MIGUEL RIO BRANCO AT SILVIA CINTRA + BOX4

Miguel Rio Branco, one of the greatest names in photography and Brazilian contemporary art, opens at the gallery, on September 27^th, the exhibition “Through the golden eye”. Unlike the last two exhibitions of the artist at the gallery, when the woman was the central theme, now the works do not have the presence of the human figure.

Between diptychs, triptychs and polyptychs – mounted by Miguel as a jigsaw puzzle of photographs of different times and places – the exhibition is constructed as a poetic exercise of no themes, just a journey of the artist’s eye on landscapes, architectural details, horses, a disabled wheel, remnants of things and relics.

Known for works of strong social and political nature, such as the Maciel series, developed at Pelourinho in the late 1970s and Santa Rosa at a boxing academy in the 1990s, the exhibition at Silvia Cintra gallery is a good opportunity for the public to know a more lyrical side of Miguel Rio Branco´s work.

ABOUT MIGUEL RIO BRANCO

Born in 1946, son of a diplomat, great-grandson of the Baron of Rio Branco and grandson of the caricaturist J. Carlos, Miguel Rio Branco won a pavilion at the Inhotim (MG) contemporary art center in 2010. Space that he considers the most exciting proposal of communion art and nature.

Today he is one of the national artists with the greatest projection abroad, with a curriculum filled with exhibitions in prestigious spaces, such as his solo shows Out of Nowhere,   at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (2006), Deaf Screams at the Arles photography e encounters (2005), Plaisir La Douleur, at the Maison Européenne de La Photographie in Paris (2005) and at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm. In Brazil he recently performed a solo show “Nothing I’ll Take When I Die” at MASP (2017) and “Wishfull Thinking” at Oi Futuro (2108). Currently he is also showing  at the 33rd São Paulo Biennial.

Miguel Rio Branco – “Through the golden eye”

Exhibition from September 27th through October 27th

Rua das Acácias 104, Gávea

Monday through Friday from 10 am to 7 pm

Saturdays from 12 a.m. to 6 p.m.

E-mail: galeria@silviacintra.com.br

Tel: +55 21 2521-0426

Free entrance