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Carpintaria, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel's venue in Rio de Janeiro, presents Corpo e construção [Body and Construction], Ivens Machado's first gallery exhibition after his sudden passing in 2015. The show presents six sculptures made from 1991 to 2005, a photo tryptic from Performance with Surgical Bandages, 1973, and a series of photographic records of said performance, recently recovered from the artist's negatives.
Ivens Machado used raw materials from the construction industry, such as concrete, steel beams and wood, handling them in such way as to reorganize the codes of …