Upcoming
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Nocturnal Music
Varda Caivano Jun 27 – Aug 15, 2025 New York Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Nocturnal Music, Varda Caivano’s inaugural New York solo exhibition. Caivano, whose painterly mark is defined by abstraction, experimentation, and studies of light, approaches art as laboratory work where thinking becomes making, with the studio process remaining the most important aspect of her practice.... View Exhibition -
Sweet
Adriano Costa Jun 28 – Aug 9, 2025 Paris View Exhibition -
Blinded by the light
Group exhibition Jul 11 – Aug 30, 2025 Casa da Cultura da Comporta View Exhibition
Past
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Paulo Nimer Pjota
Dec 1 – 22, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curator Gunnar Kvaran writes about Pjota’s practice: Plants, crystals, skulls, flowers, human bodies, fishes, mechanical objects, crabs, body parts, isolated words and phrases float around in a variety of scales and sizes on the surface of Paulo Nimer Pjota’s canvases, seemingly in a haphazard and serendipitous way. His iconography comes... View Exhibition -
Deserto-Modelo
Lucas Arruda Oct 10 – Nov 24, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is excited to present Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist's recent work insists on the genre of landscape painting – a genre that interests him for its openness and the possibility it provides of exploring abstraction within figuration. Many of the paintings... View Exhibition -
Notícias de América
Paulo Nazareth May 12 – Jun 16, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda After a journey of several thousand miles through more than 15 countries in the Americas, Paulo Nazareth returns to Brazil to present Noticias de America [News from the Americas]. Nazareth left Minas Gerais, Brazil in March of 2011 and made his way northward on foot and by bus, arriving inthe... View Exhibition -
Plantation
Adriano Costa May 12 – Jun 16, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is delighted to announce Plantation , Sao Paulo based artist Adriano Costas’s first solo show at the gallery. With Plantation , Costa brings together an array of sculptures in fabric, concrete, metal and plastic, alternately embellishing and denuding his found materials with poetic dexterity. Hisrecent production encompasses diverse... View Exhibition -
Stitch In Time
Sonia Gomes Apr 14 – May 5, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is proud to present the first solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes' new sculptures in cloth and wire. Gathered along the walls and hung from ceiling to floor, the eclectic fabric contortions evoke simultaneously the idea of viscera and the sacred object, mixing expressions of love, domesticity... View Exhibition -
Holzweg
Marina Perez Simão Mar 3 – 23, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is proud to present Holzweg , the second solo show of Marina Simão at the gallery. For the exhibition, the space will be occupied by large and small paintings in iridescent, reflective pigments on superimposed, transparent textiles. The works’ supports range from oriental paper of apparent fragility –... View Exhibition -
Fresta
Patricia Leite Feb 2 – 25, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda At first, there seems to be few less inspiring places to write about Patricia Leite’s paintings then a village in the outskirts of Cologne, Germany. The temperature hovers around zero degrees celsius, the landscape littered with dead trees, houses and buildings arranged in a repetitive sequence, in shades of white,... View Exhibition
