Exhibitions

Atuais

Manobras
Celina Portella 7 November 2020 - 20 February 2021 In Manobras [Manoeuvres], the artist Celina Portella brings together a new production that breaks the boundaries that, in theory, separate the territories of image, medium and performance. With a critical text by Paula Alzugaray, the exhibition opens on November 7 - Saturday, from 11 am to 5 pm - and... More

12º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
Groupe show 16 January - 20 February 2021 A 12ª edição do Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria, promovido pelo Mapa das Artes, realiza, a partir de 14/01/2021, na Lona Galeria de Arte, e 16/01/2021, na Zipper Galeria, ambas em São Paulo, as duas exposições simultâneas com obras dos 10 artistas selecionados nesta edição do evento. As duas mostras... More

Passadas

Photographic Ecology
André Feliciano 9 November 2020 - 9 January 2021 In a forest, I often felt that I was not the one looking at the trees. Some days I felt that the trees were looking at me, talking to me ... I was there listening. Paul Klee André Feliciano’s photos for this exhibition are revealed by a dance of blinking... More

Zip'Up: Na raiz / Caminho / Pelos laços / Passarinho
Vítor Mizael 29 February - 2 May 2020 [virtual tour] Prejudices have more roots than principles. Nicholas Machiavelli Poetry does not hurt the brute. Even when used as a weapon of defence, of counterattack, of hope, poetry is harmless in the face of impervious minds and alienated bodies. These, perhaps out of pride or perhaps ignorance, do not... More

Museu de Novidades
Marcelo Tinoco 29 February - 2 May 2020 [virtual tour] Museum of Novelties, the new series of artworks by Marcelo Tinoco is an almost-everything. The formal transparency of photography is contradicted by the pictorial component that underlies the power and splendour of the images. The 'almost' defines the blurring of borders between photography, painting and drawing, exponentiating and... More

11º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
18 January - 20 February 2020 More

Zip'Up: Padrão
Cristina Suzuki 18 January - 20 February 2020 To repeat and repeat – until it becomes different. To repeat is the gift of style. Manoel De Barros O livro das ignorãças, 1993 Repetition creates patterns, while also being able to create something new. Isn’t it the advice we give young emerging artists? Redo it, again and again,... More

Zip'Up: Se você não vem comigo nada disso tem valor
Mauricio Parra 21 November 2019 - 10 January 2020 Anyone who lived in the 1970s knows very well those heavily painted sunset landscapes found in any hippie market. Or the prints on the t-shirts from California surf brand Hang Ten. But these are references from an all-too-pop repertoire, and a bit indigestible for the formal canons of contemporary art.... More

Escapes
Ricardo van Steen 21 November 2019 - 11 January 2020 In Escapes Ricardo van Steen presents eight paintings in which he covers themes that encompass space, public space and perception. By confronting us with classic duels around nature and culture, he creates a timeless visuality. In a second clash the artist detaches himself from the machinic and the photographic, which... More

O absurdo e a graça
Flávia Junqueira 12 October - 16 November 2019 [virtual tour] To be frightened facing the absurd, to become calm in the presence of grace - perhaps one can describe thus the powerful experience of seeing Flávia Junqueira in action, composing with eccentric rigor her unusual images. Lost in the profusion of colours, with eyes obfuscated by the... More

Zip'Up: boa noite cinderela
Giulia Puntel 12 October - 16 November 2019 [virtual tour] Before designating the well-known scam[1], “Good Night, Cinderella” was the title of a sketch on Silvio Santos's television program, aired in the 1970s and 1980s. During each episode, the host interacted with three girls, ages between 3 and about 5 years old, candidates for the role of Cinderella... More

Solilóquio
Camille Kachani 5 September - 5 October 2019 [virtual tour] Under history, memory and forgetting. Under memory and forgetting, life. But writing a life is another story. Incompletion. With these verses, French thinker Paul Ricoeur ends one of his major books devoted to the history of memory in the West.[1] In a very synthetic manner,... More

