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arrastar chãos, juntar imbigos
Josi 25/05 - 10/08/2024 São Paulo View Exhibition -
Rumors and Whispers
Ebecho Muslimova 25/05 - 10/08/2024 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Rumors and Whispers, the first solo exhibition by Ebecho Muslimova in São Paulo. Bringing together eight anecdotal images of the artist's anti-heroine and alter ego, Fatebe (FAT-E-be), the exhibition is a playful conversation between two parallel shows, Rumors in Brazil one week and... View Exhibition
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Ode to Twisted Gods
Pol Taburet 8/02 - 16/03/2024 São Paulo Ô paysage de diamant violenté de mains d’acide […] » 1 Anthony Phelps, Motifs pour le temps saisonnier , 1976 Culture is not monolithic; it is a muddy silt that carries with it the stories of great ecstasy of our ancestors as well as their most tragic ones, one... View Exhibition -
It's the way home that moves us away
Carla Zaccagnini & Runo Lagomarsino 8/02 - 16/03/2024 São Paulo Crossings, c omings and goings, departures, returns, and what happens in between, are intertwined into Carla Zaccagnini’s and Runo Lagomarsino’s personal lives and respective works. This exhibition itself is a sort of path , where their trajectories cross and then bifurcate if only to meet again … It is the... View Exhibition -
With Others in Mind
Coco Fusco 25/11/2023 - 24/01/2024 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is please to present Coco Fusco’s first solo exhibition in São Paulo, “With Others in Mind”. The exhibition aims to highlight Coco Fusco's rigorous exploration into the erasure and metamorphosis of cultural identities, particularly in societies shaped by the aftereffects of colonialism. By different mediums such as... View Exhibition -
Nascituras
Rosana Paulino 25/11/2023 - 24/01/2024 São Paulo Nascituras: someone or something yet to be born. The decision to name the exhibition of an artist as prominent as Rosana Paulino Nascituras (nascencies) may seem strange. After all, what could this concept refer to in light of one of the most substantial, striking careers in so-called Brazilian art? A... View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell 2/09 - 4/11/2023 São Paulo Linhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian aphorism “deus escreve certo por linhas tortas”, which literally translates to “god writes straight with crooked lines” and metaphorically to... View Exhibition -
Do cômico e do trágico
Paulo Nimer Pjota 27/05 - 12/08/2023 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present “Do cômico e do trágico” a new solo exhibition by Paulo Nimer Pjota at our Barra Funda space in São Paulo. What are the possible connections between representations of a couple of Buddhist deities, domestic scenes, and the images that decorate both Chinese... View Exhibition -
Some Eyes
Alma Allen 27/05 - 12/08/2023 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Some Eyes , the first solo exhibition of the celebrated US artist and sculptor Alma Allen to take at the gallery’s Barra Funda space in Sao Paulo. Additionally to this being his first exhibition with the gallery in Sao Paulo, it is also... View Exhibition -
Human Nature
Alvaro Barrington 30/03 - 13/05/2023 São Paulo 'I've been in Brazil for nearing two weeks now and I'm two weeks away from my first show in South America. It would be an understatement to say that the region has given me so much. I think less of nation-states more like the notion of regional cousins. My first... View Exhibition -
Signo
Antonio Obá 30/03 - 13/05/2023 São Paulo Antonio Obá considers the drawing as a living thought. The artist returns to the São Paulo venue with an exhibition devoted exclusively to his works on paper - 'an exercise in letting language emerge,' according to Obá. The use of drawing, recurrent in his work and also in his relationship... View Exhibition -
Esfíngico Frontal
Group Show 11/02 - 11/03/2023 São Paulo There is a mystery behind everything. There is a mystery that comes and goes, circulating through our veins, through our viscera, between our fingertips and through every thread of our hair. The same mystery exists in everything that surrounds us: from the earth’s surface to the spheres dancing in the... View Exhibition -
Butterfly Joint
Kentaro Kawabata 11/02 - 11/03/2023 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present – at its gallery space in São Paulo – Kentaro Kawabata’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Titled Butterfly Joint, the show brings together a poignant body of works produced by the Japanese artist, spanning four series of porcelain sculptures that are a testament... View Exhibition -
Mimosa tenuiflora
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa 19/11/2022 - 28/01/2023 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala, 1978) in São Paulo. The exhibit, entitled Mimosa Tenuiflora, brings together video works, paintings, and sculptures – scenarios pervaded by an atmosphere of dream and fantasy, yet communicating an awaken world. Mimosa tenuiflora,... View Exhibition -
Big paintings
