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Janaina Mello Landini 23 June - 6 August 2022 More

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Adriano Franchini 23 June - 6 August 2022 Zip`Up Idealizado em 2011, um ano após a criação da Zipper Galeria, o programa Zip'Up é um projeto experimental voltado para receber novos artistas, nomes emergentes não representados por galerias paulistanas. O objetivo é manter a abertura a variadas investigações e abordagens, além de possibilitar a troca de experiência entre... More

Hiper Paisagem
Pedro Varela 10 May - 11 June 2022 A temática da exposição se liga à proposta visual dos trabalhos por meio da técnica empregada pelo artista. Em sua maioria, o conjunto de trabalhos foi produzido a partir de recortes, em tela e papel. Reunidos e amontoados, formam verdadeiras florestas simbólicas, que remetem às formações botânicas retratadas pelo artista... More

Ela não tinha a intenção de agradar
Angela Od 10 May - 11 June 2022 Angela Od reúne um recorte de sua produção baseada no papel relegado à mulher pelo catolicismo. Surgem, assim, figuras retiradas de bestiários, pinturas e iluminuras, simbolismos religiosos, demônios, sereias e bestas que se juntam às personagens femininas que se encontram em uma epopéia heróica de resistência. Toda esta narrativa é... More

Intersecção
Hildebrando de Castro 5 April - 7 May 2022 A mostra reúne sete pinturas em que o artista demonstra domínio da luz, da cor e do volume. Hildebrando produz desde o final da década de 1970. Em sua trajetória, seu trabalho passou por muitas transformações. Em nenhuma delas, porém, o artista abriu mão do preciosismo da execução. O mesmo... More

Só Os cria...
Igor Nunes 5 April - 7 May 2022 A linguagem é simbólica. Símbolos, signos e ícones constroem a identidade dos meninos jovens, da zona periférica do Rio de Janeiro. Em suas pinturas, Igor Nunes cria narrativas a partir de sua própria experiência dentro deste território. O artista retrata uma variedade de códigos pertencentes a esse grupo social, que... More

Ponto Zero
Rodrigo Braga 5 March - 2 April 2022 Como é característico no trabalho do artista, temas complexos e profundos são abordados entre a densidade e a delicadeza poética, sempre com belos jogos simbólicos e visuais que induzem a reflexão. Braga constrói narrativas difusas, com elevada subjetividade, sem destino claro, mas ao mesmo tempo preciso enquanto comentário artístico em... More

Ronda Vespertina
Rodrigo Cunha 5 March - 2 April 2022 As cenas prosaicas evocam climas, sensações. O ser humano não aparece representado tanto como indivíduo, mas como humanidade; importa menos o que os diferencia e mais o que os une. “Ronda Vespertina” é uma alusão ao momento do dia em que, já concluídos os afazeres da vida prática, as obrigações... More

Corpos múltiplos na construção da paisagem
Evandro Angerami 15 January - 19 February 2022 A Zipper Galeria tem o prazer de abrir o calendário 2022 do programa Zip’Up com a individual “Corpos múltiplos na construção da paisagem”, do artista Evandro Angerami. Aberta no dia 15 de janeiro de 2022, a exposição reúne um conjunto de trabalhos que reforça a subjetividade do artista na abordagem... More

13º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
Exposição coletiva 15 January - 19 February 2022 A 13ª edição do Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria, promovido pelo portal Mapa das Artes, realiza, a partir de 13/01/2022, na Lona Galeria de Arte, e 15/01/2022, na Zipper Galeria, ambas em São Paulo, as duas exposições simultâneas com obras dos 10 artistas selecionados nesta edição do evento. As duas... More

Fragmentos do Infinito
Teresa Viana 11 November 2021 - 8 January 2022 A Zipper tem o prazer de anunciar a primeira exposição individual de Teresa Viana na galeria na condição de artista representada. A mostra “Fragmentos do Infinito” abre no dia 11 de novembro e reúne a produção mais característica da artista: pinturas em encáustica fria e óleo, sobre tela ou madeira,... More

