Exhibitions

FRANCISCO GALENO: O Piauí é aqui — o Piauí não é aqui

Critical essay: Leno Veras 12 Nov 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Galatea Oscar Freire Piauí is here — and Piauí is not here Leno Veras The Northern portion of the Brazilian Northeast Coast is marked by its perennial exposure to wind power, which is why the rafts with their colorful sails hoisted in hyperbolic bends have become an allegory commonly attributed to the seamen... Read more

BRUNO NOVELLI: Tudo se transforma na terra

Critical essay: Thierry Freitas 3 Oct - 1 Nov 2024 Galatea Oscar Freire Everything is transformed on earth Upon entering the studio of Bruno Novelli (Fortaleza, CE, 1980) in downtown São Paulo, we find diverse images that give us precious clues regarding his interests. On a coffee table, publications on painting and history are scattered. Our gaze wanders over titles such as Umberto... Read more

MONTEZ MAGNO: entre Morandi, Nordeste e Tantra

Texto crítico [Critical essay]: Clarissa Diniz 29 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 Galatea Padre João Manuel, Galatea Oscar Freire Montez Magno: The Morandian Eclipse and the Coexistence of Sun and Moonlight on the Skin of a Chameleon by Clarissa Diniz “Everything else was eclipsed.” This is how Montez Magno (1934–2023) described his encounter with two works by Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection during a visit to... Read more

Pietrina Checcacci: táticas do corpo

Texto crítico [Critical essay]: Fernanda Morse 4 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 Galatea Oscar Freire The body elevated to landscape Fernanda Morse “I consider all of my work in sequence. I have always been concerned with the human figure. I began with a group of people and then started using just one. Continuing my search, I observed the details, which I kept editing until reaching... Read more

Elza & Gerson: Cada indivíduo é um universo

Textos [Texts by]: Luiz Fernando Pontes e Tomás Toledo 27 Mar - 11 May 2024 Galatea Oscar Freire ELZA & GERSON: EACH INDIVIDUAL IS A UNIVERSE Tomás Toledo The monographic duo exhibition of the artist couple from Pernambuco Elza O. S. (1928, Recife - 2007, Rio de Janeiro) and Gerson de Souza (1926, Recife - 2008, Rio de Janeiro) presents a panoramic selection of their body of work.... Read more

Líquen teso

texto crítico [critical essay]: Fernanda Morse 20 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 Galatea Oscar Freire The sensible thinks Fernanda Morse Symbiotic association between fungi and algae; crust over the bark. Stretched, tense, one-piece, straight; hilltop; hard. Líquen teso [Taut Lichen] speaks of intervention and nature, of the poles and territories through which these works circulate. Camila Leite, Fabiana Preti, Gabriela Melzer, Mariana Rodrigues and... Read more

Aislan Pankararu: mitocôndria ancestral

curadoria: Lisette Lagnado 11 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 Galatea Oscar Freire Aislan's Canticle Lisette Lagnado Follow attentively dot over dot on the raw linen’s surface a point spreading minute and obstinate at first independent loose readily multiplied and absorbed in the weave of crossed lines speckled ducts shambling hatches. From the repetition of minimum units in dozens of shades of white... Read more

Carolina Cordeiro: O tempo é

Essays: Fernanda Morse e Paulo Nazareth 2 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Galatea Oscar Freire holes of light in the sky ---------------------- early signs of time[1] Awah Jeguakaih Rendah* I wanted to see Carolina’s work that looks like a light sky made of heavy metal. – some nocturnal stars emerge from that plate during the day, a constellation I cannot identify. it must be... Read more

Mira Schendel: Toquinhos

Critical essay: Lisette Lagnado 28 Jun - 19 Aug 2023 Galatea Oscar Freire senza metafora[1] Lisette Lagnado — What is left of the tree after its trunk has been cut close to the ground? — A stump, or stub, informs the dictionary. — And if the “stub” alludes to a diminished presence, of lesser order, what to make of a “little stub”? Nevertheless,... Read more

Daniel Lannes: paradises

Critical Essay: Tomás Toledo 11 May - 17 Jun 2023 Galatea Oscar Freire Artificial paradises, lost paradises Tomás Toledo As the visitor enters the show Paradises, by Daniel Lannes, he is confronted by a translucent white curtain, which invites into a nebulous, intimate and dreamlike atmosphere. In this misty vestibule we are questioned by two distinct, but equally magnetic, gazes. The first... Read more

Marilia Kranz: reliefs and paintings

Critical Essay: Fernanda Morse 8 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 Galatea Oscar Freire Marilia Kranz: passionate as a carioca postcard Fernanda Morse Union and geometry: protrusion, grooves fit together, volumes interpenetrate. Marks and bodies in relief, a constructive in permanence on the realm of Eros. (...) Pistils, buds, lianas and vines. Entanglements. Ink, pollen, sweat. Dampness. Canvas, skin and petal. Space, work, body.... Read more