Giangiacomo Rossetti 19/11/2022 - 28/01/2023 São Paulo My friend Scott introduced me to Irakli and Dea. He met them at a party in Tbilisi and they told him they were moving to NYC. I needed someone helping me to move some of my paintings from my house to a new studio I just rented and Scott gave... View Exhibition -
Noites de cetim
Paula Siebra 28/08 - 11/11/2022 São Paulo It is dusk on the beach. For a few minutes, the sky looks like ember before cooling down into a blueish black. The landscape eases down, keeping the memory of the day’s past, like an enchantment. Paula Siebra’s Satin Nights are memories of the heat coming from the sun that... View Exhibition -
Creatures
Kasper Bosmans 27/08 - 5/11/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Creatures, Kasper Bosmans’ first solo exhibition in South America, in its new gallery space in Sao Paulo. Known for his multifaceted and divergent approach to art making, with works that range from sculpture and installation to painting and drawing, Bosmans’ practice is a... View Exhibition -
Futurismo
Group Show 20/08 - 5/11/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM in collaboration with Peres Projects is proud to present FUTURISMO, a group show with new works by Dalton Gata, Paolo Salvador, Manuel Solano, and Richard Kennedy. This exhibition balances multiple temporalities as the artists explore and weave together themes such as transformation and emergence with memory and... View Exhibition -
In my dreams, I kill him every night
Sanam Khatibi 4/06 - 6/08/2022 São Paulo Sanam Khatibi’s work explores notions of animality and the primal impulses that we all share. At the core of her practice is a questioning of our relationship with power structures, and the duality of triumph and failure. The recurrent themes that feature in her work are chaos, destruction, excess, loss... View Exhibition -
Inevitable Behavior
Kristy Luck 4/06 - 6/08/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition by artist Kristy Luck at our São Paulo gallery space. Contemplative spaces are not defined on their own – they are, first and foremost, generated by an act of creation. What guides the creation of this space, in the... View Exhibition -
5 Paintings
Marina Perez Simao 2/04 - 29/05/2022 São Paulo Almost-Landscapes There is, it would seem, a paradox between the name of the current exhibition and what is revealed in the works. On the one hand, we have the laconic title 5 Paintings and, on the other hand, we have a series of works in which the generosity of... View Exhibition -
Frozen Gestures
Lynda Benglis 2/04 - 21/05/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition of the seminal American artist Lynda Benglis at its São Paulo gallery. Benglis has played an important role in contemporary art through her innovative use of materials and continued refusal to submit to aesthetic orthodoxies. Benglis’s exhibition in São... View Exhibition -
Ruído
Letícia Ramos 12/02 - 19/03/2022 São Paulo -If you see a big sphere you are probably in danger. In 2013, a mysterious explosion was heard in the far north of Siberia. People living 100km from the site reported seeing the sky glaring. Months later scientists found a new 40 x 30m deep crater in an isolated region... View Exhibition -
In Passing
Miranda Fengyuan Zhang 12/02 - 19/03/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the Shanghai-born and New York-based artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features a group of Zhang’s recently completed hand woven paintings. Zhang’s textile works explore the idea of abstract landscape in relation to the memories.... View Exhibition -
Interspecific Bodies
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel 12/02 - 19/03/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Interspecific Bodies, the first exhibition of British-French duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel in Brazil, bringing together a series of new works, including nine pieces in carved wood, and one sculpture in marble. For over twenty years Dewar and Gicquel have explored and... View Exhibition -
Manikin
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy 12/02 - 19/03/2022 São Paulo In Vladimir Nabokov’s Symbols and Signs (1948) - a short story dear to Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - an institutionalized mental patient suffers from “Referential Mania”, a rare malady whereby the afflicted person believes that everything is conspiring against him through an intricate language of symbols and signs. In a sense, Manikin... View Exhibition -
Noite
Luiz Roque 18/11/2021 - 29/01/2022 São Paulo The stuff that dreams are made of After two decades creating moving images, the new forms presented by Luiz Roque emerge from clay. The ceramics resemble accessories, items to be worn or attached to the body, power objects. Their zoomorphic outlines evoke past worlds or a future where plastic had... View Exhibition -
After the Stone
Paulo Pires 18/11/2021 - 5/02/2022 São Paulo The gravity of the carved matter calls us forth. The sculpted stone sets its magnetic field via a sensitive thread between its primordial condition and the artist’s action. Revealed before our eyes, the forms allow us to see bodies and movements in a singular ecology of minor gestures: an introspective... View Exhibition -
