Thomaz Farkas | Pictóricos, Coloridos e Modernos

The exhibition Thomaz Farkas: Pictóricos, Coloridos e Modernos consists of two large sections.
As visitors enter the Modernist Room at the beginning of the show, they will find a collection
of around 60 vintage black-and-white photographs, developed and printed by the artist himself
at the peak of his production during the 1940s. This is the largest selection of Thomaz Farkas’s
vintage photographs ever presented to the public, most of them for the first time ever, arranged
chronologically in thematic groups. The first exhibits a set of images of photographic equipment,
taken by the artist as studio exercises, anticipating the group of photographs from the artist’s
pictorial phase, a concept that preceded modern photography by aiming to emulate the aesthetics
of painting, especially with records of natural and urban landscapes, as well as portraits. Next,
we see several significant works that represent the pinnacle of his formal experimentation,
based on the search for new forms of visual expression, the use of innovative techniques, which
utilize unusual angles, natural lighting and attention to the technical possibilities of cameras and
the photographic laboratory, a phase that positioned him as one of the precursors of modern
photography in Brazil. Finally, the exhibition brings together iconic shots by Thomaz Farkas on
the city of Rio de Janeiro, in addition to his surrealist experiments.