Booth C4/C6
Thursday, 12–7pm | Friday and Saturday, 12–8pm | Sunday, 12–7pm
https://artgeneve.ch/en/home/
Gomide&Co in collaboration with Ars Belga are pleased to present a solo presentation of works by Chico da Silva for the 12th edition of artgenève, which takes place at Palexpo, Geneva, from January 25th to 28th, 2024.
Chico da Silva (Brazil, 1910/1922-1985) was a self-taught artist, and his first artistic expressions took place on the walls of the neighborhood of Pirambu and Praia Formosa, in Fortaleza, state of Ceará (Brazil), in the early 1940s. In 1943, Chico met the Swiss painter Jean-Pierre Chabloz (1910-1984), who introduced him to the local art circuit. Chabloz dedicated himself to promoting Chico's work, staging his first solo show at the Galerie Pour L'Art, Lausanne (Switzerland), in 1952. Continuing his representation abroad, Chico participated in the exhibition Arts primitifs et modernes brésiliens at the Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in 1956.
Since his death in 1985, Chico da Silva is considered a “primitivist genius” in Brazil, and his work fuses popular cosmologies from the north and northeast of the country. His concern with the exaltation of Brazilian fauna and flora is evident not only as a decorative element but as a formal expression of the organic subjectivity of the Amazon region and its complexities.
