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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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11º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
18 January - 20 February 2020
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Zip'Up: CRASH
15 June - 27 July 2019
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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...
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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 -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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10º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
15 January - 23 February 2019
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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...
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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...
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Autofagia, corrupio no olhar
Delson Uchôa
20 September - 27 October 2018
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Hora do intervalo
Rodrigo Cunha
17 May - 16 June 2018
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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9º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
16 January - 24 February 2018
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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8º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
17 January - 4 March 2017
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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')...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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7º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
19 January - 20 February 2016
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Mastro
Estela Sokol
19 September - 17 October 2015
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Zip'Up: é. é. é.
Manoela Medeiros
2 July - 1 August 2015
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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...
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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...
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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...
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