A Ambígua Linha Sinuosa
Laura Villarosa 11 November 2021 - 8 January 2022 Em sua primeira exposição na Zipper Galeria, Laura Villarosa apresenta um recorte da sua pesquisa sobre a paisagem, rios e relevos, entregando uma visão entre luz e sombra sobre o Antropoceno. “A Ambígua Linha Sinuosa” se debruça em particular sobre as águas, os rios e os seus percursos, desviados e... More

Igrejas Barrocas e Cavalinhos de Pau
Flávia Junqueira 2 - 30 October 2021 O título da exposição é emprestado de um ensaio do antropólogo Roger Bastide, publicado pela primeira vez em 1944. No texto, ele descreve parte de sua pesquisa sobre o barroco brasileiro, especificamente uma viagem pelo Nordeste durante a qual dedicou-se a observar os detalhes da decoração barroca. O autor relata... More

Por Um Dia Qualquer
Matias Mesquita 2 - 30 October 2021 Num magnífico e muito conhecido pequeno artigo de 1933, Walter Benjamin reflete sobre o empobrecimento (o esvaziamento) da experiência de estar no mundo do homem moderno. Numa passagem especialmente comovente deste texto (já um ensaio-poético tão em voga no contemporâneo), o filósofo judeu que seria mais uma vítima do nazismo,... More

Rituais da complexidade
Fernando Velázquez 28 August - 25 September 2021 Revelando a partir de suas vivências multimídia, Fernando Velázquez confunde e reorganiza sistemas, não-lugares e informações colaterais em uma dialogia estética que parte ora da África, ora da Europa, entre saberes ancestrais africanos e procedimentos técnico-informacionais das grandes metrópoles do capital neocolonial. Em uma criação dinamizada pelo jogo e pelo... More

Devolvo Ouro
Gabriel Chaim 31 July - 21 August 2021 O povo Yanomami é uma das mais isoladas comunidades indígenas da América do Sul. Porém, eles vêm sendo massacrados por uma sucessão de eventos originados pelo garimpo ilegal de ouro em suas terras. Além da mineração, os garimpeiros poluem os rios com mercúrio, trazem doenças, desmatamento e violência extrema. Esta... More

Illusions (ou A persistência retiniana)
ÉLCIO MIAZAKI 31 July - 21 August 2021 O ponto de partida de Élcio Miazaki é o mergulho em acervos históricos, a partir dos quais ele busca “reconstituir contextos” e conduzir sua poética. Em sua individual na Zipper, uma caixa de luz controlada por temporizador aciona a atenção do expectador com a frase “Tenha em mente que todos... More

Zipper Open
19 June - 24 July 2021 Zipper Open is an amplification of Zipper Gallery. Focused on the secondary art market, Zipper Open presents in this inaugural exhibition some of the great names of Brazilian contemporary art who were part of my trajectory as a gallery owner, collector, and dealer. Eleven years after the opening of Zipper... More

Tudo que é uno se divide
Rizza 19 June - 24 July 2021 Entrar em contato com a essência de algo significa entender que ele é passível de ser fragmentado, é necessário atravessar todas as camadas que separam o centro do limite para entender o todo. A partir de dois eixos, reflexão e refração, Rizza concebe a exposição como uma contínua divisão do... More

HOTSPOTS
Memória, imaginação e resistência - Fábio Baroli 15 May - 12 June 2021 Muito conhecido pelas pinceladas marcadas e pelo domínio pictórico, sobretudo do chiaroscuro, o artista mineiro Fábio Baroli vem transferindo, há algum tempo, o protagonismo em suas pinturas, da figura humana para a paisagem. Apropriando-se de temas e conceitos ambientalistas, o artista propõe uma reflexão sobre o especismo, o antropismo e... More

nebulosa abóbada celeste, concha azul fincada no céu
Paloma Mecozzi 15 May - 12 June 2021 Em seu trabalho, Paloma Mecozzi está em constante questionamento sobre a imagem e suas simbologias. Não obstante, em sua pesquisa, a artista eventualmente recorre ao uso da palavra como ferramenta. Em 'Nebulosa abóbada celeste, concha azul fincada no céu', embora a palavra não esteja presente diretamente nos trabalhos reunidos na... More

