Between Lanes

 press release

 

Widening the rhizomatic dynamics that constructed a plural yet coherent Brazilian modern visuality, the group show of historical works attests to the foundations, reoperations, and receptions of the late 1940s to the early 1990s in the continental country. The attentive amalgamation of local materials — such as jacarandá and pau-marfim in furniture — and images — like the sinuous landscape of central Brazil, the protagonism of neo-concretist ideas, and the effervescent role of Latin American in a so-called marginal modernism — culminate in the ideological establishment of a sophisticated and highly versatile visual culture representative of a nation.

 

Between Lanes depicts not only a motion of repertoires and legacies that inserted Brazil as a pivotal axis in a global circuit, nor strictly migration vectors by Brazilian globetrotter artists, architects, and designers, but a historiographical agitation that embraced some of these people in Europe at their most avid period of production — such as Lygia Clark and Tunga — or have now been carefully revisited with contemporary theoretical apparatus — such as Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato. The dialogue also represents the transdisciplinary movements in Brazil between art, design, and architecture, with the integration of their expressions in unique works that incorporate in furniture pieces tectonic concerns akin to architecture – as in Lina Bo Bardi’s and Oscar Niemeyer’s works – and visual arts – showcased through Abraham Palatnik’s furniture with painted glass.

 

From 11 October to 20 December 2024 at 26 St Lukes Mews, Notting Hill, London.

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