DOGMA – ARTHUR PALHANO

11.02 – 18.03.2023 [ Extended until 25.03 ]

Portas Vilaseca is pleased to present “DOGMA”, Arthur Palhano’s new solo show, curated by Clarissa Diniz.

Taking up three floors of the gallery space in Botafogo, the exhibition brings together works that the Rio de Janeiro-born and São Paulo-based artist has been developing over the last three years, crossing different languages, themes and periods.

The works also reveal some of the main interests and procedures of Palhano’s practice. This is the case, for example, of the presence of different instances of the “icon”, to which Palhano dedicates himself with the intention of approaching the ways in which an icon is socially and aesthetically produced and celebrated, but also profaned, challenged, deconstructed. In this investigation, he evokes the history of art, Christianity and the school, making a critique that is as aesthetic as it is political to the ways in which we fictionalize our adoration, beliefs and judgments.

The exhibition presents works that deepen the presence of life, death, time and (im)permanence in the artist’s path. To this end, it brings together unpublished drawings and paintings around the genre of still life, as well as works in virtual reality and appropriations.

“DOGMA” is a unique opportunity to get in touch with the work of this artist who both reveres and confronts the canonical history of art and his own position within it, in order to circumscribe aesthetic-political issues that cross times and spaces, while remaining present.

This is what the gallery walls themselves enunciate, welcoming the same gesture of prospecting, peeling and cuts that marks part of Palhano’s recent paintings, spiraling time and bringing, to our eyes and perceptions, indexes of memories that we thought buried.

Click HERE and download the full PDF catalog, which includes images and information about all works on display, views of the exhibition, text by curator Clarissa Diniz and the artist’s bio (in Portuguese only).

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INFO

DOGMA – ARTHUR PALHANO
Curated by: Clarissa Diniz
Period of the show: 11 Feb – 18 Mar 2023
Opening: 11 Feb, Saturday, 2 – 6 pm
Visiting times: Tues to Fri (11 am – 7 pm); Saturdays (11 am – 5 pm). Free admission.
Where: Portas Vilaseca Galeria – Rua Dona Mariana, 137, casa 2 – Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ

”DOGMA” marks the 1st edition of ”Verão na Vila”, a new program that opens the gallery’s annual exhibition calendar featuring special actions and projects by guest artists and curators. The opening event is also part of CIGA – Circuito Integrado das Galerias de Arte [ Integrated Circuit of Art Galleries ], promoted by ArtRio fair, with the aim of approaching the public to the art spaces in Rio de Janeiro.