The works are divided into sections, each one highlighting a radical strand of Brazilian and Latin American modern and contemporary production. With a focus on new narratives of local art history, we present a set of works by Afro-Brazilian artists that trace another genealogy of abstraction, while paving the way to a singular figurative matrix that figuration that celebrates aesthetic, ethnic, …
The works are divided into sections, each one highlighting a radical strand of Brazilian and Latin American modern and contemporary production. With a focus on new narratives of local art history, we present a set of works by Afro-Brazilian artists that trace another genealogy of abstraction, while paving the way to a singular figurative matrix that figuration that celebrates aesthetic, ethnic, religious and social diversity. In parallel, a set of works of abstract geometry point to the plurality of languages that manifested themselves in art in the country after the 1940s, in counterpoint to …