Zip'Up: Horizonte suspenso
Helô Mello 5 September - 5 October 2019 [virtual tour] Expired films, erratic cameras, blind juxtapositions and the incorporation of noise generated by a chance-riddled creative process form the lexicon of the research that artist Helô Mello has developed in recent years, which has resulted in the show Hanging Horizon that the Zipper Gallery now hosts in... More

Renascimento
Adriana Duque 6 - 31 August 2019 [virtual tour] In the beginning, the absence of light epitomized the sunset of dreams, the inordinate belief in the occult and unnameable forces. When absence turned to latency, from the absolute darkness of the background, gradually, lights became paint and tinted the rebirth of a new plane from... More

Zip'Up: Retrogosto
João GG 6 - 31 August 2019 [virtual tour] Residual taste, an effect that remains after consumption, which remains already as something else: aftertaste suggests simultaneously new and recalled perceptions, both original but reminiscent of the substance from which they stream; sensations capable of referring to one or several references – the aftertaste of wine, spice, aspirin,... More

Autofágico
Pedro Varela 15 June - 27 July 2019 '(...) [it] ate from the dictionary the words that could be joined in verses,'[1] it ate plants and fruits, flowers and the remnants of bodies that became only a head. It ate the edges of the images that would have been landscape before. It took risks without worrying about the... More

Zip'Up: CRASH
15 June - 27 July 2019 More

Ciclo
Monica Piloni 11 May - 8 June 2019 [virtual tour] Unfathomable cycle At the end of the second decade of this century, interest in the representation of the human figure in the field of art is still remarkable, even after the many attacks against figurative art and its links with objective reality and realism. The body, its... More

SELVA-MATA
Fábio Baroli 11 May - 8 June 2019 [virtual tour] Green, vibrato SELVA-MATA, the first solo show by the artist Fábio Baroli, from Minas Gerais, at the Zipper Gallery, points to a new moment in his body of work, when the human figure gives way to nature; not without exuberance, attractively observed, in landscapes made with delicacy -... More

Felipe Seixas
13 April - 4 May 2019 '… we must remind ourselves that the idea that the world is made up of weightless atoms surprises us because we have experienced the weight of things. Similarly, we could not admire the lightness of language if we had not also learned to admire language endowed with weight.' Italo Calvino... More

Zip'Up: Tempo Quando
Marilde Stropp 13 April - 4 May 2019 Leaden Virtue Step by step: Yesterday I die Tomorrow I'm born Where there's space I walk: - My time is when (Poetics, 1950 - Vinícius de Moraes) Time When is an inner landscape in a state of upheaval. It is the encounters and collisions of materials and substances that the... More

Aqui, agora.
Janaina Mello Landini 9 March - 6 April 2019 Webs in suspended equilibrium: Janaina de Mello Landini's Ciclotramas In her recent exhibition at the Zipper Galeria, the artist Janaina Mello Landini presents new works from the Ciclotrama series, showing for the first time in São Paulo a large site specific sculpture specially conceived for the gallery's main room. As... More

10º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
15 January - 23 February 2019 More

Zip'Up: Caraíva
Luisa Brandelli 15 January - 23 February 2019 The sea is already closer to the beach-mat. Lala plays on the beach while the tide goes up. The day was already good and became lighter after her father understood that it was better to leave the bluetooth loudspeaker off. In the morning, the people under the parasol next to... More

África revisitada
6 November 2018 - 12 January 2019 Modern Africa, more than any other continent, is experiencing a period of compressed time. It is just 50 years old and thus only slightly older than the average age of its current population. At the same time, it has still not opened up fully to industrialization. However, in the last... More

Autofagia, corrupio no olhar
Delson Uchôa 20 September - 27 October 2018 More

Zip'Up: Subtrações
Celina Portella 20 September - 27 October 2018 A leap in the dark and tales of shadows '[shadows] are always companions, joined to the bodies.' (Leonardo da Vinci, undated)[1] A sum of opposing forces seems to underpin Celina Portella's process in Subtrações [Subtractions]. The idea of an equation suggested by the title does not, however, lead to a... More