12º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
Groupe show 16 January - 3 April 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

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

Manobras
Celina Portella 7 November 2020 - 3 April 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

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

Zip'Up: Pedras errantes
Manuela CostaLima 28 April - 30 May 2015 Using multiple media, Manuela CostaLima has been developing a research about the place and its signification process through the human experience. In a series of recent works, the artist performs meanderings throughout the city of São Paulo in search of elements that share her experience in the urban space. In... More

Jardim Cético
Rodrigo Cunha 24 March - 18 April 2015 Cracks Painters must know that their lines circumscribe surfaces. When they fill encircled locations with color, all they seek is to represent on this surface the shapes of observed things, as if this surface were made of translucent glass and passed through the visual pyramid from a certain... More

Zip'Up: Projetos da minha espera
Eloá Carvalho 24 March - 18 April 2015 L'Esquive The observer can browse through the screens and drawings of the fluminense artist Eloá Carvalho in Projetos da Minha Espera and find some tranquility and placidity (especially in such sadly agitated times). However, such perception is quite misleading. Not because it is her intended visual and conceptual 'trick' that... More

Oxímoros
James Kudo 24 February - 21 March 2015 Oxymoron is a figure of speech which harmonizes two opposing concepts while forming a third concept. James Kudo is a creator of oxymorons: in his hand-painted collages the colors are stridently silent, and in the landscapes, sweetly poisonous, everything seems fixed - in the eternity of the moment. His work... More

Zip'Up: Armadilha para distender o espaço
Diego Arregui 24 February - 21 March 2015 The matter of time as an experience in space Diego Arregui, Peruvian artist currently residing in Chile, exhibits his work in Brazil for the first time, marking the recent interest of Zipper Gallery in promoting international exchange through the Zip'Up project. The project by Arregui entitled Trap to... More

Zip'Up: Traços de impermanência
Matias Mesquita 23 January - 21 February 2015 Spectra in concrete Drafts on the recent work of Matias Mesquita 'Extinguished of full meaning, they become tombs of permanence, in a dystopia of illusion.' 'Queues, a symptomatic outcome of this bureaucratic machine, impersonate its status, coin its heredity and solidify its social control.' These phrases, extracted from Matias... More

6º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
23 January - 21 February 2015 More

Idílio
Renata Egreja 4 November - 20 December 2014 Fireworks, glitter & garbage If Idyll, the second solo exhibit of Renata Egreja in Zipper, could be summed up in one word, that word could be “pregnant”, more so in its sense of 'inventive'. Or 'powerful'. It is hard not to be swayed by the very free pictorial thread, full... More

Zip'Up: Drawing error
Daniela Seixas 4 November - 20 December 2014 Drawing errors Drawing is an exercise of putting yourself between the control and the deliberate error, between the sketch for a later project (the drawing as mental project) and the space of experimentation where tools meet surface. Halfway through the process of updating the 2011 version of her portfolio,... More

Nobres sem aristocracia: Projeto vira-latas puros nº 51
Camila Soato 7 October - 1 November 2014 There was a mutt on the sidewalk, with its muzzle rammed into the narrow gate of a house. Inside, another dog offered its behind to be licked, positioning itself in reverse gear between the spans of the gate bars. Knowing nothing about dogs, I learned something on that street that... More

Zip'Up: Geografia de um lugar contada por ele mesmo
Flavia Mielnik 7 October - 1 November 2014 It is still astonishing that time is something unrecoverable, which seems to be revealed as the very sense of time: in the insistence on removing it from the achievable efforts of daily life, or in the filling in the gaps of the unknown with its residues, as if in an... More

