April 30th 2025

L’eau rougie de la veine mémoire | Galerie RX, Paris

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March 22nd – December 21rst 2025

The insurgent canvas | Instituo Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto

The term insurgent applies perfectly to the obsession that Brazilian painting has had with the revolutionary impulse since the modernists of 1922. And not just Brazilian, mind you. Let us remeber that the wave of revaluation of painting after the hegemony of conceptual art in the 1970s was the result of a European reaction against the leadership of the United States in the art market after the end of the Second World War, when American geopolitics ended up establishing the country as the center of world art.

In a reactionary movement to value its culture and reclaim its rightful place, Europe found a fresh start in the history of European painting itself in the 1980s, when the artists of the so-called Italian vanguard and the new German expressionists dominated the scene and led artists from all over the world to follow in their footsteps.

The 80s Generation, represented in the exhibition The Insurgent Canvas, is an example of how the European strategy against the predominance of conceptual art ended up echoing in the tropics. Before it, however, other nonconformists used painting for insurrectionary purposes, from the aforementioned modernist generation, which revisited the European cubist canon, to the Brazilian concretes and neoconcretes, who took further the lessons of the Bauhaus and the Ulm School.

Curator Antonio Gonçalves Dias

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March 14th – May 25th 2025

Vilma Eid, In every corner | Instituo Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo

The exhibition is dedicated to the collector and gallery owner Vilma Eid, who over the last forty years has built up a unique collection of works by more than 100 artists, including popular, modern and contemporary artists.

Curated by Ana Roman and Catalina Bergues