BOMBRASIL
Romy Pocztaruk 18 August - 15 September 2018 Memory and resistance are sisters. There is no doubt that the work of Romy Pocztaruk affirms this parity. Her poetic program, built over the last decade, presents us with a research that critically appropriates the past aiming to reconfigure our gaze at the present and, consequently, our perspective of the... More

Zip'Up: Paradeiro
David Almeida 18 August - 15 September 2018 Places of departure The term “whereabouts” carries within itself a certain notion of movement: it designates a place where a person or thing is, will stop or remain. It refers, at the same time, to the point of departure and arrival of something, to an end or to a transitional... More

Iceberg
Fernando Velázquez 21 June - 11 August 2018 Poetic license functions like a hiatus in the atrophy of a social, political, military or economic crisis. Through the gratuity or the absurdity of the poetic act, art provokes a moment of suspension of meaning, a brief sensation of senselessness that reveals the absurd of the situation and, through this... More

Zip'Up: É tarde e chove, mas os ratos não têm medo do escuro
Randolpho Lamonier 21 June - 11 August 2018 Walking at night through Augusto de Lima Avenue, in Belo Horizonte, you’ll possibly see an apartment facing the Maleta Building, with the lights on in the living room almost all of the time. There lives a person who, not happy with the experiences lived under the sun, tries to create... More

Hora do intervalo
Rodrigo Cunha 17 May - 16 June 2018 More

Desmedida
17 May - 16 June 2018 Desmedida [Unmeasured], thus materialized, is an expository prelude to the most diverse ruminations and lucubrations; travels and prospections; documents and images; re-significations and artistic strategies for an exorbitant and contemporary imaginary of Brazil - still open, fissured and in permanent construction. Latent is the desire to uncover an excessively complex... More

Trailer
Katia Maciel 10 April - 12 May 2018 Were it not for the word In 2001, visual artist, poet and scholar Katia Maciel shoots the documentary Neoconcretos. The film consists of a series of statements given by artists who had been active within the orbit of the Neoconcrete dissidence, and one of the more salient leitmotifs to... More

Zip'Up: Há sempre um corpo que sobra
Maya Weishof 10 April - 12 May 2018 Within man there was an endless void, and little or nothing of what it contained stood for happiness. Man was falling, into man. (Valter Hugo Mãe, The Son of a Thousand Men). Where does the body end and everything else begins? The space and the boundary between whatever is left,... More

Balangandã
Carolina Ponte 1 March - 7 April 2018 The visual magic of Carolina Ponte’s balangandãs (nt) Balangandãs is, above all, a resounding word. They possess magical attributes that protect the person who wears it; it’s a seductive object. The magic symbol, which Carolina Ponte currently chose as her research focus, inhabits her collages and become a new feature... More

Zip'Up: Gárgulas ao sol do meio-dia
Maíra Senise 1 March - 7 April 2018 A set of paintings and small sculptures by Maíra Senise emerge - one from the other - as part of an imaginary that blends together disconcerting fables and a daily life of feminine ornaments, from nail polish to glitter. Yes, what we see between the vases are little animals, and... More

Zip'Up: Trauma
Ivan Padovani 16 January - 24 February 2018 Ephemeral Archaeologies It is important to briefly exercise our imagination when looking at the concrete structures and metallic beams that serially reappear in Ivan Padovani's photographs. Which stores could we tell from these buildings if we came across them a thousand years from now? If a city's constructions and... More

9º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
16 January - 24 February 2018 More

Zip'Up: Zona de remanso
Filipe Acácio 11 November 2017 - 12 January 2018 It’s always time for not having time; for what could have been; for how good it would have been if we had had the time to discover things, to be together, to see noon come and not try to profit from time. People die, phone apps keep vibrating and we... More

Você chegou ao seu destino
Felipe Cama 11 November 2017 - 12 January 2018 'There is a road, but no destination', Mia Couto wrote in Sleepwalking Land. But in the land where Google Maps inhabitants live in, this equation isn't applicable. Arriving sooner is more important. We need to shorten our routes, save time, fulfill efficiency rituals. There is no more room for drifting.... More

