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Artist Mano Penalva opens this weekend his solo show “Cama de gato” at LLANO space in Mexico City. The exhibition presents the most recent developments of his research on the materiality and symbology of wooden beads, which assume new configurations from the interaction with fabrics used to upholster cars of different styles. Penalva also explores […]
On display until July 31 at MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná (temporarily occupying the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba), the group show “Insólito” – curated by Pollyanna Quintella – addresses the “uncommon” through the eyes of 5 guest artists: Daniel Acosta, Mano Penalva, Maya Weishof, Tony Camargo and Washington Silvera, who bring […]
Untitled, Art – Miami Beach is back to its physical version and it brings together more than 140 galleries from all over the world, as well as non-profit collectives and organizations. Portas Vilaseca Galeria participates once again, this time presenting a unique selection of works by artists Mano Penalva, Pedro Victor Brandão, Rafael Baron and Zé […]
Next Tuesday (19 October), we open in São Paulo – in partnership with gallery Janaína Torres and curator and educator Gisela Gueiros – “Polygons, porticos, matter and desire”, a group show curated by Cadu Gonçalves that proposes a dialogue between contemporary productions with the Latin American constructivist heritage. Echoing in current practices, the exhibition points […]
In the course of the months of April and May, our represented artist Mano Penalva participates in the Casa Wabi Residency Program, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. One of the projects to be developed during this period is the creation of a garden next to the house, based on the thought of a pedagogy […]
Our represented artist Mano Penalva presents his work “Centopéia” (2019) in the collective exhibition “al pie de un volcán“, promoted by the Mexican platform LLANO. Running until May 1st in Mexico City, the show brings together 14 Latin-American artists whose works deal with the reconstruction of the world and the new paths that can be established after […]
Three of our represented artists had their works selected for the exhibition “Casa Carioca“, at Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR. From 22nd September onwards, the show will be open to visitors, with a limit of 60 people per time slot (10 am, 2 pm and 4 pm). Scheduling must be done in advance […]
Arriving today, another publication in our virtual library ! Take a look at the catalogue of artist Mano Penalva’s exhibition “Casa de Andar” (Two-Storey House), which took place at Portas Vilaseca Galeria in 2019. The title of the show refers to an expression that is commonly used in Bahia, the birthplace of Penalva in Brazil, to […]
Arriving today in our virtual library another publication by one of our artists! Take a look at “A Casa-Matilha e o Corpo-Palafita” (“The House-Pack and the Stilt-Body”), a critical-poetic essay in a zine-paper format edited especially for the exhibition “Displacements”, first solo show by artist Mano Penalva, which took place at the Hermes Space, in São […]
We are very grateful to everyone who has been supporting the ARTE + CARE program and its cause for the common benefit in such uncertain times. All 20 paintings from Mulambö’s “Disguise and Cry” series have already been sold in the first days of the program’s launch. And starting the second week of this cycle […]