Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
For the 2024 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, Luciana Brito Galeria is presenting works that reflect the core research of its represented artists while also pointing to new paths and contexts they are currently exploring. The artists are: Antonio Pichillá (1982, Guatemala), Bosco Sodi (1970, Mexico), Caio Reisewitz (1967, Brazil), Estúdio Campana (Brazil), Iván Navarro (1972, Chile), Geraldo de Barros (1923–1998, Brazil), Leandro Erlich (1973, Argentina), Liliana Porter (1941, Argentina), Marina Abramovic (1946, Yugoslavia), Regina Silveira (1939, Brazil), Rob Wynne (1948, USA), and Waldemar Cordeiro (1925, Italy – 1973, Brazil).
Three of Brazil's most important artists, Regina Silveira, Geraldo de Barros, and Waldemar Cordeiro (1925, Italy – 1973, Brazil), are represented through historical works that are essential for understanding each of their artistic repertoires. By Geraldo de Barros, the gallery is presenting works from the Fórmicas series (1980s), one of his most emblematic investigations, focused on the aim of democratizing art through design using industrial production methods. The gallery also shows works from Regina Silveira's series A arte de desenhar (1980), in which, like Geraldo de Barros, she used technical design to conceptualize visual representation. This investigation gave rise to several other works involving the representation of hands, including Dividing Line (2019), also presented at the fair. By Waldemar Cordeiro, the gallery is showing some of his works in the field of computer art, including A Mulher que Não É B.B. (1971) and Derivadas de uma imagem: Transformação em Grau 1 e 0 (1969– 1970). These were pioneering works, in Brazil and worldwide, investigating the use of computers to create visual art. Works by Geraldo de Barros and Waldemar Cordeiro are part of important North American collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), and Fontanals Art Foundation. Works by Waldemar Cordeiro are also being featured at the 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
For this occasion, Luciana Brito Galeria is also presenting some new miniature installations by Liliana Porter. This series aptly conveys the essence of the artist's work, which uses tiny objects and figures to stage surreal situations. These scenes often reflect the artist's subtle humor while they also spur the viewer to ponder the human condition and the passage of time. And Liliana’s fellow Argentine artist Leandro Erlich likewise uses signs of everyday life, but for a different purpose: to explore our perception and senses, as in the installation Order of Importance (2019), which was part of Art Basel Miami Beach's programming and inspired the sculpture Concrete Coral (2024). The gallery is also presenting a new work by Chilean artist Iván Navarro: Zodiac Constellations (2024), which continues the artist's research into constellations by combining painting and luminous components to explore the zodiac universe.
Another iconic work is Boituva (2008) by Caio Reisewitz, which already signaled the artist's interest in themes related to nature and the environment. In this photo, he captured the red earth in painterly style. Also for the fair, the gallery is showing Marina Abramovic's work Jump (2022), where she interprets the role of Tosca, one of the heroines she performed in her opera Seven Deaths of Maria Callas. The costume was designed by Italian fashion designer Riccardo Tisci. Estúdio Campana, which is currently presenting the exhibition Eu escuto at the gallery, is featuring a set of new pieces, while Mexican artist Bosco Sodi is represented with one of his well-known material paintings. For his part, Antonio Pichillá is presenting Abuela (2016), a work in fabric and wool, while Rob Wynne is showing his works in poured glass Black Line 1 (2024) and ! (2023), which were featured in his first solo show in Brazil, Always Sometimes, at Luciana Brito Galeria in 2024.