A nova promessa
Daniel Escobar 3 September - 4 October 2014 Home ownership, the brand new car, expensive clothes, a unique work of art - how long does your material dream last before it becomes ruins? In The New Promise, Daniel Escobar cynically discusses the illusionistic tricks of advertising, presenting them as one of the drivers of the fast paced consumption... More

da série Mindscapes #L1, after Dan Flavin
Fernando Velázquez 3 September - 4 October 2014 In the installation, an artificial life algorithm (a kind of game of life) activate light and sound sequences with about 4 minutes of length and organized in 3 movement with infinite variables. During the course, an absurd speech is generated in real time through the voices of Antonio Damasio, Caetano... More

A falta que nos constitui
Nati Canto 5 - 30 August 2014 More

Zip'Up: Paisagem imaginada
Camilo Meneghetti 5 - 30 August 2014 The first movement of the eyes is to absorb the drawings by Camilo Meneghetti in its entirety, to then rebuild it part by part. A wild and indomitable landscape - and perhaps untouched by man - can quickly be seen. The details that build the image create small oases where... More

Zezão
14 June - 2 August 2014 Standing before a broom I came across Zezão’s art inadvertently. Before hearing about the artist, before discovering that the arabesques painted blue throughout the city walls were an art (as the artist calls them: 'my art'), without the slightest idea that one day our destinies would cross. This fact on... More

Zip'Up: O sétimo continente
Fernanda Valadares 14 June - 2 August 2014 The contemporary world is marked by a constant acceleration. Communication technologies enable a voluminous flow of information at speeds never before seen. New scales of time measurement are created so as to allow for a numerical comprehension of that which human perception cannot visually grasp. Nanoseconds and picoseconds are part... More

Era uma vez...
Marcelo Tinoco 13 May - 7 June 2014 The photo-paintings-frames by Marcelo Tinoco. Once upon a time... The artist Marcelo Tinoco has been standing out with his remarkable photographic production, which brings us back to the refined and colorist way of painting the light and the imagery of the Renaissance landscapes by Flemish artists such... More

De cara pro sol
Daré 13 May - 7 June 2014 Before the sun, in his face, blindness is inevitable. And it is she who appears in the foreground and, at least partially, announces a certain intoxication, vertigo or a simple, but no less forceful, state of ecstasy. The temporary ocular deficiency results from contact between two living organisms and is... More

Camille Kachani
16 April - 10 May 2014 Natural and manual Art is traditionally opposed to nature. Nature is the original condition, which has not been cultivated by man and that exists regardless of human activity, of any artistic artifice. Art, as a manmade construction, is usually understood as the opposite to the original and primitive condition of... More

Zip'Up: Dissonâncias cognitivas
Vick Garaventa 16 April - 10 May 2014 Inharmonies The exhibit Cognitive Dissonances, by the artist Vick Garaventa from São Paulo, comes at a very opportune moment, in a time when looking at another can be risky, and where the construction of an image - often disconnected with that which is real - is achieved by... More

Iconos
Adriana Duque 18 March - 12 April 2014 Being an artist implies, among other matters, seeking one's own path of expression amid an ocean of references to works, schools and other artists. Certain artist and works possess the power to catalyze and synthethise given points that might help other artists create concepts and aesthetics for their own future... More

Zip'Up: O corpo é eu: diários sobre a distância
Patrícia Araujo 18 March - 12 April 2014 The body and I: diaries about distance A deed of the body comes about in the crafting of time. In casings that are not meant to hide, but just to be; in the drawing of the aeroplane or within itself; in vestiges scattered around the house and in the desire... More

Primeira leitura
Marcelo Amorim 18 February - 15 March 2014 This selection of works by the Goiás artist Marcelo Amorim reveals how deceiving a First Reading can be. Drawing our attention to the danger of easy lines of thought that hide prejudices rooted in our society and, consequently, in cultural production, Marcelo Amorim's work requests a careful analysis that sweeps... More

Zip'Up: Ficção geográfica
Garapa 18 February - 15 March 2014 In his short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Jorge Luís Borges shows how reality is constructed, changeable and how the truth is easily reinvented. In the story, a single copy of an Encyclopaedia Britannica indicates the existence of a country previously unrecorded. Then, an entire enyclopaedia describes the beliefs, ideologies,... More

