Silvia Cintra + Box 4 gallery is pleased to present Área Play, a group exhibition curated and curated and designed by Laercio Redondo and Birger Lipinski. The artists curating this exhibition have brought together some 30 works that somehow follow the same line of thought: a relationship with one of the last works by Hélio Oiticica, whose title gave the exhibition its name. In Área Play, the artist took a small 60x60cm platform covered with hexagonal tiles and moved it to different parts of Rio de Janeiro. The work was left on the ground and on it poetic urban events would emerge, that is, the natural and spontaneous interaction of people and space would take place.

This little-known work by Oiticica is the inspiration and starting point for the exhibition, guiding the selection of works, permeating a multiple reading of works by artists of different generations and their questions that, despite the temporal distance to Hélio’s time, still find correspondences and resonances in our time. In this way, the exhibition also intends to bring together and counterpose issues that remain as an impasse in today’s society. Besides the curatorship, the exhibition design was also designed to emphasize the idea of poetic urban events, since the works will be mounted on two large flexible wooden displays, designed to give uniqueness to each work exhibited, as if they were pieces of a game that interact with the space and interact with the space. interacting with the space and the visitors. Going beyond the exhibition limits of the gallery, on the opening day, those arriving at the exhibition will be welcomed outside by João Modé’s “Vanish” (2005), which, as its title reinforces, will disappear. Every show is permeated by uncertainties and brings different points of view that echo in Hélio’s practice, cross his work, and unsettle us – still in our time.

Laercio Redondo lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and Stockholm, Sweden. His research involves collective memory and its erasure in society, his work is often motivated by the interpretation of specific events related to the city, architecture and historical representations.

Birger Lipinski lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and Stockholm, Sweden. He is an artist and architect with a master’s degree in furniture design from Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. His practice focuses mainly on exhibition design.

Artists:

Aleta Valente, Alexandre Canonico, Alexandre Vogler, Amilcar de Castro, Antonio Dias, Antonio Tarsis, Ascânio MMM, Cildo Meirelles, Cinthia Marcelle, Eloá Carvalho, Ernesto Neto, Felipe Cohen, Fernanda Gomes, Fernando Cocchiarale, Gisele Camargo, Hélio Oiticica, Iole de Freitas, Ivens Machado, João Modé, Laís Myrrha, Laura Lima, Lívia Flores, Lygia Pape, Marepe, Marina Weffort, Monica Nador + Bruno O. + JAMAC, Rafael Alonso, Rafael Bqueer, Rubem Valentim, Runo Lagomarsino, Sonia Andrade, Vivian Caccuri.