À bença meus padrinhos
Wallace Pato 18/11/2021 - 21/01/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present its first solo show by artist Wallace Pato. The exhibition brings together recent paintings that unravel the core of the artist’s research as a chronicler of carioca samba and the Brazilian working-class suburbs. Pato is a self-taught artist who began his... View Exhibition -
Proscenium
Victor Bengtsson 21/10 - 30/11/2021 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Proscenium –- Danish artist Victor Bengtsson's first solo show in Brazil. The exhibition brings together five paintings made in São Paulo, mapping relationships between mythology, bodily fluids, and mental states. Bengtsson uses jute as material support for his canvases in an attempt to... View Exhibition -
Lágrima
Sonia Gomes 21/08 - 30/09/2021 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present a solo show by artist Sonia Gomes, our latest exhibition at the Rua Consolação space in São Paulo. The current exhibition brings together five works produced during the 2020 pandemic. During her career, spanning 40 years, Gomes has twisted steel structures with the... View Exhibition -
Assum Preto
Lucas Arruda 21/08 - 30/10/2021 São Paulo View Exhibition -
flowers and holes (glory)
Adriano Costa 21/08 - 30/09/2021 São Paulo ‘Homem Burro’ [Dumb Man], a bronze sculpture by Adriano Costa, is pure synthesis. In this ‘small item of adoration, there is imbalance, light and a somber being’. The differences between these states also reflect the impermeable conditions that reign over the artist’s sculptures, drawings and paintings. Costa acts through discrepancy... View Exhibition -
AKEWANI, Prece da Terra
Hariel Revignet 21/08 - 30/09/2021 São Paulo AKEWANI, Earth’s Prayer The poetics of Hariel Revignet draw on the construction of time-spaces able to activate cures for bodies that official narratives have configured as minorities, making use of affect as its process and/or practical action. As such, it is paramount to highlight that the artist’s research focuses on... View Exhibition -
What Am I Doing Here
Zhenya Machneva 26/06 - 31/07/2021 São Paulo What am I doing at the place I don’t belong to? What am I speaking about with the site that never will be mine? What am I trying to find measuring step by step the imaginary of the real world? – These could be the questions everyone faces when meeting... View Exhibition -
Varda Caivano
Varda Caivano 19/06 - 31/07/2021 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Varda Caivano's first exhibition at the gallery’s Sao Paulo space. The exhibition brings together recent paintings andexplores the artist's evolving practice of abstraction. Caivano investigates moments of light and image, almost like an archeologist exploring fossilized rocks. Her work is at... View Exhibition -
In the Thickets of Unexplored Places
Vojtěch Kovařík 19/06 - 31/07/2021 São Paulo For Czech artist, Vojtěch Kovařík, iconography and mythology are fundamental to his work. His large-format, forceful and vividly colored compositions result in impactful paintings that evoke the strength of sculpture. His herculean figures are contorted, seemingly defeated by the frame of the canvas, flaunting their blue, green, and yellow flesh... View Exhibition -
The sun has not yet burned off the dew
Cassi Namoda 3/05 - 12/06/2021 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Cassi Namoda, ‘The sun has not yet burned off the dew’ in Brazil. The Mozambican native artist narrates haunting tableaus of transience, transformation, and silent psychic rumination. Interweaving global spiritualism, religious aphorism, and patchwork tales of... View Exhibition -
Male Nudes
a salon from 1800 to 2021 13/03 - 30/04/2021 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the group exhibition Male Nudity: a salon from 1800 to 2021. Intersecting representations of the male nude, the show proposes to reflect on the concepts of copy, imitation, image, time and decline. According to conventional historiography, the first representation of nudity in the... View Exhibition -
All About the Animal
Maaike Schoorel 13/03 - 19/06/2021 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Maaike Schoorel’s second exhibition in Brazil. All about the animal brings together recent paintings which reflect on nature and illusion through light. Schoorel begins her paintings through photographing landscapes, diluting the shapes found in her images into layers of light. Pandas,... View Exhibition -
Arrebalde
Paula Siebra 30/11/2020 - 31/01/2021 São Paulo Paula Siebra has only recently begun exhibiting her work and this is her first exhibition in São Paulo. As a young artist based in Fortaleza (Ceará), she is still defining her areas of interest. Even though she paints contemporary subjects, her practice evokes the best of 20th-century Latin American painting.... View Exhibition -
Vamos chamar o vento
