Paulo Pasta will open his new solo show, Para que serve uma pintura, on March 2 at the Fundação Iberê in Porto Alegre. Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog featuring a critical essay by Lorenzo Mammì.

The showcase comprises 40 works, many of which are previously unseen. The collection includes pieces of varying dimensions and formats, presented on both canvas and paper—a body of work that demonstrates Pasta's profound mastery of and appreciation for his practice. 

As Mammì writes, "a TV or computer screen will never be a thing, and neither will the images that appear on it. They can never be anything other than what they are. A painting is, and it is placed (especially in Pasta's case) exactly in that interval in which a thing becomes an image (the pigment becomes color; the canvas becomes a figure) and vice versa. A kind of pause, a syncope, in which we detach ourselves from the world and test our freedom from it."

Pasta also curated Eclipses, an exhibition that brings together paintings by Iberê Camargo with a focus on the perception of color and luminosity, opening on the same day.

 "I find the best metaphor for Iberê's colors to be that of an eclipse. Beyond the nocturne aspect of his works, the light he built seems not to illuminate, not to warm, somewhat like the suggestion of a sun that has been closed," writes Pasta. 

On the opening day of the exhibition, Paulo Pasta and Lorenzo Mammì invite the public to a conversation about painting at 3:30 pm in the Fundação Iberê auditorium.

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