From tracing the line to superficiality" exhibition

Exhibition

From tracing the line to superficiality

Curator Vinicius Spricigo

Artists: Christina Elias, Clara de Cápua, Rodrigo Linhares, Virgílio Neto

20 mixed media drawings, notebooks, installations and prints

Canvas Gallery

Rua Brigadeiro Galvão, 990 - Barra Funda - São Paulo - whapp - 11 99403 0023

Opening Saturday 09/07/22 from 1 to 5pm

Closure 13/08/22

From 09/07/22 to 13/08/22

Visits from Wednesday to Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.

From tracing the line to superficiality

Curated by Vinicius Spricigo and work of 4 artists: Clara de Cápua, Christina Elias, Rodrigo Linhares and Virgílio Neto. The exhibition brings drawing as the leading thread of the proposal; in which the gesture as the driving force of the act of drawing and the limits of traditional two-dimensional techniques are addressed.

Divided into two axes in which the observer walks through an experimentation of gestures as impulses. Christina Elias uses her own body associated with texts to draw, Clara de Cápua scrutinizes observation drawing in her research, Rodrigo Linhares departs from photographic experiments to reach drawing, and Virgilio Neto frequents a sometimes chaotic universe.

Christina Elias

Performance artist who writes with the body. Her research involves the various layers of the feminine entangled and silenced in women's bodies over time, with a specific focus on the relationships between fragility and power. Evidencing these hidden layers and weaving possible new narrative lines is what she seeks with her artistic activity. Performance is the instrument she uses to write these reflections with her body on different supports such as video, photography, canvases and objects. He has exhibited in several museums and galleries in Brazil and Europe, such as MAC-USP, MAM SP, MIS SP, Paço das Artes, MARP, MAXXI (Rome), Studio Stefania Miscetti (Rome), Radyalsystem (Berlin), among others. Platform Festival (Berlin, 2011), Verbo Festival (Galeria Vermelho, 2015), Dança em Foco Festival (Rio de Janeiro, 2016), SheDevil Festival (Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, 2017), Bump'n Grind Festival (Toronto, Canada, 2019 - best activist video award). FUNARTE Women in Visual Arts Award 2013. Aldir Blanc Visual Arts Award for career history 2020. FUNARTE Respirarte Visual Arts Award 2020. Master in Movement Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (University of London) and PhD in Design from Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (São Paulo). Post-doctorate at PUC-SP on the theme of art, activism and feminism. In Berlin, she was assistant director of choreographer Sasha Walz and practiced Butô with artists such as Yuko Kaseki and Minako Seki. Member of the CEO Centro de Estudos Orientais - PUC/SP. Enjoys threads and thoughts.

Clare of Capua

Clara de Cápua is an artist and her work is developed between performing arts and visual arts. She graduated in Performing Arts (2006) and Master in Arts (2010) from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with the financial support of FAPESP (Brazil). She worked as an actress for many years, acting in plays and in a film. In 2017, she started to dedicate herself to visual arts, mainly through drawing, painting, engraving, video art and intervention on photography. She has participated in national and international group exhibitions. She was selected artist to integrate the XXII Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira¸emPortugal (2022). She has works in the public collection of the Museu da Diversidade Sexual, in São Paulo. She has participated in two international artistic residencies, one in North Macedonia (2017) and another in Iceland (2018-2019). Her videos have been exhibited in Brazil, Germany, Iceland, Romania, Portugal and Iran. She was born in the interior of São Paulo in 1984, but was raised in Mato Grosso do Sul, where she learned to draw with her mother.

Rodrigo Linhares

Graduated in Fine Arts from the Federal University of Santa Maria (RS), researches discursive aspects of visual language through photography, painting and drawing. Since 2014 he is part of Ateliê Fidalga, under the

coordination of the artists Albano Afonso and Sandra Cinto. 

He was selected for the 2020 Project Season of Paço das Artes. He held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of USP - MAC USP (2019 - 2020), at the Ribeirão Preto Museum of Art (2018), at the Adelina Institute (2017) and in the exhibition room at Projeto Fidalga (2016), in São Paulo. He participated in the group shows Project "LIMITE" - Exhibition "Do que se guarda", at the Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto (2019), [DIS]Trópicos, at Funarte SP and Retrotopias, at the independent space Magdalena Laura building, in São Paulo (2018), among others. He was awarded at the 51st Piracicaba Contemporary Art Salon - SAC (2019), the 42nd Ribeirão Preto Art Salon - SARP (2017) and the 44th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon (2016). He had nominations for the PIPA Award (2018) and the 8th edition of the Contemporary Photography Daily Award in Pará (2017).

Virgílio Neto

Brasília, 1996. Currently lives and works in São Paulo is a visual artist and develops his work exploring the language of drawing. Since 2008 constantly participates in exhibitions and projects in art institutions, galleries and independent spaces. He has a master's degree in Contemporary Poetics from the University of Brasília - UnB (2015) where he also graduated in Graphic Design (2008). He has participated in several artistic residencies, such as The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (2013) and Sacatar, on the island of Itaparica (2016). He has seven solo exhibitions, including at Paço das Artes (2019), Espaço Funarte Brasília (2013) and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Campo Grande (2011). He has been nominated twice for the Pipa Investidor de Arte Award (2013, 2014), took first place in the EDP in Arts Award of the Tomie Ohtake Institute (2012) and also awarded in art salons such as Transborda Brasília (2016) and Salão Anapolino de Arte and Salão Nacional de Arte de Jataí (2012). He was selected to participate in group exhibitions such as the Rumos project of Itaú Cultural (2011) and 100 years of Athos Bulcão at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (2018). He has works in the collections of the Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR and Museu de Arte da República, Brasília. He was one of the founding partners of Espaço Cultural Laje, in Brasília, (2011 to 2015) and later founding partner of Espaço BREU in São Paulo (2018 to 2020).