Past
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Beyond the modern
Antonio Gonçalves Filho 9 Nov 2024 - 22 Feb 2025 The exhibition B eyond the Modern takes its title from a book written by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) in 1973, Além do Apenas Moderno [ Beyond the Merely Modern ] . In it, Freyre argues that Western societies experienced, from the 1960s onwards, a transition to a thre... Read more -
The Intimacy of Forms
Yudi Rafael 24 Aug - 26 Oct 2024 In his autobiography, Jorge Zalszupin recounts that after the house was built in 1962, his wife, Annette, undertook the task of decorating it. That year, the family acquired an abstract painting by Manabu Mabe, in exchange for a sofa. The painting took center stage in the living room of the... Read more -
Fibers are my paint. The loom, my brush
Marina Lafer 9 Jul - 3 Aug 2024 The exhibition “ Fibers are my paint . The loom, my brush ” is a comprehensive retrospective that celebrates four decades of production by the artist Marina Lafer . Resulting from the collaboration between ETEL and the Almeida & Dale Art Gallery at the iconic Casa Zalszupin , the show... Read more -
The Right to Memory
Lilia Schwarcz 19 Mar - 22 Jun 2024 The first Brazilian Constitution turns 200 years old in 2024. The text went down in history as 'The Granted,' since it was imposed by Emperor Dom Pedro I, who subsequently ordered the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, preventing the political opposition from acting. The Constitution was also considered 'granted' because,... Read more -
LABINAC – What we always did
Jacopo Crivelli Visconti 25 Nov 2023 - 24 Feb 2024 What we a lways did We a lways did. Travel . Stayed . A while . Set up a house . Built . a chair a table a lamp a vase Left .... Stay . LABINAC ' Is this art?' Recurr ent in the context of contemporary art, professionals in... Read more -
Inland landscape
Ana Carolina Ralston 27 Jun - 14 Oct 2023 “T he true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ” Walter Benjamin A lived event is finite. T he remembered event is limitless, though, because... Read more -
Pancetti and Scapinelli
Cristiano Raimondi 27 Mar - 3 Jun 2023 The artistic trajectories of Pancetti and Scapinelli are unique among modern artists who have worked and produced in Brazil, while at the same time referring to the paths taken by other generations of artists, especially those of Italian origin, who immigrated to the country. Pancetti and Scapinelli , curated by... Read more -
zalszupin soirée of Brazilian modernist utopias
Iatã Cannabrava 13 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 I’ve been wanting to tell you that the idea of bringing the cousins of modernist photography together with those of concrete poetry has found shelter at Casa Zalszupin. In all these years of research, modernist photography has always made me think of concrete poetry. With the mania of a... Read more -
Bardi Bill dialogue
Francesco Perrotta-Bosch 15 Oct - 10 Dec 2022 The BARDI BILL DIALOG takes place in two ways. One is proven by documentary evidence: Max Bill would not have started contact with Brazil if Pietro Maria Bardi had not invited him to an exhibition at Masp on Rua Sete de Abril. This invitation came by a letter dated June... Read more -
Sintetic Organic
Jorge Zalszupin 100 years 1 Jul - 17 Sep 2022 The white, curved volumes, supported by thick, they seem to have been molded in clay. seen in plant, environments contract in organic movements, alluding to the labyrinth of Daedalus, symbolic creator of architecture. And they often resemble bedrooms. ships and astronaut capsules. If the furniture designed by Jorge Zalszupin excels... Read more -
Elective Affinities
Claudia Moreira Salles 4 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 ETEL and Almeida & Dale invite you to the exhibition 'Elective Affinities ', in which Claudia Moreira Salles, designer and curator of the show, presents her pieces of furniture, while revealing her creative process and her relationship with the visual arts. The designer presents part of her creation process, exposing... Read more -
Every Other Week
Landscapes, bodies and daily life between a century 14 Feb - 23 Mar 2022 Like in pole vaulting, this exhibition makes an arch connecting the energy that mobilized the outbreak of Brazilian Modernism – in the 1920s and 1930s – with various contemporary manifestations concentrated in these early years of the 2020s. Part of the activities that mark the centenary of the 1922 Modern... Read more -
Tenreiro, constructive counterpoint
intuition, color and geometry 25 Oct - 15 Dec 2021 Tenreiro, constructive counterpoint: intuition, color and geometry Ana Avelar - Curator Joaquim Tenreiro is considered a pioneer of modern Brazilian furniture. His mastery of wood is undeniable, as well as the combination of sensitivity, constructive rigor and impeccable workmanship represented by his artist, designer and artisan facets, respectively. There are... Read more -
rhythm. rigor. reason.
Branco & Preto Studio and Constructive Art 21 Aug - 9 Oct 2021 Denying the naturalist tradition, and all expressiveness of a romantic content, constructive art glimpsed the approach of a new life, endowed with greater rigor and rationality. Universalist art, in which painting, sculpture and architecture converged on urbanism and design, fertilizing everyday life with the clarity of geometric reason and the... Read more
