THE Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo will receive the show “Adriana Varejão: Sutures, Fissures, Ruins” from this Saturday (26). The exhibition is the artist’s most comprehensive to date, bringing together, for the first time, more than 60 works created between 1985 and 2022.
Varejão is one of the most powerful Brazilian artists today. Her works are guided by references from different cultures. Cutting, splitting, cutting and fissuring are recurring elements in the artist’s works since 1992.
The exhibition occupies seven rooms at the Pinacoteca and the octagon, and Jochen Volz, director-general of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, is the curator.
Among the works in the show are productions from the 1980s, such as: “A praia”, “O fundo do Mar” and “O Universo”, to unpublished paintings that Varejão produced for this exhibition, such as “Moedor” (2021) and “Ruina 22” (2022). A third highlight of this set is “Ruína Brasilis”, which was in an exhibition in New York in 2021 and was donated by the artist to the Pinacoteca.
Many of these works gained international prominence after their completion, such as “Azulejos” (1988), the first work in which Varejão uses as a reference a panel of Portuguese tiles, found in the cloister of the Convento de São Francisco, in Salvador.
With the importance of this theme for his trajectory, one of the exhibition rooms is dedicated to paintings influenced by Portuguese tiles: the installation “Azulejões” (2000) has 27 canvases measuring 100×100 cm each.
“What is latent for me in this show is the way Adriana Varejão works with painting because, from the beginning, she follows a direction that goes beyond the two-dimensionality of the canvas, using elements that break the material; they are cracks, cuts, leaks that reveal a situation and give it a new meaning, such as the “guts” and “meat” that spill over into many of her works,” says Volz in a statement.
In 1998, Varejão produced the series of the 3 big languages, which will be shown for the first time, side by side: “Language with an X pattern”, “Language with a flower pattern” and “Language with a sinuous pattern”.
The artist has already had her work exhibited in important institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
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Adriana Varejão: Sutures, fissures, ruins
Curator: Jochen Volz Edificio Pinacoteca Luz
Period: 03/26 to 08/01
Praça da Luz 2, São Paulo, SP, 1st floor and Octagon From Wednesday to Monday, from 10 am to 6 pm.
Tickets on the Pinacoteca website: R$ 20 (full price)
Free for children up to 10 years old and people over 60 years old. Saturday, free for everyone.
Source: CNN Brasil
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