ARCOMadrid 2025: Booth 7B16
Luciana Brito Galeria is pleased to announce its participation in ARCOMadrid, one of the foremost contemporary art fairs in Europe. For the 2025 edition, running from March 5 to 9, the gallery has selected works that reflect the importance of artistic research and its creative processes. In this selection, the gallery highlights the historical legacy of Geraldo de Barros (1923–1998, Brazil), Regina Silveira (1939, Brazil), and Waldemar Cordeiro (1925, Italy – 1973, Brazil). Rare works by these artists will be shown alongside those by Analivia Cordeiro (1954, Brazil), Antonio Pichillá (1982, Guatemala), Bosco Sodi (1970, Mexico), Caio Reisewitz (1967, Brazil), Gabriela Machado (1960, Brazil), Iván Navarro (1972, Chile), Rafael Carneiro (1985, Brazil) and Raphael Zarka (1977, France).
Throughout her 60-year career, Regina Silveira has remained at the forefront of research on perception and visual representation, primarily by investigating the principles of perspective and three-dimensionality. Works from the series In Absentia (1980s) reveal how the artist was already manipulating the perspectival codes used in visual representations, in this case simulating absent objects. The historical studies of this series illustrate the steps the artist took toward her final objective, at a time when such work was done without technological assistance, carried out with brush and paint in the physical space. One of the versions presented at the fair, M.D. (Marcel Duchamp), was first shown to the public in 1983 during the 17th Bienal de São Paulo. Another significant work by Regina Silveira, Quimera, had its first version presented at Galeria Luciana Brito in 2004, in an exhibition held in parallel to that year’s Bienal de São Paulo. This installation demonstrates the artist’s ability to play with our perception through a metalinguistic process involving light and shadow. A comprehensive retrospective of Regina Silveira’s oeuvre is currently being held at La Virreina Centre de La Imatge in Barcelona.
Like Regina Silveira, both Geraldo de Barros and Waldemar Cordeiro were major figures in the Brazilian artistic avant-garde. Their work proved decisive in establishing Brazilian visual arts within the contemporary scene. Geraldo de Barros’s multifaceted oeuvre is represented at the fair by more than 20 pieces that exemplify his most significant investigations, such as photographs from the Fotoforma series (1940–1950). The gallery will present a diptych from this series – shown here for the first time – which reveals the creative processes behind these works, as the original image can be compared with the final result. The selection also features artworks from the artist’s concretist period, alongside pieces from the Sobras series (1996–98), his final research project, and furniture pieces produced by the emblematic Unilabor cooperative factory that operated from 1954 to 1967 in Brazil. A key figure in the same period as Geraldo de Barros and one of his collaborators, Waldemar Cordeiro stands as a central figure of the concrete movement. Paintings and drawings representative of this period are presented together with his trailblazing works in computer art, another field that Cordeiro pioneered.
The show will also feature historical works by Analivia Cordeiro. The series “0°‹–›45°” (1974) belongs to her groundbreaking research in video and computer dance, now recognized as a precursor to the music video. This work provides insight into our evolving perception of space-time, reflecting both the digital world of today and that of the 1970s, when technology began showing its influence on social life.
The legacy of these artists paved the way for current research. Artists like Antonio Pichillá and Bosco Sodi are presenting works using textiles and weaving to give voice to their cultures and ancestral heritage, while Iván Navarro is showing luminous sculptures that use technology to signal contemporary challenges and evoke historical memory. Similarly, Caio Reisewitz is showing photographs that express his concerns about politics and the environment. In another realm, the gallery’s selection for the show features paintings by Gabriela Machado and Rafael Carneiro, demonstrating how their works complement each other and how these artists operate at the boundary between figuration and abstraction.