Patricia Leite 28/11/2020 - 1/02/2021 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is delighted to present Patricia Leite’s fourth solo show at the gallery. Under the title Vamos chamar o vento [Let’s Call the Wind], the exhibition features oil pastel drawings, collages and recent paintings. In Leite’s early painting process, drawing is used as a departure point,... View Exhibition -
noite não noite sim
Paloma Bosquê 11/11/2020 - 31/01/2021 São Paulo noite não noite sim [one other night] , Paloma Bosquê’s third solo show at Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, presents a series of sculptural objects that, by placing in tension the distinction between the animate and the inanimate, reveal the strengthening of the artist’s relationship with the signs and matter... View Exhibition -
Memory as Architecture, Memory as Skin
Heidi Bucher 15/09 - 13/11/2020 São Paulo It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents its first exhibition of Heidi Bucher’s work. Due to these singular times that we are living in, the show will, for the first time in our programme, articulate itself in two iterations, an online presentation that will be continued with... View Exhibition -
Workspaces: redesigned through time
Group Show 26/06 - 1/09/2020 São Paulo Bossa Furniture and Mendes Wood DM present Workspaces: redesigned through time, an exhibition that explores the history of office spaces from 1950 until today. By gathering Brazilian designers and artists such as Geraldo de Barros, Anna Bella Geiger, Joaquim Tenreiro, Lorenzato, Jorge Zalzuspin, Rosana Paulino, Carlo Hauner and many others,... View Exhibition -
CONSTRUÇÃO
Group Show 6/02 - 30/04/2020 São Paulo Organized by Renato Silva Adriana Varejão, Adriano Costa, Ana Mendieta, Anna Bella Geiger, Antonio Dias, Antonio Obá, Carla Zaccagnini, Carlos Vergara, Claudia Andujar, Coco Fusco, Dalton Paula, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Deyson Gilbert, Doris Salcedo, Éder Oliveira, Fernanda Andrade, Flávio Cerqueira, Gustavo Speridião, Hariel Revignet, Jac Leirner, Lawrence Weiner, Lucas Arruda,... View Exhibition -
Bebê Rasteja
Santiago de Paoli 23/11/2019 - 24/01/2020 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Argentine artist Santiago de Paoli in Brazil. Bebê Rasteja brings together recent oil paintings on felt, copper, cardboard, plaster and wood. De Paoli develops his painting in a particular sphere of discussion about the image, bringing... View Exhibition -
BÚFALA
Rosana Paulino 23/11/2019 - 24/01/2020 São Paulo It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM São Paulo presents BÚFALA (in Portuguese, female buffalo), Rosana Paulino’s first solo show at the gallery. The exhibition brings together recent and earlier works in which the São Paulo-born artist uses multiple media, such as drawing, textile and sculpture. Since the... View Exhibition -
Veredas
Group Show 23/11/2019 - 24/01/2020 São Paulo The Under and Over-Mapped: Nonada Nonada: with this word João Guimarães Rosa opens his seminal novel The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956). Contrary to speculation, nonada is an invented word. Portuguese dictionaries describe its as ‘next to nothing’ or ‘pittance’. However, the word can be considered an aiming... View Exhibition -
Conversations on limits and unlimits
Anna Boghiguian 28/08 - 14/11/2019 São Paulo Women can’t write, women can’t paint but what have I done with my life? The truth should be spoken courageously I want to put into words but without description the existence of the cave that some time ago I painted-and I don't know how. To remake myself and remake you... View Exhibition -
Après nous le déluge
Mimi Lauter 24/08 - 14/11/2019 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter's first solo exhibition in Brazil. Entitled Apres nous, le deluge, the exhibition brings together recent oil and soft pastel paintings on paper. The works are comprised of expansive fields of layered colors and swirling textures assembling... View Exhibition -
THE ASHES, THE MIRROR, THE REVERSE OF BRIGHTNESS AND THE BECOMING OF FIRE
Sofia Borges 4/06 - 18/05/2019 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Sofia Borges at the gallery. Working primarily with photography, the artist creates her images by combining and overlying the incognito in a constant process of excavation - often creating subtracted images from other images, thus proposing... View Exhibition -
Parques e outros pretextos, curated by Camila Bechelany
Patricia Leite and Cristiano Rennó 25/05 - 14/08/2019 São Paulo View Exhibition -
Sentinela
Antonio Obá 4/04 - 18/05/2019 São Paulo Antonio Obá develops his body of work through a road linking colonial Brazil and contemporary Brazil. Also, he walks on this road from the moment he begins to understand the black body and the black individual in the construction of history. This understanding came at the beginning of his relationship... View Exhibition -
Questão de Ordem
Deyson Gilbert 9/02 - 20/03/2019 São Paulo The work of Deyson Gilbert is marked by the physical and formal tension to which his pieces are exposed; the way they interact with the spectator; and the presence of two or more elements (objects, graphic signs etc.) joined together by provisional fittings, oscillating points of support or openly impudent... View Exhibition -