Zip'Up: Plano imaginado
Adriana Vignoli 5 October - 4 November 2017 From the interactions between space and society arise desires of (re)modeling. Geographical space is the one composed of world complexes, social-spatial formations and everyday life. According to Milton Santos, modeled territories are built on this hybrid spatial process comprised of form-functions, form-matter and objects-actions. Cities emerge as this materialization, in... More

Chão em chamas
João Castilho 5 October - 4 November 2017 We reside in the universe; we reside on Earth; we reside in a house; we reside in a body. We are always residing – unrelenting gerund – within. On earth, beneath the sky – before the divine and among mortals – there is a large “keeping” that keeps a graduation... More

Foram ao norte para chegar ao sul
Graciela Sacco 22 August - 30 September 2017 They went North to arrive in the South. A statement that repudiates any certainty built during centuries about the forms of control of spaces and territories. Would it be possible for the South be in the North as well? Or it would be impossible to reach there? Among sophisticated movements... More

Missão Francesa
André Penteado 20 July - 16 August 2017 French Mission, by André Penteado, is the second of a series of works generically titled Rastros, Traços e Vestígios (Trails, Tracks and Traces). The first was called Cabanagem, and the following ones Farroupilha, Descobrimento (Discovery) and Independência (Independence). Together, they try to identify through photography the subtle marks that bind... More

Zip'Up: De onde emergem os nervos
Sheila Oliveira 20 July - 16 August 2017 The exercise of art is, for Sheila Oliveira, a fruitful path towards self-awareness. After working for years with issues relating to transcendence and affective memory, her work gained new approaches in recent times, now shown for the first time together in this exhibition. from where the nerves arise investigates the... More

Zip'Up: O animal que logo sou
Romain Dumesnil 22 June - 15 July 2017 How do we see ourselves and other beings in this world? The propositions of Romain Dumesnil construct, inhabit and conceive the artistic practices and the exhibition space as a living operative, a working site. Here, the artist is an operator of passages through the boundaries of domestication. In the maneuvers... More

Muito sol na cachoeira
Bruno Novelli 18 May - 20 June 2017 Determinately committed to partiality, irony and perversity; oppositional, utopic and not innocent at all. The binary polarity between public and private doesn’t structure it. With the cyborg, nature and culture, primordial modern duality, they are both reframed: one can no longer be the object of appropriation or incorporation by the... More

Zip’Up: Museu mise-en-scène
Isis Gasparini 18 May - 17 June 2017 Being under the rule of devices, this same device that allows us to see that we are inside an art gallery and everything else that comes with it, is a condition of the game of at least a part of the contemporary art exhibitions. But can becoming aware of this... More

Improvável
Mario Ramiro 11 April - 13 May 2017 Sometimes it is enough to think about art as an expression of a historical context, a way of thinking, an ideology, one's own perspective of the world. This projects onto the artworks a somewhat appeasing legibility. Things get more complicated when the image is taken as an exploitation instrument that... More

Caviar é uma ova!
Camila Soato 7 March - 8 April 2017 I have a friend who is professional at making the 'ppk' blink is one of the phrases scrawled in Camila Soato's paintings - 'ppk' is the popular abbreviation for the word 'pepeca' in Portuguese, a colloquial synonym for the female sexual organ. For those who understand the expression, making the... More

Zip'Up: (I)matérico presente
Felipe Seixas 7 March - 8 April 2017 'Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. […] They are involved in a systematic reduction of time down to fractions of seconds, rather than in representing the long spaces of centuries. Both past and... More

8º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
17 January - 4 March 2017 More

Imagem-Movimento
29 November 2016 - 14 January 2017 The lasting moment What sets a still image apart from a motion picture nowadays? For a long time, there seemed to be a clear and nearly polarized distinction between them: in photography, the 'decisive moment' (Henri Cartier-Bresson) ensured the possibility of an objective portrayal of a certain reality. Forever... More

Encyclopaedia Privata
Camille Kachani 20 October - 19 November 2016 Identity as a refusal Identity is an ambiguous word that can refer to an idea of belonging as well as to the radicalization of its expressions. Throughout the 20th century, many authors debated its meanings, indicating something subjective, constructed, that it carries. Stuart Hall was one of them. In The... More

