“Without Barriers” Exhibition

Paulo Branquinho opens unprecedented exhibition with paintings, engravings, photographs, sculptures and objects in the gallery he occupies in Lapa

After a three-year hiatus, Galeria Paulo Branquinho has just returned to the art scene at full speed, opening new press conference on the day 12 August, Saturday.

“Without Barriers”, the new exhibition which will be inaugurated in the 18th century house in Lapa, will have the participation of 16 artists, who, together, will present works using different supports, styles, techniques and materials.

Alessandro Carola, Ana Pose, Analu Nabuco, Eda Miranda, Edna Cup, Gustavo Alves, Ira Etz, Istefania Rubino, Jacqueline Dalsenter, Jose Senna, Laura Bonfá Burnier, Marcia Rommes, Maria Cecilia Leão, Maria Eugênia Baptista, Maria Lúcia Maluf and Teresinha Mazzei, have in common the proposal to seek the attentive look of visitors and cause different emotions..

Artists and their works

the belgian artist Alessandro Carola assembles a panel in tiles using the same traditional painting technique used in the 17th century in Portugal. Inspired by Portuguese Baroque, the theme mixes inquisition, eroticism and comics.

Held at the motel where the father lived and worked, where it was practically created, the photographs of Ana Pose they explored girlish memories through the rooms they registered.

Analu Nabuco graces the public with its totems, erected with objects, stones, wood, seeds and different materials found in their paths.

In the series entitled “multiply”, referring to the body, to the feminine, to reproduction (and everything else that involves this poetics), Eda Miranda construct object with acrylic box, cardboard, canson paper and inkjet printing.

Edna Cup composed a frame of colored light with electroluminescent lamps, MDF, acrylic paint and electrical equipment. The piece will be camouflaged behind a curtain, arousing the curiosity of the public.

Gustavo Alves it achieves, with subtle strokes of gouache on paper, give strength to the two paintings that will be exhibited: the bodies of a woman in profile, in shades of black and brown, and other, seated, in black and yellow.

Using color layers in your work, Ira Etz seeks to lead the viewer to the question; building, deconstructing, unexpected forms emerge that open up to new directions.

Jacqueline Dalsenter intends, with his work “O Peso da Força” leaving a vicious circle for a virtuous circle of the achieved image. In her paintings, she searches for the rescue of contemporary feminine energy (honoring the achievements of their ancestors in the face of an exacerbated patriarchy). Investiga, in his works, its own layers and crossings.

Jose Senna translates into two photographs the beauties of colors, texture and shapes found in the plant world.

The sculptures of Laura Bonfá Burnier, with its organic architecture, play with the overlapping and interactivity of the colored shapes created in EVA.

Marcia Rommes proposes a dialogue between “Barriers and Non-Barriers”, between painting and other languages, using acrylic paintings on canvas placed in acrylic boxes in the Tela Object series.

Maria Cecilia Leão exhibits self-portraits made in June 2022 and edited this year. During a pandemic, watching the light coming from the bedroom window, had the idea of ​​making a series in which he expressed feelings such as anguish, insecurity, wish for a better time and hope for a fresh start.

Works from the series “Visceras da terra”, from Maria Eugênia Baptista, talk about how everyone is interconnected, intertwined in the fabric of life. Painted only with your own hands, the artist used clay, natural oils and resins, pigments and spring water, brought from immersion in nature.

Maria Lucia Maluf interpret, your way, in metal engraving, the pixel theme.

Guest artist from Vitória/ES, Teresinha Mazzei, presents his photography and digital art work based on research and the use of enlarged and transformed images of strands of his hair.

And as is tradition, Paulo Branquinho turns his openings into a big party among friends, artists and art lovers, bustling the quiet Rua Morais e Vale. On 12 will not be different: from 5 pm, there will be a presentation by the Flor Amorosa Trio, with a lot of crying, gherkin, polka and Brazilian instrumental music. Composed by Luís Palumbo (transverse flute), Juan (seven string guitar) and Rodrigo Sebastian (percussion), the group will perform memorable compositions by Pixinguinha, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Ernesto Nazareth, Zequinha de Abreu, among others.

Service:
“Without Barriers”
Opening: day 12 August, Saturday, às 14h
Presentation Trio Flor Amorosa from 17h
Visitation: from 15 august to 2 September 2023
Operation: from Tuesday to Friday, from 14 at 19h
Home of Paul Barry
Address: Rua Morais e Vale, 8/floor, Lapa.
PG
Free entrance