This set of works was specially selected to present an overview of the year 2023 at Luciana Brito Galeria, reaffirming the trajectory of its represented artists. In addition to relevant institutional projects, the gallery has been active with its own programming that included nine exhibition projects, ending the year with the group show Primavera Silenciosa [Silent Spring]. Along with Brazilian artists Afonso Tostes, Caio Reisewitz, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Delson Uchôa, Gabriela Machado and Waldemar Cordeiro, the gallery is also presenting works by Marina Abramovic, Bosco Sodi, Iván Navarro, Jorge Pardo, Antonio Pichillá, and Manuel Chavajay.
Curated by the Chilean Alexia Tala, the exhibition Primavera Silenciosa [Silent Spring] is an ambitious project featuring works by Latin American artists, aiming to convey to the public the significance of the indigenous worldview in relationship with the environment. In this context, artists such as Antonio Pichillá and Manuel Chavajay present works that incorporate elements of contemporaneity while reclaiming their Mayan Tz’utujil indigenous ancestries. Revisiting its 2023 programming, the gallery is presenting works by Afonso Tostes that were part of the show Ajuntamentos [Joinings], a project that was continued later at the Iberê Camargo Foundation, in Porto Alegre. In producing the works for that show, the artist used materials that would otherwise have been discarded, repurposing them to create paintings from the remnants of his studio production process. For his part, Bosco Sodi reused old coffee bean shipping bags as his canvas, on which he painted a monumental depiction of the sun.
In 2023, the gallery also held a show that marked Delson Uchôa’s return to the gallery’s roster of artists after more than ten years. The featured artworks summarize the result of unprecedented research, in which the artist blends traditional geometric patterns of the Brazilian Northeast with the constructivist planimetry of the Bauhaus, using plant fibers in the composition of the works. Concurrently, recalling one Brazil’s most significant artists, the gallery is presenting a set of works from the Geometria Intuitiva [Intuitive Geometry] series by Waldemar Cordeiro. This series represents an important phase of Cordeiro’s career, in which he still espoused the appeal to the constructivist aesthetic but abandoned the precision of rulers and compasses to adhere to a freer drawing and colors. The gallery is also showing a historic installation by Marina Abramovic, in a tribute to the Serbian artist, who is currently presenting her first major exhibition in England at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Complementing the selection, the gallery is also featuring works by Caio Reisewitz, an artist who occupied all of the gallery’s spaces at the beginning of the year with the exhibition Mundo do Meio [World in Between]. In this project, the artist presented an overview of his more than twenty years of research concerning the representativity of architecture. During the fair, the public will also be able to see works by Jorge Pardo, and Iván Navarro as well as by Gabriela Machado, the latest addition to the gallery’s lineup of artists.