5º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
16 January - 15 February 2014 More

Filigranas
Carolina Ponte 19 November - 21 December 2013 Carolina Ponte: Tangled webs Carolina Ponte exercises art as a state of extension for bodies in the world. Departing from the use of lines or arabesque forms, she composes tangled, endless forms. By almost instinctively observing the associations between colours and webs, volutes come to create presences, jewels and embellishments,... More

Fuleragem polissistêmica nº 05
Camila Soato 19 November - 21 December 2013 Characters walking over a clamorous and polyphonic plateau Fuleragem Polissistêmica nº 5, the first solo exhibition in São Paulo by Brasilia artist Camila Soato, and which closes the 2013 season of the Zip’Up project, could be seen as a large, pictorial installation, in which drawing and the three-dimensional also find... More

Pedro Varela
19 October - 16 November 2013 The darkest night and I This Pedro Varela exhibition begins at night. High night, closed night. It’s at this darkest hour that we are invited to enter his latest work. With this set of works, seen as soon as one steps into the Zipper gallery, the artist... More

Zip'Up: Lacrimogêneo
Myriam Zini 19 October - 16 November 2013 Shards, rocks, surfaces The generously sized and intensely chromatic paintings of Myriam Zini, presented in her first solo exhibition, Lacrimogêneo [Lacrimatory], as part of the Zip'Up project, offer no room for half-measure readings. The viewer either admires them or rejects them with equal force. In general terms,... More

Zip'Up: Área de conflito
Raphael Escobar 21 September - 11 October 2013 Area of Conflict belongs to a subsystem of 'General Control Signage' composed of marks, symbols and legends outlined on public thoroughfares. The purpose of these signs is to provide information that makes the population obey rules of conduct for the sake of safety and fluidity of societal norms. The use... More

Toner
Geraldo Marcolini 21 September - 11 October 2013 Painting without happenings Apparently, nothing happens. This would be a fracture in the narrative condition that painting has exercised supremely. We have seen Giorgione observe lightning striking in vast landscapes, Gaspar Friedrich paint strange icebergs in an Antarctic environment, the city lights disappear in a deep, nocturnal blue of Whistler's,... More

Vazio contido
Ricardo Rendón 17 August - 14 September 2013 Beyond the material dimension of the object, one expects a work of art to bear a conceptual substrata, an immaterial content that lifts us from the plane of objects; an expectation inherited from the notion of an object of art as an object of worship, as something acting as a... More

Zip'Up: Taxonomia
Vítor Mizael 17 August - 14 September 2013 SRD Somewhere between familiarity and strangeness, attraction and repulsion, refinement and precariousness, operates the São Paulo artist Vítor Mizael. Having featured in various museum rooms and publicly tendered art projects, he debuts on the São Paulo gallery circuit with his solo exhibition Taxonomia as part of the... More

Bem-vindos
22 June - 3 August 2013 Zipper presents the exhibition Bem-vindos (Welcome), featuring the works of 6 artists, newcomers to the group represented by the gallery. Colombian Adriana Duque photographs disturbing yet attractive characters, children dressed luxuriously in baroque settings which, as if in a fantasy, is seemingly superimposed over the reality of inside modest homes.... More

Zip'Up: Rastros
Layla Motta 22 June - 10 August 2013 In her first solo exhibition Rastros [Tracks], São Paulo artist Layla Motta tackles a project spanning over photography, even though the images presented in the the Zip'Up Room are developed along a fragmented path. Commenting on her work, Motta underlines that time is the raw material for her vision. With... More

Noir
Ricardo Van Steen 18 May - 15 June 2013 Cosmic Ping-Pong One day in April 2012, artists Sandra Cinto and Albano Afonso went to Ricardo van Steen’s studio to discuss the world beyond the clouds, the internet and the dizzy heights of Romanticism, making constant reference to Van Steen’s watercolours. The conversation was continued through email exchange, and went... More

