Still lifes, portraits and landscapes

Still Lifes, Portraits and Landscapes | Group Show | Galeria Casa

Curated by Bernardo Scartezini and Dalton Camargos, an exhibition brings together ten visual artists from Brasilia of different generations who work and reinvent three ancestral figurative genres through painting

Curated by Bernardo Scartezini and Dalton Camargos, on July 9, from 17h, the Casa Gallery receives the group show"Still lifes, portraits and landscapes". In this exhibition, the curators propose to present a selection of recent production in painting by visual artists from Brasilia and different generations. Participating in the exhibition are Adriane Kariú Oliveira, Brida Abajur, Camila Soato, Courinos, Gustavo Silvamaral, Lorenzo Cordella, Ly Assunção, Nelson Maravalhas, Romulo Barros and Silvie Eidam . On exhibition until July 31st , the visitation is from Tuesday to Saturday, from 2pm to 10pm, and Sunday, from 12pm to 8pm. Admission is free and the indicative classification is free for all audiences. Casa Gallery is located at Casapark, on the upper floor, inside Livraria da Travessa.  

Dalton Camargos, programmer of Alfinete Galeria, had the idea of taking advantage of the date offered to him at Galeria Casa to take to Casapark's public an exhibition of paintings. To define the works to be exhibited, he made use of the permanent field work he has been developing since he opened Alfinete, almost ten years ago. This time, Camargos counted for that with the collaboration of Bernardo Scartezini, journalist and art critic, who has also been circulating in the visual arts scene in Brasilia during the same period.

Camargos and Scartezini started from artists with whom they already have contact, such as Nelson Maravalhas, visiting the atelier of Córrego do Urubu to take dimension of the painter's current production. Afterwards, on seeing recent works by Gustavo Silvamaral and Romulo Barros, it became clear to them that the exhibition had a figurative emphasis. And soon the names of artists with such an inclination emerged, such as Camila Soato and Silvie Eidam. In their search for dialogue between the works, Camargos and Scartezini chose the title "Still Lifes, Portraits and Landscapes" because they perceived in the works brought together, despite the characteristics of each artist and the themes of the moment, the permanence and reinvention of these three ancestral figurative genres.

During the exhibition season, on a date yet to be defined, the artist Courinos is scheduled to participate with an intervention on the bus-gallery Mr. Truque in the internal car park of Casapark.

About the artists

Artist, tattooist and designer, Adriane Kariú Oliveira was born in Gama - DF, with roots in Ceará. She graduated in Fashion Design at the Instituto de Ensino Superior de Brasília - IESB and is currently in the last semester of her degree in Visual Arts at the University of Brasília - UnB. Her artistic research is an investigation of the body's experience on the physical and metaphysical, the collective unconscious, deterritorialization, family memory and the return of attention to living things. She also addresses themes of maternity, identity and counter coloniality through observation, recording, experimentation, image collecting, displacement of meaning and scrutiny of the canons of art tradition. She works with painting, digital art, drawing, photography, collage, engraving, animation and sculpture as her languages. He is a member of the Tamain Indigenous Art Collective.

Brida Abajur (1996) lives and works in Brasília. She has a bachelor's degree in visual arts from UnB. Her research - which includes the language of video, drawing, painting and objects - explores playful, grotesque and kitsch elements, aiming to affectively understand the narratives behind the way things exist.

Camila Soato was born in Brasília, DF, in 1985. She works mainly on the following themes: contemporary art, feminism, fulerage, gender and painting. She lives and works between Brasília - DF and Planaltina - GO. She develops practical-theoretical research in painting, drawing and performance. Through expressive brushstrokes and even with a certain aggressiveness in her paintings, she combines comic images appropriated from banal daily life, works with the praise of carelessness, assuming the error as poetic indices. Smudges, stains and dirt, originating from a working method that favours improvisation, are protagonists together with clumsy or perverse characters in odd scenes. All this is juxtaposed with bizarre narratives.

Courinos, born in Brasília (DF), 1995, holds a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the University of Brasília in 2018. Currently, he dedicates himself mainly to painting. His issues walk through the exercise of production as a craft and its conflicts with the unpretentiousness, the relationships between outsiders and consecrated references, the encounters between the rough and the delicate, the materiality of painting and the expansion of the pictorial space. In the brutality of painting, the possibility of transcribing the rawness of small observations about the world.

Gustavo Silvamaral has a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from the University of Brasilia (UnB), born in Brasilia where he still develops his work today. The artist builds a continuous dialogue with the pictorial language, regardless of the support he uses, he positions himself as a painter. There is an insistence on thinking the monochrome, placing colour as the protagonist of the work, thinking its relationship with space. Silva's yellow and its possible meanings are always being negotiated between the work and those who look at it, it is a potency in itself and in the relationship it intends.

Lorenzo Cordella, 22 years old, raised in Brasilia, now lives in São Paulo. He is student of Visual Arts and painter. Much inspired by cinema and photography, his paintings portray mainly figures of reality, paralyzing ephemeral and everyday moments from concrete forms and sensitive brushstrokes.

