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Alvaro Barrington & Chico da Silva
Alvaro Barrington & Chico da Silva Nov 9, 2024 – Feb 28, 2025 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Click here to book your visit. Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Alvaro Barrington & Chico da Silva, an exhibition that places renowned Venezuelan-born contemporary artist Alvaro Barrington (b. 1983) in dialogue with the works of Chico da Silva (1910 – 1985), a Brazilian artist of Ashaninka origin, an... View Exhibition -
Ao redor da distância
Paulo Monteiro Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition -
Anna Bella Geiger
Anna Bella Geiger Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition -
kortinas
ektor garcia Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda e ktor g arcia is always working . 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 then... View Exhibition -
La rose de Paris
Heidi Bucher Nov 28, 2024 – Jan 31, 2025 Paris View Exhibition
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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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Solange Pessoa
Solange Pessoa Nov 16 – Dec 16, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 16 - Dec 16, 2018 For her first solo exhibition in New York, Solange Pessoa (b. 1961) is exhibiting two bodies of work. New ceramic and bronze sculptures from the series Metaflor-Metaflora, from which vegetation and feathers spring forth, as well as the final... View Exhibition -
Nightfall, curated by Erika Verzutti, Fernanda Brenner, and Milovan Farronato
Group Show Nov 7, 2018 – Jan 19, 2019 Brussels Lucas Arruda, Pedro Caetano, Adriano Costa, Paulo Nimer Pjota, Patricia Leite, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Erika Verzutti, Semiha Berksoy, Miriam Cahn, Tony Camargo, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Monster Chetwynd, Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, René Daniëls, Enrico David, Vincent Desiderio, Eliza Douglas, Nicole Eisenman, Bracha L. Ettinger, Celia Hempton, Rodrigo Hernández, Jacqueline de... View Exhibition -
lusco – fusco
Patricia Leite Sep 19 – Oct 12, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 19 - Oct 12, 2018 Patricia Leite’s exhibition lusco-fusco [last light of the day] presents a new body of painting inspired by momentary meetings of darkness and light. Inviting us to grasp the sensation of an object alight, Leite portrays light alive with vibration,... View Exhibition -
Inventory
Paloma Bosquê Sep 6 – Oct 20, 2018 Brussels The thorough selection and handling of materials inform, on a large scale, Paloma Bosquê’s practice. Her delicate three-dimensional compositions are the outcome of empirical processes through which the artist aims to combine, mold and arrange elements from miscellaneous origins, revealing the poetic potential of matter in transformation. In her first... View Exhibition -
Transition
Otobong Nkanga Sep 6 – Oct 20, 2018 Brussels The late Carl Sagan put our existence into perspective when he uttered the famous line “we are made of star-stuff.” Reflecting on her place in the universe, Otobong Nkanga remarks that “I was born into this planet, it was here before I arrived and hopefully it will still be here... View Exhibition -
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 -
Natura Naturans
Group Exhibition Jun 26 – Aug 30, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 26 - Aug 30, 2018 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Natura Naturans, an exhibition which explores the dynamic interplay between nature and creative agency. The diverse group of artists whose work is gathered here, investigate nature beyond a fixed subject or finite... View Exhibition -
Neutral Corner
Lucas Arruda Jun 8 – Jul 20, 2018 Brussels The work of few contemporary artists is able to evoke the sublime and have a tranquilizing effect the way Lucas Arruda paintings do. Where so many seem intent upon obstreperously embodying and conveying the infinite noise of the contemporary, his work has a way of all but shutting it out,... 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 -
Pele de Dentro
Antonio Obá May 1 – Jun 22, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 1 - Jun 22, 2018 The works that Antonio Obá has been developing over the years, a selection of which are in this exhibition, pass through various languages of the visual arts, such as his exquisite drawings that point out the exquisite mastery of... View Exhibition -
Circa MMXVIII Human Landscape
Anna Bella Geiger Apr 18 – May 26, 2018 Brussels Letter: to Anna Bella Geiger The art world today is developing like a territory, a domain with unspoken rules and codes. The artist is hereby imperceptibly deployed as the seeming protagonist of an artistic caravan. The direction is unclear, but the caravan is moving, like a turbulent horde. The artist’s... View Exhibition -
Resistance of a Body
Letícia Ramos Apr 18 – May 26, 2018 Brussels Letícia Ramos is a photographer-scientist, a traveler through the centuries, revisiting the inventions which changed the way we represent the world. Her work is frequently the result of a long process involving the development of devices and techniques to reach a certain goal, and her photographic images are the material... 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 -
Dadamaino
Dadamaino Feb 28 – Apr 24, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York February 28 – April 24, 2018 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Dadamaino’s frst solo exhibition in New York City. Dadamaino (b. Emilia Maino, 1930 – 2004) was a protagonist of the post-war Milanese avant-garde. Though often perceived as a solitary character, she was... 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 -
Olha pro céu, meu amor
Patricia Leite Jan 19 – Apr 7, 2018 Brussels Les idées sont aux choses ce que les constellations sont aux planètes. Walter Benjamin To throw worlds at the world Caetano Veloso To write a text entails a search for words and expressions that are able to elaborate an idea that only exists as an image in one’s mind. From... View Exhibition -
Muebles Manuel
Manuel Raeder Jan 19 – Apr 7, 2018 Brussels Mimolette is a process of the fermentation of ideas. The process consists of holding one’s breath, especially in those moments when one has so many thoughts and ideas that one’s head is about to explode. It is in that moment of almost explosion when the Mimolette effect has its best... View Exhibition