Zip'Up: A direção do vento predominante II
Victor Lema Riqué 18 May - 15 June 2013 A simple abstraction? Black is the colour of spatiality. This idea was first developed by Manet, who caused a stir in the late 19th century with Le déjeuner sur l'herbe. The black was not used as a symbol of absence, or as contrast to highlight other colours, but... More

Suspense
Katia Maciel 24 April - 15 May 2013 Synopsis of a suspense A letter arrived in the post this morning. Rather, it was a box. White. I thought I heard a noise from inside. The sound of a train sliding along tracks. The sound of a scream, or was it a mosquito? I shook it. Opened it. Through... More

Click contemporâneo
24 April - 15 May 2013 More

Caos-mundo
João Castilho 23 March - 20 April 2013 João Castilho's works highlight relations between photographic image and the broadening of narrative devices. Castilho is interested in observing links between landscape and pictorial visuals, illustrated, for example, by his interventions with coloured dye in a salt desert. Or by his observations of natural phenomena in countryside environments, like the... More

Zip'Up: Nem todo fato é narrável
Ivan Grilo 23 March - 20 April 2013 Losing and remaining “A photo is a vestige. But a vestige of what?”1 . The Portuguese Susana de Sousa Dias answered that question with a most disturbing film-installation, 48, presented at the Matadero Madri, in 2011. Using police files from the old DGS – the political police that... More

Luz em túlia
Alessandra Duarte 21 February - 16 March 2013 Content coming soon. More

Zip'Up: Nova abstração nova
Monica Tinoco 21 February - 16 March 2013 Content coming soon. More

4º Salão dos Artistas Sem Galeria
23 January - 16 February 2013 More

Imagem mi(g)rante
15 December 2012 - 19 January 2013 Content coming soon. More

Projeto !wr?
15 December 2012 - 19 January 2013 From the loss of aura to its dematerialization in the digital medium and the subsequent distribution on networks, image has gone through endless stages and statutes in the last 200 years. In this project/experiment, we are interested in reflecting on some particular aspects. On the one hand we are interested... More

Quadros e esculturas
10 November - 8 December 2012 Double vision What can still be expected from colors, in a world that has lost much of its capacity to show itself, often being reduced to a sum of products and acts which, in their interlinking, make the contemporary societies function? Is it possible for us to keep talking about... More

Zip'Up: Requadros
Mariana Tassinari 10 November - 8 December 2012 Morlan Companhia Açucareira Vale do Rosário. The faded yellow label stuck on an old poster is barely readable, but hints at the image that expands beyond the field of the record at hand. As there is a photograph of the set exhibited in Requadros in which the artist inserts digital... More

Perimetrais
Ana Holck 5 September - 20 October 2012 Around crossings and towers Six years ago I wrote about Ana Holck's work. Considering the speeds at which things take place nowadays, a period of over half a decade is a sufficient span for, among other things, testing the consistency of the work in terms of the development of its... More

Zip'Up: Planisfério
Marina Camargo 5 September - 20 October 2012 Radial fissures In Planisfério (Planisphere), Marina Camargo’s work orbits between its two main artistic thrusts: the attempt to encompass something of amplitude and the more detailed focus on the specific and the indicatory. At the crossings between landscape and confinement, the intuitive and the conventional, the diluted and the determined,... More

Mindscapes
Fernando Velázquez 4 August - 1 September 2012 Metaphysical landscapes: art as a form of thought Mindscapes (2011-2012), a series of works by the transdisciplinary artist Fernando Velázquez, is an invitation to reveries and reflections. The title of the work clearly evokes the idea of mental landscapes and, in dialogue with Oliver Sacks' thinking, Velázquez leads us to... More

Íntima ação
Carolina Paz 4 August - 1 September 2012 Fireworks It's a striking scene in the plot of Certified Copy. James (William Shimell) views the rooftops and towers of the small cluster of houses and buildings of Arezzo through the window of the hotel where he relives (or stages, but the doubt remains, decisively, and is a key factor... More

