For Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, Gomide&Co presents a special selection of works stemming from a reflection on nature, ancestrality, and the ways in which artists perceive the landscape—both natural and constructed—around them. The presentation brings together different temporalities and forms of belonging, fostering a dialogue between the physical and symbolic dimensions of territory. Here, nature appears not merely as a setting but as an active, sentient presence that shapes gestures, memories, and ways of inhabiting the world. Within this relationship, artistic practice unfolds as an act of listening and recognition, in which the environment is understood as an extension of both body and history.
The proposal emphasizes how the gaze upon landscape transcends the representation of the visible to become an inquiry into identity and transformation. By drawing on ancestral references, local traditions, and everyday symbols, the works reveal tensions between permanence and change, the natural and the urban, the past and the future. The result is a constellation that underscores the vitality of art as a space of recomposition—where matter, culture, and spirituality intertwine—and invites viewers to revisit the notion of landscape not as a boundary, but as a living field of coexistence and invention.
Alongside the main presentation, the gallery also features a Kabinett project dedicated to Glauco Rodrigues (1929–2004), one of the most incisive visual chroniclers of Brazilian culture. The selection focuses on works produced between the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period when the artist began to critically engage with national symbols, official historical narratives, and the imagery of mass culture. A self-taught artist, Rodrigues began his career in the printmaking clubs of Bagé (his hometown) and Porto Alegre, developing over the decades a body of work that spans the late modernist period. In his anthropophagic and Brazilianist phase, he appropriated the fluorescent palette of advertising and the language of graphic reproduction to deconstruct—rather than celebrate—those symbols. Updating the anthropophagic gesture of Tarsila do Amaral and the modernists, Rodrigues “devours” icons and canonical narratives to reveal a Brazil that is contradictory, plural, and impure. In a moment when national emblems have once again been co-opted by conservative rhetoric, his work reaffirms the power of art to expose—with humor and lucidity—the contradictions of Brazil’s collective imagination.
Artists: Jaider Esbell, Chen Kong Fang, León Ferrari, Julia Isidrez, Lorenzato, Maria Lira, Roberto Burle Marx, Cildo Meireles, Tiago Mestre, Antonio Ballester Moreno, Nilda Neves, Lucia Nogueira, Massao Okinaka, Abraham Palatnik, Lygia Pape, Gerardo Petsaín Sharup, Heitor dos Prazeres, Gerhard Richter, Glauco Rodrigues, Mira Schendel, Shoko Suzuki, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rubem Valentim, Adriana Varejão, Megumi Yuasa.
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