For SP-Arte: Rotas Brasileiras, Gomide&Co presents a curated selection of works based on a sense of impetuous and tropical "Brazilianness", observed in the production of artists from different periods and regions. The continuous understanding of the Brazilian experience and the emergence of contemporary narratives, which signify and magnify our artistic expression, is vigorously translated in the variety of techniques, media, and themes displayed.
Whether in Tiago Mestre's linens, which broaden the intersection between architecture and painting, Jaider Esbell's vibrant and luminous cosmogony, or Francisco Brennand's anthropomorphic ceramics, the organic quality of the colors and shapes, and the vitality of the gesture inscribe a continuous apprehension of life; the recognition of a tropical sensibility that inhabits and formulates chaos, devouring it and restoring it to the world. In other cases, as observed in the tapestry of the Atelier Douchez-Nicola and Hercules Barsotti's geometric rigor, this organic and continuous process presents astonishing results: the possibility, within this magical impetus, to find a regular, hermetic, but no less empirical systematization of making.
We believe that these eccentric and pulsating experiences describe not only one type of Brazilian route but a series of complementary typologies, that in the passage from one sensibility to another recognize and celebrate exteriority. Brazil and its people, these hallucinatory and often complex knowledge, are positioned from a common premise: the ability of reinvention and experimentation that characterizes the practice and poetics of these artists.