Zip'Up: Transmission
Geraldo Marcolini 30 June - 28 July 2012 'Radio, live transmission/ Radio, live transmission'. After Peter Hook’s bass solo leading the song intro to the vigorous drum beat of Stephen Morris, Ian Curtis’ somber and characteristic voice embodies the lyrics of Transmission, by Joy Division, in one of the highlights of British post-punk music of the late 1970s.... More

Fecho éclair
30 June - 28 July 2012 More

O ser, como meta
Bruno Kurru 26 May 2012 The material of life Bruno Kurru's painting is inside another painting. Each of them consisting of several paintings. Things open into smaller interiors that paradoxically refer back to the whole. Instead of showing details, each part expands. We are stuck in this spiral labyrinth, within which the act of looking... More

A regra do jogo
Renata Egreja 26 May - 23 June 2012 'I wanted to put everything inside the frame until it fell like rotten fruit on the ground'. Jorge Guinle José de Alencar, perhaps Brazil's foremost romantic prose writer, is known for an elaborate narrative style that was reflected in his novels in extensive passages and meticulously described details on flora,... More

O mundo de dentro
Rodrigo Cunha 21 April - 19 May 2012 Dr. Simão Bacamarte, the protagonist in Machado de Assis’ short story O Alienista (1881), is presented by the author as a noble, well-read figure coming from the kingdom to the colony with the intention of caring for his patients' 'soul health', whereby he qualifies his trade as a physician of... More

Zip'Up: Lugar do outro
Julia Kater 21 April - 19 May 2012 Silver abyss Abismos (Abysses). This was the title of the ‘work’ which became Lugar do Outro, the first solo exhibition of the Franco-Paulistana artist Julia Kater. The name is somewhat curious, given that landscapes dominate the set of works exhibited in the Zip’Up room (or else constructions that refer to... More

Sob o luar fotográfico
Jardineiro André Feliciano 10 March - 7 April 2012 What we photograph, what photographs us: art glow worm 'Hey, see that can, you can see it because you're looking at it, but it doesn't need to see you to look at you.' (Jacques Lacan, Seminar 16) Photography is a doubt. Photography is a reflex. Photography is an instinct (of... More

Zip'Up: Ela caminha em direção à fronteira
Ana Mazzei 10 March - 14 April 2012 Questionings about places The Zip'Up Room is now bathed in a celestial light, emitting a glow that passes through the small side windows of the architectural niche that currently houses the acoustic artwork Ela Caminha em Direção à Fronteira (She Walks toward the Frontier). This is also the title of... More

Terra cortada
Rodrigo Zeferino 28 January - 3 March 2012 Opening up trails, paths, roads. Forging ahead is paramount. Or is it? In insisting on expanding his own patch of land, man splits, constructs and moulds the landscape. In the transition from what the landscape has been to what it will become, traces gather as remains remain. Great monuments constructed... More

Inutilia
Suzana Scheinkman 28 January - 3 March 2012 Content coming soon. More

Território de caça
3 December 2011 - 21 January 2012 “Would you agree with Smithson that you, Dennis, and Mike are involved in a dialectic between the outdoors and the gallery? Oppenheim – I think that the outdoor/indoor relationship in my work is more subtle. I don't really carry a gallery disturbance concept around with me; I leave that behind... More

Ainda viva
Pedro Varela 29 October - 26 November 2011 A trail with no end in sight? Pedro Varela’s paintings, drawings and collages used to be a kind of cross between Julie Mehretu and Franz Ackermann, or between Corinne Wasmuht and Matthew Richie: architectures suggested amidst a flow of references to geometric and informal abstraction. His 'white phase' has added... More

Zip'Up: Hotel Tropical
João Castilho 29 October - 26 November 2011 Malady of the tropics Crumbling walls in a backyard. Coat hangers hanging on a support. Fans mounted on a perforated ceiling. A mosquito net with lacework embedded into it. Light from lamps, from the sun bathing a bedroom, from a television set. Such elements, fragmented in blue, white, green and... More

