Brazil at Macay Museum

Brazil, one of the Latin American countries at the vanguard of modern art, is present at the Macay Museum and the Pasaje Revolución with the participation of 10 artists, representatives of current art with distinct generations and styles.

In the Pasaje Revolución, the annex forum known as the Open Air Museum, are presenting: Caciporé Torres, Cassio Lázaro, Joao Carlos Goldberg, Julio Jaime Maturro, Margarita Farré, Ricardo Ventura, Sergio Marimba and Walter Guerra, who, from traditional sculpture school to installation, cover different styles, from figurative modernist to abstract.

Two of the masters present in the exhibit are sculptors Margarita Farré, whose work attempts the power of physical expression, and Caciporé Torres, who has left his mark with momumental sculptures in the urban landscape of São Paulo and other cities of Brazil.

The works, except masters Farré and Torres, are so contemporary that they have practically left traditional sculpture, and their works are closer to installation, from the accumulation, the amassing, the recycling, and the industrial design, with materials such as cardboard, steel laminate, iron plaques, wood, aluminum cans, with different finishes: oxidation, lacquer, sealers, or silkscreen.

Also present in the exhibit will be the Brazilian artists Bel Barcellos and Alê Souto, she with 40 designs on paper, nine on sheets and embroidered on 41 canvases and a dress; he with sculpture installation of cardboard.

In rooms 9, 10, and 11, under the name “Fios” (Threads) Bel Barcellos presents a work where body and spirit, reason and emotion polarize the cycles of life. Her designs struggle with vital enigmas in feminine transcendence, allowing us to reflect on what we see or imagine. Her embroidery amplifies this reflection in the direction of time in its multiple meanings; not only chronological or biological, but also emotional and abstract.

Alê Souto’s choice to use cardboard is not a choice for the material itself; the artist is interested in the possibilities of breaking, building and piling up the cubes. In “Mysteries, the Nomads, the Chaos and the Oasis: 4 Reflections on the Streets”, Alê Souto ponders the streets, mixing the two key iniciatives of his work, the change and the complementary, to create new territories or to transmit the rhythm of the city.

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