Exhibition "Breaking the surface is opening a river inwards

The uneasiness of the current days is the core of the exhibition "Breaking the surface is opening a river inside", promoted by Hermes Artes Visuais, which will open on 12 March, at 11am, at Espaço Fonte, in São Paulo. The multimedia show has free entrance and can be visited until April 9th. Organized by Carla Chaim, Nino Cais and with a critical text by the curator Paloma Durante, it brings together works by 20 artists, created especially for the event, who meet weekly to discuss the production of their works and the challenges of the art scene. 

Hermes Artes Visuais is an independent art space that for 11 years has promoted, through courses, debates, exhibitions and other collective proposals, the critical maturation of artists in various stages of their production. The collective of 20 artists who make up the exhibition has been meeting weekly for around three years and since last year has focused on the proposal to translate into art the individual's relationship with the marks and scars left by the current instability of the country and the world. 

The artists live in different regions of Brazil such as São Paulo, Bahia and Goiás, among others. "The exhibition is a representation of the dilemmas, concepts, provocations that we have, how these exchanges are, how dialogues become scars in these times that demand new postures", Carla Chaim pointed out. According to her, the whole discussion converges in artistic representations of various techniques, such as videos, photographs, paintings, drawings, site specifics and performances that will take place on site. 

Each artist has produced one to three works to be exhibited in the show. The works will be for sale. The exhibition brings to the public the realisation of a project that is both individual and collective, based on the perspectives of each artist, but also the result of the joint visions worked on during the weekly meetings. "It is the creation process of each one, but it is also a collective creation process, revealing the personal and global creative power," summed up Nino Cais. 

According to Carla Chaim, "Breaking the surface is opening a river inwards" seeks to publicise the artists' work and also to foster relationships between the public and the works. "Art needs the artist, needs the work of art and needs the viewer. In this triad, the work is formed, strengthened and transformed," he said. In 11 years of activity, Hermes Artes Visuais has already promoted more than 40 exhibitions, materializing works of about 60 artists that integrate the project. 

 

To break the surface is to open a river inwards 

Artists: 

Adriana Amaral - Ribeirão Preto - SP

Ana Rey - Córdoba - Argentina - Lives in São Paulo - SP

André Felipe Cardoso - Goiás - GO

Cassia Cola - Araçatuba - SP - Lives in Ribeirão Preto - SP

Cristina Lisot - Caxias do Sul - RS - Brazil

Cynthia Loeb - São Paulo - SP

Debora Rayel Eva - Santos - SP - Lives in São Paulo - SP

Guilherme Borsatto - São Paulo - SP

Jota Testi - Barreiras - BA - Lives in Taguatinga - DF

Luana Lins - São Paulo - SP

Luiza Lavorato - Belém - PA - Lives in São Paulo - SP

Marinalva Rosa - Imbé de Minas - MG

Michelle Rosset - São Paulo - SP

Miriam Bratfisch Santiago - Sorocaba - SP - Lives in São Paulo - SP

Patrícia Abbott - Brasília - DF

Simone Dutra - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Lives in São Paulo - SP

Simone Fontana Reis - São Paulo - SP

Sofia Saleme - São Paulo - SP

Susy Miranda Aziz - São Paulo - SP

Yohana Oizumi - Rubiataba - GO - Lives in São Paulo - SP

 

Organisation:

Carla Chaim and Nino Cais

Critical text: 

Paloma Durante

Realisation: 

Hermes Visual Arts

Production: 

Maria Livman, Niki Nomura and Sofia Saleme

Opening:

12 March, from 11am to 6pm

Visitation:

From 12 March to 9 April

Wednesday to Saturday, from 11am to 6pm

Free entry

Venue:

Fountain Space

Rua Mourato Coelho, 751

Vila Madalena

São Paulo

Sponsorship:

Becks

 

About Carla Chaim

Visual artist, manager and advisor of Hermes Artes Visuais, she is a Master's student at ECA - USP. Produces works in various media, in which she seeks to overcome the limits of the traditional conception of drawing, which appears as a trace of the body's action on a given support. Carla has participated in several artistic residencies, including AnnexB, New York (2018), and The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada (2010). Her current projects include the individual Febre, at Galeria Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo (2021); Ella, at Fernando Pradilla Galería, Madrid, Spain (2020), and the installation of the arena/palco for the performance presentations in Histórias da Dança, MASP, São Paulo (2020), when her work was acquired by the museum's collection. Carla Chaim has received awards in Brazil such as CCBB Contemporary and FOCO Bradesco ArtRio, both in 2015, in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In previous years she received Funarte Contemporary Art Award and Energies in Art Award. In 2016, Carla was nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize, where, in 2017, she presented installations and photographs at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, and at Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice, Italy, in a collateral event to the Venice Biennale. His work is part of collections such as Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Miami, USA; Museu de Arte do Rio - MAR, Rio de Janeiro; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; and Ministério das Relações Exteriores, Itamaraty, Brasilia.

 

About Nino Cais 

Visual artist and advisor at Hermes Artes Visuais, makes use of elements of everyday life associated with the image of the human body, often of the artist himself, superimposing these figures in collages, videos, photographs, drawings and three-dimensional objects. Nino Cais has had solo exhibitions such as: Poema a Dois/Cartas Queimadas, at Fonte, in São Paulo (2021); A Fábrica do Corpo Humano, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo (2020); Don't Turn of the Light, Fridman Gallery, New York, USA (2018); Ópera do Vento, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo (2017); Central Galeria, São Paulo; and Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015). Selected group exhibitions: Sartori Collection - The contemporary art inhabits Antônio Prado, curated by Paulo Herkenhoff, MARGS - Museum of Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2022); Disappearing Tactics, Paço das Artes, São Paulo (2021); Transbordar: Transgressions of Embroidery in Art, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo (2020); Pinacoteca: Collection, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo (2020); Against, Again: Art Under Attack in Brazil, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, Johnfoy College, New York, USA (2020); What my body knows: Photographs in friction at EAV Parque Lage and Memória Coleção Parque Lage, EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro (2019); Waving and Wavering, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA (2018); Ação e Reação, Casa do Brasil, Cultural Sector of the Brazilian Embassy, Madrid, Spain (2018); Queermuseu - cartographies of difference in Brazilian art, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre (2017). He was awarded Mapped at Rumos Artes Visuais, São Paulo; Acquisitive Prize, Acervo MARP, Ribeirão Preto; Outstanding, Bolsa Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre; Marcantônio Vilaça Fine Arts Prize, FUNARTE, São Paulo. His work is in public collections such as Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo; among others.

 

About Hermes Artes Visuais

Independent space that, since 2011, has acted in the gap between training and the market. Through courses, debates, exhibitions, collective proposals, artistic residencies and project monitoring groups, it has sought to promote the critical maturation of the artist, in a space where theoretical practices are linked to artistic production. Directed by the artist Carla Chaim, the Hermes has become an environment to share knowledge and experiences in different levels and configurations, providing experiences, stimuli and complementary formation for the artists, besides being a platform able to boost and intensify art in people's lives: broadening the gaze and making it more critical and sensitive. Currently, the Hermes operates with three regular groups for Accompanying Projects, guided by the artists Carla Chaim, Marcelo Amorim and Nino Cais. With this, it receives weekly about 50 artists frequenting the space. Besides the regular groups, there is a program of talks, courses and workshops, always focused on contemporary production.