Géométrie du Sud
Niura Bellavinha, Noel Marinho and Heberth Sobral
Opening - Night of the Baths: Thursday, May 11, 2023 from 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition: from May 12 to June 24, 2023
Opening hours : Tuesday to Friday from 11 am to 6 pm and by appointment
Between 1950 and 1952, Lygia Clark went to Paris where she met Dobrinsky and Léger. Concretism, a movement strongly influenced by Russian constructivism, dominated the visual arts in Brazil and Argentina. In 1959, Lygia Clark and other artists from Rio de Janeiro signed the Manifesto of Neo Concretism, in reaction to the formalism of the Concretist artists, which they considered excessive. They advocate a more organic and phenomenological approach to the work of art: "The so-called geometric forms lose the objective character of geometry to become a vehicle of the imagination."
Thus the exhibition Geometry of the South, brings together the works of Niura Bellavinha, Noel Marinho and Heberth Sobral, weaving a thread of history: from concretism, through neo-concretism, to geometric abstraction.
Bellavinha places natural elements at the center of his research. Having participated in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, his works are now in collections such as the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection in Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo and the Inhotim Contemporary Art Center in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais.
Noel Marinho (1927-2018), is one of the representatives of the generation of architects who participated intensely in the heyday of Brazilian modern architecture from the mid-1950s. Throughout his long career, Noel Marinho exercised his creativity in Art and Design in parallel with his activities as an architect.
Sobral deals with everyday subjects of behavior, thoughts and actions performed through a culture focused on the representation of memories. Heberth uses various media such as ceramics, painting, drawing, banknotes, woodcuts and dolls to construct his own language. His work is in the collection of the Ariana Museum/Geneva, Museus Castro Maya/Rio de Janeiro and Museu Afro-Brasileiro/São Paulo.
Niura Bellavinha, Noel Marinho and Heberth Sobral
Opening - Night of the Baths: Thursday, May 11, 2023 from 6 to 9 pm
Exhibition: from May 12 to June 24, 2023
Opening hours : Tuesday to Friday from 11 am to 6 pm and by appointment
Between 1950 and 1952, Lygia Clark went to Paris where she met Dobrinsky and Léger. Concretism, a movement strongly influenced by Russian constructivism, dominated the visual arts in Brazil and Argentina. In 1959, Lygia Clark and other artists from Rio de Janeiro signed the Manifesto of Neo Concretism, in reaction to the formalism of the Concretist artists, which they considered excessive. They advocate a more organic and phenomenological approach to the work of art: "The so-called geometric forms lose the objective character of geometry to become a vehicle of the imagination."
Thus the exhibition Geometry of the South, brings together the works of Niura Bellavinha, Noel Marinho and Heberth Sobral, weaving a thread of history: from concretism, through neo-concretism, to geometric abstraction.
Bellavinha places natural elements at the center of his research. Having participated in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, his works are now in collections such as the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection in Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo and the Inhotim Contemporary Art Center in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais.
Noel Marinho (1927-2018), is one of the representatives of the generation of architects who participated intensely in the heyday of Brazilian modern architecture from the mid-1950s. Throughout his long career, Noel Marinho exercised his creativity in Art and Design in parallel with his activities as an architect.
Sobral deals with everyday subjects of behavior, thoughts and actions performed through a culture focused on the representation of memories. Heberth uses various media such as ceramics, painting, drawing, banknotes, woodcuts and dolls to construct his own language. His work is in the collection of the Ariana Museum/Geneva, Museus Castro Maya/Rio de Janeiro and Museu Afro-Brasileiro/São Paulo.