Exhibition Dates: 08.13.15 – 09.26.15
Gallery Hours: Tue – Fri: 10 AM – 7 PM; Sat: 10 AM – 5 PM
Location: Av. Valdemar Ferreira, 130 – Butantã, São Paulo – SP, Brazil
Galeria Leme presents “Chão” (Ground), Alexandre Brandão’s second solo exhibition in the gallery, where the artist presents a new series of works, continuing his exploration and fascination with the phenomenology of raw materials and their almost alchemical transmutation.
If, in earlier works, Alexandre Brandão studied the elusive nature of light and the sculptural capabilities of materials such as sugar, stone, ink and charcoal. In “Chão” he deepens his direct rapport with the raw materials that come, literally or conceptually, from the ground/earth.
Through an empirical approach and the use of trial-and-error processes, the artist progressively reached a technical dominion over these materials. Flirting with tools and methods from an artisan production (sensitive to the transformation of matter, its drying times and changes in consistency and color) Alexandre Brandão develops a practice that often gets close to a proto-science, combining utopia, physical and chemical processes with a strong empiricism and intuition.
The refusal of the methodical rationalism of scientific processes has a visible reverberation in the predominant forms features in the exhibition. In which prevail rounded and sinuous forms, with imperfections that comes from the artist’s very hands. Human traces imprinted through techniques and practices that connect themselves to a memory that took refuge in gestures and habits, in skills passed by unspoken traditions and in a self-knowledge inherent to the body.
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