Fevereiro
Group Show 9/02 - 20/03/2019 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the group show February, with the artist Camile Sproesser, Gokula Stoffel and Thomaz Rosa. Through painting in their different formalizations and researches, the artists express their deepening about the perennial issues of their time. Away from the ambition to rationalize or... View Exhibition -
Sonia Gomes & Marga Ledora
Sonia Gomes 24/11/2018 - 31/01/2019 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Sonia Gomes and Marga Ledora's duo exhibition at the gallery. Sonia Gomes works with sculpture and installations made with different materials from varied backgrounds – such as clothes and furniture – playing with potential combinations between them. Her compositions stem from... View Exhibition -
Kishio Suga
24/11/2018 - 31/01/2019 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the japanese artist Kishio Suga’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Kishio Suga is one of Japan’s most celebrated artists, whose diverse and influential practice spans site-specific installation, assemblage, and performance. Suga, just as the whole generation of artists his period came... View Exhibition -
Rubem Valentim 24/11/2018 - 31/01/2019 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Rubem Valentim in the gallery. Rubem Valentim began to produce work in the late 1940s. A self-taught painter. Valentim’s works unite various sources of Brazilian cultural heritage; referencing popular traditions from Northeastern ceramic production in Bahia... View Exhibition
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Daniel Steegmann Mnagrané 18/08 - 4/11/2018 São Paulo View Exhibition
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Lucas Arruda
18/08 - 4/11/2018 São Paulo I don’t know if you can hear it. We are all holding our breath. The gloves has been taken off him. There are four men in the corner Facing him Paret may draw a warning in the moment. Stretched out in the corner, just above us, in the neutral corner.... View Exhibition -
TRECHERO
Paulo Nazareth 18/08 - 4/11/2018 São Paulo L'Arbre D'Oublier (Tree of Forgetfulness) 2013, video, 27'31 'During the slave trade from the African continent to America the men and women who were taken from their lands and arrived at the port of departure into an unknowing future - before crossing the Atlantic - had as their last alternative... View Exhibition -
Alface
Marcelo Cipis 26/05 - 28/07/2018 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Alface, Marcelo Cipis’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. This show unites paintings from the 90s and recent works, and introduces the artist’s ruleless gaze, humorously questioning the duty of painting at times of mass production. The first room introduces some works from... View Exhibition -
We Chose Life . What Now, Georg? Tshirts ?
Adriano Costa 26/05 - 28/07/2018 São Paulo You want to know about the show. What it will be ... good question. It's my second show in the main gallery room. I'll use two spaces, the back room as well. Which is really cool. The show has a lot of lack of control not only mine, but of... View Exhibition -
Medley
Paulo Nimer Pjota 7/04 - 5/05/2018 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of Paulo Nimer Pjota in the gallery. Continuing his research into the iconographic structures that comprise the collective imagination of art history and inhabit the universe of mass culture, the artist uses metal plates and raw canvas... View Exhibition -
No element, however has the final word in the construction of the future
Runo Lagomarsino 7/04 - 17/05/2018 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of the Swedish-Argentine artist Runo Lagomarsino. Lagomarsino unites new and previous works that elaborate on the legacy of colonialism, geopolitics, cultural boundaries andpower relations from an almost untraceable melancholic perspective. In the first room, the wall is... View Exhibition -
Ken Kagami & Trevor Shimizu 23/02 - 25/03/2018 São Paulo Trevor Shimizu: Hi Ken, I am writing about our upcoming show together. It is our first show since 2012, HOT. Five years ago. What have you been up to since then? Ken Kagami: It's been five years since the HOT exhibition! I feel as though time has passed so quickly.... View Exhibition
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rivieras___bags___scarves___alps
Fernando Marques Penteado 23/02 - 25/03/2018 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present rivieras___bags___scarves___alps, the third individual exhibition of the Brazilian artist f.marquespenteado at the gallery. The artist invites the visitors on a journey to a distant place, of an old-fashion glamour, Rivieras and Alps, casinos, fiscal and touristic paradises. In his new series made from... View Exhibition -
Our dog-eyes
Marina Perez Simão 22/02 - 23/03/2018 São Paulo I was born mathematician, wizard I was born poet. The cross on the forehead The dry laugh The scream I discover myself king Sequined by shadow The knives punching Time and sensibility – Hilda Hilst Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the fourth individual exhibition of the artist... View Exhibition -
