Exhibition "Luiz Aquila The Search for Painting

LUIZ AQUILA

The Search for Painting

 

An individual exhibition curated by Claudia Saldanha opens on 15 December and inaugurates the new space of Galeria Patrícia Costa

 

"Luiz Aquila A Procura da Pintura" lists 15 works by the artist, selected by the curator Claudia Saldanha. The articulation of colours and contrasts through planes and brushstrokes - Aquila's characteristic trait - is manifested in different compositions, with medium and large formats.

 

"The more we walk in this search for painting, the more it distances itself, as if it were a mirage. Despite its concreteness, which is very matter, form, colour, surface, it also haunts as something that cannot be found. This is what stimulates the artist to paint", says Luiz Aquila. 

 

The exhibition marks the inauguration of Galeria Patrícia Costa's new space, which has doubled in size and now occupies 160m². "We are investing in the strength of the art market. We have gone through moments of many uncertainties, yet we have always kept a positive outlook on the future and the direction we intended to take," says Patrícia Costa.

 

"This individual exhibition brings together works from different periods that, according to the artist, are like seasons that manifest themselves in different compositions. There are works from the late 1970s - delicate drawings made in quill pen, treated as a painting that invades a drawing - and other more recent ones. Acrylic paintings with visceral gestures and intense colours in large formats," analyzes the curator, Claudia Saldanha.

 

About the artist

Luiz Aquila creates in painting, drawing and engraving. He was also professor and director of the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, where he exerted a great influence on the New Brazilian Painting, Geração 80. He was born on February 27, 1943, in Rio de Janeiro. Throughout his career, he has participated in over 200 exhibitions (individual and collective) in Brazil and abroad, and was called "hero of his own painting" by the critic Frederico Morais. He participated in the 17th, 18th and 20th São Paulo International Biennale in 1983, 1985 and 1989, respectively, and also in the Venice Biennale. In 1988, he moved to Petrópolis, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro. In 1992, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ) and, in 1993, the Assis Chateaubriand Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP) held retrospective exhibitions of his work. In 2003, a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC-Niterói). In 2013, the artist celebrated five decades of trajectory with a large retrospective at Paço Imperial and in 2019, held the exhibition LUIZ AQUILA- Third Millennium at the National Museum of Fine Arts _(MNBA-RJ)

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"Luiz Aquila - The Search for Painting" - individual exhibition presents 15 works of the artist

Curator: Claudia Saldanha

Opening: 15 December 2021, from 5pm to 9pm

Visitation: from 16 December 2021 to 19 January 2022

Opening hours: Monday to Friday, from 11am to 7pm; Saturday, from 11am to 5pm

Place: Galeria Patrícia Costa

Address: Av. Atlântica, 4.240/shops 224 and 225 - Copacabana - RJ

Telephone: +55 21 2227-6929/98868-1993

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