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In pursuit of a formal language reduced to the minimum of elements, Paulo Monteiro has conceived The Color of Distance, his first individual exhibition at Mendes Wood DM in Brussels. Serving as a spatial meditation, the exhibition presents a subtle arrangement of recent works in which color and its atmospheric powers flow into the insistence of the body and its material presence.

What strikes at first is the materiality of the works on view, in which matter is made visible in different and ambivalent ways. A recurring and transforming oval shape structures the plane of linen canvases. The …