Polyethylene-Insulated Smear
Nina Canell 25/11/2017 - 30/01/2018 São Paulo 'Ready to join the migration my mail might have gotten lost from server to floral chorus in a spam filter taking the infinitesimal conduction of trees into account in the process so that you don't think I'm entirely some sort of medieval hermit with vegetable metabolism marked unread on an... View Exhibition -
Paulo Monteiro
Paulo Monteiro 25/11/2017 - 2/02/2018 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Paulo Monteiro’s third solo exhibition in the gallery. In a selection of sculptures and wall reliefs in cold porcelain, the artist revisits works in bronze from 1987 that record the form of the hands, wrist and fingers or, at other times, a body... View Exhibition -
Eary Poise
Iulia Nistor 25/11/2017 - 2/01/2018 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Eary Poise, Iulia Nistor’s first solo exhibition in São Paulo. The artist introduces her new paintings on wood. These works are the result ofa method that consists in overlapping various layers of paint and repeatedly removing them with paper pressings and sandpaper. The... View Exhibition -
20xx
Neïl Beloufa 27/09 - 12/11/2017 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present 20xx, Neïl Beloufa’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Revolving around the multiple paradoxes inherent to our consumer culture, the artist presents a series of new works that appropriate commercial images in order to look at contemporary systems of representation. He shows a... View Exhibition -
Hall
Luiz Roque 12/08 - 16/09/2017 São Paulo A hall is a hall: An architectural element that works as a division between the centre of a building and its exterior. The immediate space after the entrance, designed to welcome, to provide shelter to strangers and first contact with familiar faces before entering the comfort of home. Here, the... View Exhibition -
Wrong Happy Hour
Aki Sasamoto 12/08 - 16/09/2017 São Paulo It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents the first solo exhibition by Japanese artist Aki Sasamoto in Brazil. The show springs from a performance titled Wrong Happy Hour . For this project, the artist has gathered drawings, installations, videos and performances. Sasamoto’s practice draws on the common... View Exhibition -
Planisphere
Letícia Ramos 25/05 - 29/07/2017 São Paulo Before you got here In the book The Lost World, we have an unnamed character who is present in all its 587 pages. It is a voice in first person binding the narrative which becomes increasingly dense throughout the book’s only two chapters: Origins and Organisation. The book tells the... View Exhibition -
True Myths
Julie Beaufils 25/05 - 29/07/2017 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to feature the project True Myths of French artist Julie Beaufils in Brazil. Based on an observation of the city as an organism in function of time, the artist displays a series of paintings that the spectator could observe as an exercise of temporal displacement.... View Exhibition -
The Telomeric Cut
Felipe Meres 25/05 - 29/07/2017 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present The Telomeric Cut, Felipe Meres’s first project in Sao Paulo. Working across media, Meres’s work weaves entanglements between scientific desire and the indeterminate matter that ceaselessly evades its grasp. The exhibition features all new work, including a series of microscopic images that unfurl... View Exhibition -
Lotus Lobo
12/04 - 5/05/2017 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present for the first time the exhibition of the artist Lotus Lobo in the gallery. Engraver and designer, Lotus is one of the important names of lithography in Brazil. In the year 1962, the artist began the Fine Arts course at Guignard School, going... View Exhibition -
Dadamaino
8/04 - 14/06/2017 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the Italian artist Dadamaino’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. As one of the few women active in the artistic scene of her time, Dadamaino became a powerful voice in the context of social and cultural transformations and established a direct dialogue with the... View Exhibition -
Old Hope
Paulo Nazareth 8/04 - 20/05/2017 São Paulo It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Paulo Nazareth’s third exhibition at the gallery. The artist lives and works in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The show brings together recent works that question aspects of Brazilian art history from the modernist period until today; the commercialisation resulting from the... View Exhibition -
Antônio Obá
18/02 - 26/03/2017 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure to present the first solo show in São Paulo by the artist Antônio Obá. The artworks exhibited encompass a diversity of supports and media, such as painting, monotype, installation and performance. The artist incorporates Brazilian religious icons to question a racial and political identity... View Exhibition