Zip'Up: And listen to the wind blow
Diana Motta 20 October - 19 November 2016 Irremediably* Stepping into a mirror room could be the sensation that the public experiences when they visit And listen to the wind blow, by Diana Motta, on project Zip' Up. The first solo exhibition by this artist from Sao Paulo in art galleries leads to some poetic vectors of her... More

Quando os monstros envelhecem
Flávia Junqueira 15 September - 15 October 2016 Monstrous wonder Where would the monsters announced by the title of this exhibit be? Even though the photographs and objects assembled here do not make direct references to these creatures, they can be found in spaces that are not just in the imaginary. In our language, such characters serve as... More

Zip'Up: Quando linhas imaginárias entrecruzam latitude e longitude
Thais Graciotti 15 September - 15 October 2016 Crossings and translations “I was three years old. My brother Miguel, a bit older. We embarked in London bound for Brazil. It was a 21-day trip. Or was it 19? My memory betrays me.” M. T. “The effort is great and the man is small. I, Diogo Cao, navigator, left... More

Labirinto sintrópico
Janaina Mello Landini 13 August - 10 September 2016 ... First, that we recognize space as the product of interrelations (…) Second, that we understand space as the sphere of the possibility of the existence of multiplicity (…) Third, that we recognize space as always under construction. Precisely because space on this regarding is a product of relations-between, relations... More

Zip'Up: Paraísos fiscais
Iris Helena 13 August - 10 September 2016 To be paid | erased [...] the vertiginous view does not even need an explicit crack to deliver itself. Luciana Paiva, Precarious, fragility and instability in the image. Could this dispersion of objects, so banal and precarious, be assembled as an unusual graphic constellation? Mere papers (or just its... More

Periscópio
9 July - 6 August 2016 The exhibition features works by artists who have been leaning towards the so-called new medias and its tangents from different perspectives and interests. The history of art is permeated by transition periods related to the technological advances of each time. David Hockney presents in O conhecimento Secreto ('The Secret Knowledge')... More

Pedro Varela
9 June - 2 July 2016 Pedro dreams the landscape as an organic mosaic, fluid, lush in flowers and in exotic fruits. Fleshy pulp wearing the skin of an image. Collective subject fabled in the vegetation mimicking the body of the indigenous, the black, the mestizo, the settler. An embarrassing coexistence between those who impose themselves... More

Isso se dá porque
Bruno Kurru 5 May - 4 June 2016 When someone asked me: 'Dear, what are you doing?', I would at times break my vow of silence and respond: 'I make movies, can't you see?'. In fact, I tried to extract the images I had seen, those which I had kept in memory and in scraps of paper, and... More

Zip'Up: Lugar familiar
Ursula Tautz 5 May - 4 June 2016 Perhaps it is more a question of seeking to feel at home here, in the only moment and context that we have... Ian Chambers Ursula Tautz presents photographs and a video installation. Researching the relationships involving dwelling, belonging, the artist uses the (re) signification of the... More

Memória possível
Ricardo Rendón 2 - 30 April 2016 For the 2006 installation entitled Wall Work (Drill Work), Ricardo Rendón repeatedly drilled holes into a drywall, until its internal structure became almost perfectly visible. In more recent works, as is well known by those who follow the work of the Mexican artist, the holes have become a sort of... More

Zip'Up: Ganimedes
Zé Carlos Garcia 2 - 30 April 2016 The scenario of events is Mount Ida, in modern Turkey, southeast of the city of Troy. Zeus is charmed by a prince, the son of the King of Dardania named Ganymede, who works in his father's herds. The boy is commonly represented in the visual arts as having an athletic... More

Maquinal
Marcelo Amorim 25 February - 26 March 2016 Maquinal ('Mechanical'): A gesture or an instinctive behavior performed by an unconscious habit or one without apparent reflection. Marcelo Amorim has been building a singular path for years, revealing, through the appropriation of images found in books, on the internet, on file or in old photographs, hidden meanings of the... More