Primeira individual retrospectiva
Felipe Morozini 17 September - 8 October 2011 SUNSET Here the Sun is transformed into a São Paulo metaphor. In the city where, by virtue of not only poverty, but also the tortuous geography of the buildings, almost natural obstacles, the sun has definitively not risen for everyone. Hardly anyone realizes that the Praça do Pôr-do-Sol (Sunset Square),... More

Zip'Up: Paragem
Laura Gorski 17 September - 22 October 2011 Inner Sea 'But we do not exclude the possibility of a people who are configured according to what Rimbaud touched on when he talked of a free and open peuple de colombes.'(1) This comment, written in cursive script and immersed in the surface of a blackboard, accompanied a set of... More

Topofilia
James Kudo 13 August - 10 September 2011 Nature, architecture, patterns. James Kudo's use of image is developed between constructions and threats. Flanking the herons and varied branches of vegetation, one can see chainsaws and shotguns. The forest intuited in the confusion of violet at the bottom of the painting reveals the misty building of an industrial plant.... More

Zip'Up: Perto longe
Aline van Langendonck 13 August - 10 September 2011 Shifting prospects Aline van Langendonck’s artistic proposals skilfully address the notions of construction and erasure. Many of the underlying strata of the studies for the artist’s drawings, in particular, are related to São Paulo, the complicated city where the artist was born and lives, and which seems to live a... More

Correspondências visuais
Cassio Vasconcellos & Marcelo Brodsky 9 - 30 July 2011 Put the kettle on the stove. When the water reaches its boiling point, take the envelope that is to be opened and make smooth movements with your hands, passing the sealed flap through the slender stream of vapor. The glue will soften little by little. Do not cease the movement... More

Zip'Up: Aéreos
Fabio Flaks 9 - 30 July 2011 Radical maneuvers Where do the noisy and colorful figures adept to skateboarding, who could be the focus of the series Aéreos, new production by São Paulo native Fabio Flaks, now a sporadic skateboarder himself, wander about? When we see the canvases the artist produced on the subject, the absence of... More

Tempobjeto
Katia Maciel 1 June - 2 July 2011 Content coming soon. More

Zip'Up: Já vou
Alessandra Duarte 30 April - 21 May 2011 “We are the time./We are the famous/metaphor from Heraclitus, the Obscure. /We are the water, not the hard diamond,/the one that is lost, not the one that stands still./We are the river and we are that Greek/that looks himself into the river./His reflection/changes into the waters of the changing mirror,/into... More

Gustavo Nóbrega
30 April - 28 May 2011 The young painter experienced, by means of the collections exposed in the antique shop belonging to his grandfather Sir Nóbrega, and later to his father Claudino Nóbrega, also a painter, the cohabitation with the Brazilian sacred art. The rich iconography of the saints in the devotions of the Brazilian catholic... More

Carolina Ponte
19 March - 23 April 2011 Weaving worlds In crochet, any stitch which goes forward must make its way back, thus completing the knot that will not prevent the fabric from fraying. The drawings and crochet works that Carolina Ponte presents in this exhibition show a moment in the artist´s career in which she makes the... More

Zip'Up: Presenças
19 March - 23 April 2011 'Thus, new, graceful and spectacular scenarios alternated without interruption in front of our astonished eyes, until finally the capital of the new kingdom, festively lit by the setting sun, has been patented in our sight (...). An indescribable feeling came over us all at the time when the anchor hit... More

Silêncio
4 December 2010 - 5 February 2011 When everyone screams, silence becomes the most eloquent sound. The pause is always present in the gaps of discourse. Silence appears thanks to noise. The musician counts pauses while the soloist plays. Four minutes and thirty-three seconds of pause. It is necessary to go through the white-on-white. A white canvas... More

O átomo e o vazio
RAG 26 October - 2 December 2010 Boiling point PB29. The ultramarine blue that invokes Yves Klein's emblematic color receives a title that throws the color into an aseptic impersonality. However, to subvert something that is apprehended a priori is one of the accomplishments of the work by RAG, an artist who will have his first solo... More

A casa em festa
Flávia Junqueira 11 September - 16 October 2010 Comfortably numb (1) Hello, Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone at home? (…) When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put... More