SP-Arte Viewing Room 2021

For SP-Arte Viewing Room 2021, a Galeria Millan presents the project Material Rhapsody, which brings a selection of works by 17 artists: Ana Prata, Anna Maria Maiolino, Antonio Dias, Artur Barrio, Elena Damiani, Emmanuel Nassar, Jaider Esbell, José Damasceno, Miguel Rio Branco, Mira Schendel, Paulo Pasta, Rodrigo Andrade, Tatiana Blass, Thiago Martins de Melo, Túlio Pinto e Tunga.

José Damasceno uses a wide variety of techniques to investigate the limits of sculpture, proposing a conceptual game in which he subverts the logic of objects, presenting them in a kind of permanent movement. Túlio Pinto’s works, on the other hand, are situated between sculpture and installation and test the physical and visual capacities of the material. Antonio Dias also proposes an inversion of the meaning of things by stimulating the observer to an optical action to complete the possibilities of forms. Anna Maria Maiolino and Tunga’s practice moves as freely as Damasceno and Dias’s. The latter presents, in his works, a corporeal perspective that transgresses boundaries in the scope of artistic expression and other human practices.

The transgressive character also marks the poetics of Artur Barrio, who radically expands the limits of artistic experience through actions that make the social normative gaze erupt. Theater, body, eroticism and vulnerability permeate Regina Parra’s work while human paradoxes, including themes such as sexuality and violence, are approached by Miguel Rio Branco based on cinematographic language and the construction of polyptychs with chromatic contrasts. Images taken from books, videos and public records make up the work of Elena Damiani. The set also includes a selection of artists whose path of pictorial experimentation is essentially dynamic, sometimes as a variation of techniques, supports, genres and scales — such as Emmanuel Nassar, Mira Schendel, Rodrigo Andrade and Paulo Pasta — sometimes projecting themselves in complex installations, as in the case of Ana Prata, Jaider Esbell, Tatiana Blass and Thiago Martins de Melo.

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