides the creation of this space, in the... View Exhibition -
5 Paintings
Marina Perez Simao Apr 2 – May 29, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Almost-Landscapes There is, it would seem, a paradox between the name of the current exhibition and what is revealed in the works. On the one hand, we have the laconic title 5 Paintings and, on the other hand, we have a series of works in which the generosity of... View Exhibition -
Frozen Gestures
Lynda Benglis Apr 2 – May 21, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition of the seminal American artist Lynda Benglis at its São Paulo gallery. Benglis has played an important role in contemporary art through her innovative use of materials and continued refusal to submit to aesthetic orthodoxies. Benglis’s exhibition in São... View Exhibition -
Ruído
Letícia Ramos Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda -If you see a big sphere you are probably in danger. In 2013, a mysterious explosion was heard in the far north of Siberia. People living 100km from the site reported seeing the sky glaring. Months later scientists found a new 40 x 30m deep crater in an isolated region... View Exhibition -
In Passing
Miranda Fengyuan Zhang Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the Shanghai-born and New York-based artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features a group of Zhang’s recently completed hand woven paintings. Zhang’s textile works explore the idea of abstract landscape in relation to the memories.... View Exhibition -
Interspecific Bodies
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Interspecific Bodies, the first exhibition of British-French duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel in Brazil, bringing together a series of new works, including nine pieces in carved wood, and one sculpture in marble. For over twenty years Dewar and Gicquel have explored and... View Exhibition -
Manikin
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda In Vladimir Nabokov’s Symbols and Signs (1948) - a short story dear to Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - an institutionalized mental patient suffers from “Referential Mania”, a rare malady whereby the afflicted person believes that everything is conspiring against him through an intricate language of symbols and signs. In a sense, Manikin... View Exhibition -
Noite
Luiz Roque Nov 18, 2021 – Jan 29, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda The stuff that dreams are made of After two decades creating moving images, the new forms presented by Luiz Roque emerge from clay. The ceramics resemble accessories, items to be worn or attached to the body, power objects. Their zoomorphic outlines evoke past worlds or a future where plastic had... View Exhibition -
After the Stone
Paulo Pires Nov 18, 2021 – Feb 5, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda The gravity of the carved matter calls us forth. The sculpted stone sets its magnetic field via a sensitive thread between its primordial condition and the artist’s action. Revealed before our eyes, the forms allow us to see bodies and movements in a singular ecology of minor gestures: an introspective... View Exhibition -
À bença meus padrinhos
Wallace Pato Nov 18, 2021 – Jan 21, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present its first solo show by artist Wallace Pato. The exhibition brings together recent paintings that unravel the core of the artist’s research as a chronicler of carioca samba and the Brazilian working-class suburbs. Pato is a self-taught artist who began his... View Exhibition -
Proscenium
Victor Bengtsson Oct 21 – Nov 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Proscenium –- Danish artist Victor Bengtsson's first solo show in Brazil. The exhibition brings together five paintings made in São Paulo, mapping relationships between mythology, bodily fluids, and mental states. Bengtsson uses jute as material support for his canvases in an attempt to... View Exhibition -
Lágrima
Sonia Gomes Aug 21 – Sep 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present a solo show by artist Sonia Gomes, our latest exhibition at the Rua Consolação space in São Paulo. The current exhibition brings together five works produced during the 2020 pandemic. During her career, spanning 40 years, Gomes has twisted steel structures with the... View Exhibition -
Assum Preto
Lucas Arruda Aug 21 – Oct 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition -
flowers and holes (glory)
Adriano Costa Aug 21 – Sep 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda ‘Homem Burro’ [Dumb Man], a bronze sculpture by Adriano Costa, is pure synthesis. In this ‘small item of adoration, there is imbalance, light and a somber being’. The differences between these states also reflect the impermeable conditions that reign over the artist’s sculptures, drawings and paintings. Costa acts through discrepancy... View Exhibition -
AKEWANI, Prece da Terra
Hariel Revignet Aug 21 – Sep 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda AKEWANI, Earth’s Prayer The poetics of Hariel Revignet draw on the construction of time-spaces able to activate cures for bodies that official narratives have configured as minorities, making use of affect as its process and/or practical action. As such, it is paramount to highlight that the artist’s research focuses on... View Exhibition -
What Am I Doing Here
Zhenya Machneva Jun 26 – Jul 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda What am I doing at the place I don’t belong to? What am I speaking about with the site that never will be mine? What am I trying to find measuring step by step the imaginary of the real world? – These could be the questions everyone faces when meeting... View Exhibition -
Varda Caivano
Varda Caivano Jun 19 – Jul 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Varda Caivano's first exhibition at the gallery’s Sao Paulo space. The exhibition brings together recent paintings andexplores the artist's evolving practice of abstraction. Caivano investigates moments of light and image, almost like an archeologist exploring fossilized rocks. Her work is at... View Exhibition -
In the Thickets of Unexplored Places
Vojtěch Kovařík Jun 19 – Jul 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda For Czech artist, Vojtěch Kovařík, iconography and mythology are fundamental to his work. His large-format, forceful and vividly colored compositions result in impactful paintings that evoke the strength of sculpture. His herculean figures are contorted, seemingly defeated by the frame of the canvas, flaunting their blue, green, and yellow flesh... View Exhibition -
The sun has not yet burned off the dew
Cassi Namoda May 3 – Jun 12, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Cassi Namoda, ‘The sun has not yet burned off the dew’ in Brazil. The Mozambican native artist narrates haunting tableaus of transience, transformation, and silent psychic rumination. Interweaving global spiritualism, religious aphorism, and patchwork tales of... View Exhibition -
Male Nudes
a salon from 1800 to 2021 Mar 13 – Apr 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the group exhibition Male Nudity: a salon from 1800 to 2021. Intersecting representations of the male nude, the show proposes to reflect on the concepts of copy, imitation, image, time and decline. According to conventional historiography, the first representation of nudity in the... View Exhibition -
All About the Animal
Maaike Schoorel Mar 13 – Jun 19, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Maaike Schoorel’s second exhibition in Brazil. All about the animal brings together recent paintings which reflect on nature and illusion through light. Schoorel begins her paintings through photographing landscapes, diluting the shapes found in her images into layers of light. Pandas,... View Exhibition -
Arrebalde
Paula Siebra Nov 30, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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 Show Jun 26 – Sep 1, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Show Feb 6 – Apr 30, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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 Show Nov 23, 2019 – Jan 24, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda View Exhibition -
Sentinela
Antonio Obá Apr 4 – May 18, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 -
Questão de Ordem
Deyson Gilbert Feb 9 – Mar 20, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Show Feb 9 – Mar 20, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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
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Daniel Steegmann Mnagrané Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition
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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 -
TRECHERO
Paulo Nazareth Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, 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 -
No element, however has the final word in the construction of the future
Runo Lagomarsino Apr 7 – May 17, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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
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rivieras___bags___scarves___alps
Fernando Marques Penteado Feb 23 – Mar 25, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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... View Exhibition -
Polyethylene-Insulated Smear
Nina Canell Nov 25, 2017 – Jan 30, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda '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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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. The... View Exhibition -
20xx
Neïl Beloufa Sep 27 – Nov 12, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 -
Hall
Luiz Roque Aug 12 – Sep 16, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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 the... View Exhibition
