SP-Arte Rotas 2025
For SP-Arte Rotas 2025, Luciana Brito Galeria has curated a selection of works that reflect the most recent research of its represented artists, with particular emphasis on the relevance of their discourses to contemporary Latin American art. The exhibition features works by Afonso Tostes (1965, Brazil), Antonio Pichillá (1982, Guatemala), Caio Reisewitz (1967, Brazil), Campana (Fernando Campana 1961–2022, Brazil; Humberto Campana 1953, Brazil), Delson Uchôa (1956, Brazil), Iván Navarro (1972, Chile), Gabriela Machado (1960, Brazil), Liliana Porter (1941, Argentina), Rafael Carneiro (1985, Brazil), and Regina Silveira (1939, Brazil).
Brazilian artist Afonso Tostes works with wood not only for its formal qualities but also as a way of engaging with values related to sustainability and the environment. These same concerns appear in the work of Delson Uchôa, who emphasizes materiality through the artisanal process of his paintings, incorporating natural fibers native to his home region in northeastern Brazil. Mexican artist Bosco Sodi likewise employs artisanal methods to create textured surfaces on canvas using materials of natural origin, such as pigments, sawdust, fibers, wood, and earth.
Caio Reisewitz uses photography to examine human intervention and its social and political consequences, whether in natural landscapes or built environments. Iván Navarro, in turn, draws on distant memories to critique the history of his home country, Chile, and the lingering scars of the Pinochet dictatorship. Guatemalan history and culture are similarly honored in the work of Antonio Pichillá, who employs traditional weaving techniques passed down by his ancestors – particularly the women.
With a more introspective approach, the works of Gabriela Machado and Humberto Campana (Estúdio Campana) evoke accumulated repertoires of personal experience through painting and drawing, respectively. Rafael Carneiro’s painting, meanwhile, inhabits the threshold between figuration and abstraction, reflecting not only the artist’s growing maturity in his recent work but also the significance of the material research carried out by his factory, Joules & Joules, which has been revolutionizing the paint market in Brazil.
The gallery is also presenting works by Regina Silveira and Liliana Porter, two leading figures in the development of experimental practices in visual art across Latin America. Both are showing works that represent key aspects of their investigations in recent years.
