Upcoming
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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 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 powerful artistic poetics over 75 years. Quase mapa... View Exhibition -
La rose de Paris
Heidi Bucher Nov 28, 2024 – Jan 31, 2025 Paris The House’s Skin Swiss artist Heidi Bucher (born Adelheid Hildegard Müller, in Winterthur, Switzerland) was part of a wave of active avant-garde women artists of the 1970s, who then somewhat fell into obscurity until their relatively late rediscovery.1 Bucher’s recognition truly came with the major retrospective Metamorphoses, organized by the... View Exhibition
Past
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Teatro Nagô-cartesiano e o Corte Azimutal do Mundo
Thiago Martins de Melo Nov 23 – Dec 20, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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, Barra Funda 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 African... View Exhibition -
Sounds of Fucking, Sounds of Dying
Michael Dean Aug 10 – Sep 5, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 in... View Exhibition -
Gringo
Pedro Wirz Aug 10 – Sep 14, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 show Jun 22 – Jul 27, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 -
We have everything, but that’s all we have
Runo Lagomarsino May 4 – Jun 15, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present We have everything, but that’s all we have. Swedish artist based in São Paulo, Runo Lagomarsino’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. From the first moment I thought about this text or, more precisely, about a text, not this one, but one that... View Exhibition -
Conservatory
Maaike Schoorel May 4 – Jun 15, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Conservatorio (Conservatory), the first solo exhibition of Maaike Schoorel in collaboration with curator Carolyn H Drake in São Paulo. Conservatory brings together an entire new body of work dedicated to female archetypes and mythical figures; Eve, Gaia, Circe and the Odalisque. Through the... View Exhibition -
Phasmides
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Apr 6 – 27, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present Phasmides, Catalan artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's second solo show at the gallery. His new body of work explores ideas of drawing, abstraction, geometry, corporality and immateriality. At the heart of the exhibition is Phasmides, a 16mm film that follows a family of stick... View Exhibition -
On Sociology (The Civilization of Speculation)
Stefan Bruggemann Apr 6 – 27, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann’s first exhibition in Brazil. The exhibition will take place in partnership with Pivô, an artist-run project space in Oscar Niemeyer’s landmark Copan building in downtown São Paulo. On Sociology (The Civilization of Speculation) expands on the artist’s longstanding interest... View Exhibition -
Disorder | Composition of Voice
Falke Pisano Apr 6 – 27, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to announce Dutch artist Falke Pisano's first exhibition at the gallery. The artist has developed a new installation as part of her current cycle of works entitled The Body in Crisis (2011). The installation, which breaks up the space of the East Room, consists of... View Exhibition -
David Adamo Mar 2 – 23, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present American artist David Adamo’s first exhibition in Brazil. The exhibition will take place in partnership with Pivô an artist-run project space in Oscar Niemeyer’s landmark Copan building in downtown São Paulo. Adamo is known for his humorous and personable approach to sculpture, which... View Exhibition
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Denominador Comum
Fernando Marques Penteado Feb 2 – Mar 2, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda f.marquespenteado’s solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DM is a testament to the passage of the artist’s time. The works on view evoke hand-made embroidery – the medium of choice in his series common denominator. The exteremely detailed nature of the stiches of the embroideries are the result of long,... View Exhibition
