Exhibitions

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

Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato

Nov 8, 2019 – Jan 15, 2020 Brussels Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, selected by Giangiacomo Rossetti Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, autodidact painter and straight shooter. He does not have schooling. He does not follow tendencies. He does not belong to churches. He paints as it comes. Amen – Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, 1946 Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present... View Exhibition

Bones of the Men

Giangiacomo Rossetti Nov 8 – Jan 15, 2019 Brussels If we wish to grasp the things reflected, we touch nothing in the end but the mirror. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1881 In Bones of the Men Giangiacomo Rossetti exhibits, amongst other things, paintings of himself. He embeds his own image—and those of some of the people in his life—in a medley... View Exhibition

Paulo Monteiro

Paulo Monteiro Oct 29 – Dec 20, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 29 - Dec 20, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Paulo Monteiro’s first exhibition in New York, bringing together a new body of paintings and sculptures. Monteiro continues his ongoing reconciliation of the dual forms of painting and sculpture by constructing a... View Exhibition

In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day

Paloma Bosquê Sep 11 – Oct 19, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 11 - Oct 19, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day, an exhibition of new work by Paloma Bosquê. Paloma Bosquê is a sculptor who tends to put that talent in service of a wider,... View Exhibition

Two Hands on Earth

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Sep 5 – Oct 26, 2019 Brussels Mendes Wood DM presents Two Hands on Earth, an exhibition of new works by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. Utilizing the gallery’s interior and period features, the show proposes a stage where the interconnectedness of the works and the gallery come into focus. Within this mise-en-scène, Lutz-Kinoy elaborates on his investigation into the... 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

Resilience and Reverberation

Leticia Ramos Jun 27 – Aug 24, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 27 - Aug 24, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Resiliency and Reverberation , the first solo exhibition in the United States by Brazilian artist Leticia Ramos. Her complex images synthesize technique and illusion by exploring the limits of analog photography. For... View Exhibition

Rubem Valentim

Jun 8 – Aug 3, 2019 Brussels Following the exhibitions in our São Paulo and New York spaces, Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present a solo show of iconographic paintings and totems by Brazilian artist Rubem Valentim (Salvador, 1922 – São Paulo, 1991). Comprised of works made between the 1960s and the late 1980s, Valentim’s... View Exhibition

The Silence of Color

Sonia Gomes Jun 8 – Aug 3, 2019 Brussels Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure to announce The Silence of Color, Sonia Gomes’ first solo exhibition outside of Brazil. Gomes’ work binds together cultural movements and traditions that are intrinsically linked to the affirmation of memory, identity and the transformative power of creation in situations of vulnerability and invisibility.... 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

Hudson Bathers

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Apr 30 – Jun 15, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Apr 30 - Jun 15, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Hudson Bathers , an exhibition of new work by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. For his first show at Mendes Wood DM in New York, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy fills the gallery with canvases that line the... View Exhibition

[A] LA FLEUR DE LA PEAU

Paulo Nazareth Apr 24 – Jun 1, 2019 Brussels On my mother’s saints: colonial cartographies and urgent epistemologies Throughout the journey of Paulo Nazareth’s [A] LA FLEUR DE LA PEAU it is impossible not to evoke the abyss metaphor suggested by Martiniquais writer Édouard Glissant in Poetics of Relations. The image of the ship operates as a... 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

Francesco João

Mar 15 – Apr 15, 2019 Brussels TENSIONAL ABSTRACTION In 1983, American public television network PBS aired the first episode of The Joy of Painting, a half-hour instructional television show hosted by painter and television personality Bob Ross. In this show, which counted 403 episodes streamed every week from 1983 to 1994, Ross delivered short and incisive... View Exhibition

Rubem Valentim

Rubem Valentim Feb 27 – Apr 20, 2019 Mendes Wood DM New York is pleased to present an exhibition of iconographic paintings, totems, reliefs, and tapestries by Rubem Valentim. Comprised of works made between 1969 and 1990, this exhibition brings together Valentim’s geometric abstractions which intertwine the modernist rationality of Constructivism with Brazilian popular culture. Valentim’s works are... 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

He Was, First of All, Water

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Jan 26 – Apr 13, 2019 Brussels Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (1978, Guatemala City) creates dream-like images that draw on literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories. His work is playful yet also alludes to tragic or traumatic events connected with contemporary Guatemala, especially the impact of the civil war (1960–1996). Ramírez-Figueroa’s performances and sculptures reference the human body and... View Exhibition

Two Forward, Three Back

Iulia Nistor Jan 26 – Mar 9, 2019 Brussels Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present Two Forward, Three Back, an exhibition of new paintings by Iulia Nistor. In her first solo show in Belgium, the Romanian-born artist features the body of work Pieces of Evidence – oil on wood paintings that share the same format. The exhibition... View Exhibition