To welcome the year 2023, the gallery’s exhibition calendar begins in February with the Collection Exhibition. These are paintings, sculptures, and photographs by some of the artists we represent, such as Amilcar de Castro, Bruno Cançado, Cadu, and Nelson Leirner.

Amilcar de Castro, one of the most important Brazilian sculptors, integrates the exhibition with a 130x160cm painting on canvas. Amilcar didn’t consider himself a painter. According to him, Matisse was a painter, who saw the world through colors. He was a sculptor and, therefore, saw the world through shapes. His works on canvas are called drawings, often done in a single gesture. In words: “Sculpture is structure, constructive matter. It has kinship, in my way of thinking, with architecture, and is closer to construction, to spatial organization.”

In this sense, possible to bring the relationship between sculpture and architecture to the work of one of the newest artists represented, Bruno Cançado, who participates with a wall work made entirely of concrete. The artist’s research intersects architecture, ecology, and epistemology. Based on the empirical knowledge of building – be it vernacular architecture or industrial scale construction – his work culminates in a mixture of temporalities and elements, ranging from the natural to the manufactured, from the handmade to the erudite.

Who has also just joined the body of artists is Cadu, and for his first collection exhibition, we selected the work Craca Ganga Arapuca IV. The work is the continuation of the sculptural projects made in coauthorship with jeweler and artist Virgilio Bahde since 2019. The title features terms from mining, marine life, and the name of the indigenous pyramidal traps used to capture birds. We are facing the improbable cultivation, through carving and metallurgy, of animal, vegetable, and telluric possibilities, which confuse the eye by the coexistence of the kingdoms it integrates.

Nelson Leirner is a multimedia artist who has done a bit of everything, using the strategy of appropriation, simulation, and assemblage. His work alludes to some themes that are part of the imaginary of Brazilian culture.

Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4

Rua das Acácias, 104 – Gávea

Opening: February 11, 2023

Exhibit until: March 10, 2023

Monday to Friday: 10 AM to 7 PM

Saturday: 12h to 16h