Ly Assunção has a degree in Applied Foreign Languages - LEA MSI - from UnB and is an artist and cultural producer. She debuted as an artist in 2020 at Savta Gallery in the group exhibition Mecanismo para Adiar o Fim. In 2021 she participated in the Festival Desenho Vivo- CCBB Brasília, giving a workshop on experimental drawing for children. She also works as a Spanish translator in the arts area and translated the text Imagem Réptil - Notas Sobre Narciso e Hermafrodita by Luis Pérez Oramas, published during the Festival Desenho Vivo. Engaged in culture, she has been working as a producer for 8 years, working on the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema in 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2021 and on the Exhibition 50 Years of Realism: from Photorealism to Virtual Reality at CCBB Brasília and the 4th Book and Reading Biennial, both in 2018. She currently works as a producer for the Educativo do Museu Nacional and in projects that take public schools to the theatre and exhibitions in DF. She recently promoted a free course in artistic mediation held at Espaço Cultural Renato Russo. The artist began her research in painting in 2019, with experimental works in various materials, such as paper, cardboard, mascara and grease. She later moved on to pigments such as acrylic and oil using canvas as a support. Her work permeates through themes such as religion and politics, portraying subjective memories together with the rescue of Brazil's history.

Born in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, 1956; lived in Manaus, Itabuna and settled in Brasilia in 1967, Nelson Maravalhas is Graduated in Art Education from UnB in 1981, MA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984-6, PhD in Theory and History of Art from the University of Kent at Canterbury, 1997-2001, and post-doctoral studies at the Universität Heidelberg, 2013. He works exclusively with allegorical figuration, in which people do something, somewhere, for a certain amount of time. They are irreversible situations, in which a proposition of verbal nature is staged with subject, verb, object and predicate. He has had solo exhibitions in Cuiabá, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, São Paulo and Florianópolis, and group exhibitions in Goiânia, Recife, Curitiba, Toronto, Amsterdam, Berlin and Leipzig.

Rômulo Barroswas born and raised in the interior of Minas Gerais, a social environment where behavioural patterns culminate in the repetition of local stories, a process in which everyone ends up in the same bundle. He observes these experiences and inserts them in his production. Always questioning his own identity, he tries to express his own perspective, of a being that searches, in himself and in his memory and ancestry, a relationship of affection, bond, flux and ebb. Currently has an artistic production that wanders through the fields of painting, installation, sculpture and engraving. She uses processes that involve handcraft and craftsmanship and makes use of very diverse materials, mostly cheesy, but that carry subjectivity and meaning when they are sewn, punctured, glued, tied, aggregated, disorganized, sculpted, emptied and filled.

Silvie Eidam was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and currently lives in Brazil. She was a student of local artists Andrea Simon and Beatrix Pohle-Stiehl, and continued her education by studying visual arts at the University of Brasilia and Goldsmiths College in London. During her years at university she was an active member of feminist activist groups in Brasilia and London focusing her art on representations of the female body and political identities in a wide variety of media, participating in group exhibitions since 2005. Lately, she has been researching the theme of death and its visual and emotional manifestations in the world of the living.

About the curators

Bernardo Scartezini is a journalist, art critic and music programmer. He graduated in Social Communication and in Theory, Criticism and History of Art from the University of Brasilia (UnB). Since the 1990s, he has had a trajectory in cultural journalism, having worked in vehicles such as Correio Braziliense, Jornal do Brasil, Veja Brasília and Metrópoles. As a music programmer, he produced and presented the shows Marco Zero and Anjos da Noite on Cultura FM and Câmara FM radios. Currently, he collaborates with Cult 22 and hosts Bloodbuzz (both at cult22.com).

Dalton Camargos is a photographer, illuminator, founder and artistic programmer of Alfinete Galeria, working professionally in the areas of theatre, dance, visual arts, video and photography since 1992.

About the curator of Galeria Casa

Carlos Silva was born in 1963 in Barretos (SP). He lives and works in Brasilia since 1982. He works as a visual artist, historian, master in art, specialist in psychology and education, teacher, independent curator, critic, coordinator of free courses and educational programs in visual arts, gallery director, consultant, creative director. He was a member of the DF Council of Culture and a professor at the UnB Arts Department. As curator and assistant, he signed "suspensões", "a seco", "fora do lugar" and "100 anos de Athos Bulcão". Participates in solo and group exhibitions. Works at the interface between art, history, literature, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Frequently publishes technical and poetic texts.

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Still lifes, portraits and landscapes

Painting collective

Artists | Adriane Kariú Oliveira, Brida Abajur, Camila Soato, Courinos, Gustavo Silvamaral, Lorenzo Cordella, Ly Assunção, Nelson Maravalhas, Romulo Barros and Silvie Eidam

Curatorship | Bernardo Scartezini and Dalton Camargos

Opening | 9 July 2022

                    From 5pm

Where | Casa Gallery

              Casapark, Superior Floor, inside Livraria da Travessa

Visitation | until 31 July

                    Tuesday to Saturday, from 2pm to 10pm

                    Sunday, from 12h to 20h

Admission | Free of charge

Classification Classification Classification | Free for all public

Instagram | @galeria_casa

Address | SGCV Lot 22, Brasília - DF

Contacts | +55 (61) 3403-5300

                    @casapark