Tempo arenoso
Elaine Pessoa 25 February - 26 March 2016 Near fading/sandy time Although time invariably exercises its strenuous dynamics in advancing over an infinite number of things, places, landscapes, sensations, beings and corners of the soul, we always delude ourselves by the human ineffectiveness to accompany it. Impregnated with sequence, frequency, and paced by the wait for precise certainty,... More

7º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
19 January - 20 February 2016 More

Imagem em processo
Márcio H. Mota 19 January - 20 February 2016 Mars meets Venus (The meaning of images is the magical context of reversible relations. Vilém Flusser) Introducing the work of Márcio H. Mota is not an easy task. The artist deals with multiple procedures and interests, manipulating the image either technological or culturally. There is a clear fetishistic fascination joining... More

Filhos da Guerra: o custo humanitário de um conflito ignorado
3 December 2015 - 16 January 2016 The sons of war A striking night in Paris is like all afternoons in Syria or Iraq. For someone who loves, what's the difference between being in a club in Paris and finding a suicide bomber or being in a mosque, in Raqqa, and being bombed by a drone? Pain... More

Constelações, intermitências e alguns rumores
22 October - 21 November 2015 Every artistic production has a central radiator, a spark that lights subjectivities, gestures, experiences, points of view. When the artist persists in the prospection of this creative source – which means facing with courage his limitations and internal mazes – it is natural that this endeavor unfolds a myriad of... More

Zip'Up: Velocity vs. viscosity
Antonio Lee 22 October - 21 November 2015 I’ll be your mirror “The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with the constitution of a pictorial fact.” 1 Georges Braque’s argument (1882-1963), written in the emblematic year of 1917 in Thoughts and Reflections on Art, is kept up to date... More

Zip'Up: Pela rua com recortes
Zé Vicente 19 September - 17 October 2015 The redefinition of image Collage has been increasingly present in contemporary culture. We are the image society. English Pop art, created on the latter half of the 50s, with Richard Hamilton's notorious collage, comprised of magazine ads' clippings, was getting closer to mass media and appropriating its signs. However, the... More

Mastro
Estela Sokol 19 September - 17 October 2015 Content coming soon. More

Porcelana e vulcão
João Castilho 6 August - 12 September 2015 In his new solo exhibition at Zipper Gallery, artist João Castilho presents a series of new works that continue and deepen his research into concept and form in the field of photography and video. Entitled Porcelana e Vulcão (Porcelain and Volcano), the exhibition also includes sculptures, a recent aspect of... More

Zip'Up: Outras cidades
Clara Benfatti 6 August - 12 September 2015 The panorama that Clara Benfatti unfolds in one of her main series, Cidades Brancas ('White Cities'), causes in the observer feelings that are, at times, contradictory. If the heavy labor attested by a kind of extensive filigree - formed in the manner of one of those old scenes created by... More

Marca d'água
Luis Coquenão 2 July - 1 August 2015 The images overflow fleetingly And we are naked before the living things. What presence can ever meet The impulse within us, endless, To be all and to bloom in every flower? Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen Obra Poética I Caminho The life story of an artist appears behind his work... More

Zip'Up: é. é. é.
Manoela Medeiros 2 July - 1 August 2015 More

DOIS
Felipe Morozini 2 - 27 June 2015 TWO How much do we permit ourselves to be permeated and touched by the events around us? To what extent are we able to celebrate our own reality? Felipe Morozini seems to answer these questions through his deep affection for the city of Sao Paulo and its phenomena. His images... More

Ciclotrama 20 (Onda)
Janaina Mello Landini 2 June - 27 August 2015 There are poetics of space and poetic spaces - and this does not necessarily have to do with the compositional skills of any architect. There are also places of affection and affection for places - and nor does this always refer to some unmistakable beauty of the form of the... More

O Belo em si
Delson Uchôa 28 April - 30 May 2015 W hen looking at the beauty of the enchanting symmetrical patterns in a painting by Delson Uchôa, the viewer has two options: to stop at the surface of appearance, or to leap into the Beautiful itself. I use here this concept of Platonic sonority after having spent three days immersed... More

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