®artspace Sao Paulo
POP. Rua Virgilio de Carvalho Pinto 297, Pinheiros. 05415-030 Sao Paulo. Brazil
talk: +55 11 3487 1677 skype: rojosaopaulo online: www.livrariapop.com.br
A new multifunctional creative art space and cool bookshop in Sao Paulo.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 13.00h to 20.00h. Saturday from 11.00h to 18.00h.
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23.06.2009 - 25.07.2009
An ambitious creative spirit, MWM (Matt W. Moore) has traveled to Sao Paulo for one month to prepare, from scratch, for his first South American Solo-Exhibition. He arrived with no art, no supplies, and no firm plan for this new series of canvas paintings. The ideas for the artworks have actualized while processing time spent absorbing Brazilian Culture, exploring this Mega-City, the vibrant colors, the exaggerated geometry, and the diverse architecture of Sao Paulo.
MWM's "Parallel Universe" Series explores and celebrates the convergence of his dedication to various disciplines of design and art. The paintings were created entirely with spray paint, one of Matt's favorite mediums. But, the designs are very clean, and appear almost digital in their precise details and craft. An honest, analog attempt to achieve the same depth and abstract geometry of his digital "Vectorfunk" style. The goal with each work is to have the viewers eye fall into the piece and get lost in the optical illusions, trying to figure out what is up, down, left, and right. Welcome to the Jungle!
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19.05.2009 - 20.06.2009
Chamarelli lives in a multicultural country full of contrasts that reflects in his work. Featuring mosaic, geometric elements, organic forms and harmonic lines connecting symbols, legends, philosophies, religions and customs of ancient and modern civilizations. Within this diversity is the strong influence of Brazilian popular culture and pre-Columbian indigenous art. Chamarelli's art follows the rhythm of globalization, bringing borders and cultures closer. His characters with serious expressions live in different realities and situations that appear surreal. Music has a very important role during Chamarelli's creation processes, helping to give it flow.
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19.03.2009 - 01.05.2009
ROJO® in cooperation with POP has selected 21 great artists to launch "Indizivel", the fourth of the OCHO group exhibition series scheduled to take place this year, in different cities around the world. More than 150 artists are to be part of this ®artspace network world group show, that will run through nine world class galleries until August 2009.
Artwork by: Steak Zombies, Luciana Araújo, Tristan Rault, Defi, Mulheres Barbadas, Visca, Apo Fousek, Catalina Estrada, Flavio Colker, Eduardo Recife, Nasa, Wagner Pinto, Boris Hoppek, Aya Kato, MWM, Tec, Antonio Bokel, Bruno 9li, Eltono, Tony de Marco, Rita Wainer, Eduardo Recife, Pedro Inoue.
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03.02.2009 - 14.03.2009
"Again I don't have a text about the exhibition. First because I am bad with writing and second because I don't explain my work, well I just explain that I don't explain it. Why I don't explain stands for the concept of not explaining. could be - a) I use it as an excuse to cover up first that I am bad with writing or - b) my work has nothing that has to be explained, or - c) it has something, but I don't want to explain just a small part of it not to mention all the subliminal elements and interpretation variations I don't know of. Whatever, let's say its all together." Brazil is Boris Hoppek's long awaited first solo exhibition in... oh, yes... Brazil.
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16.12.2008 - 24.01.2009
Rita Wainer talks about shallow feelings and imaginary relationships, drawing and embroidering portraits of strangers and places where she has never been. She designs by sowing imagination and fantasy projected in life of strangers who cross each other every day but will never meet.
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04.11.2008 - 06.12.2008
Until the beginning of 2007 the city of Sao Paulo had more than 15 thousand billboards, most of them illegal. By the streets they appeared on both sides, forming a kind of Polish corridor of advertising messages. On March 31, the so called Clean City Bill, changed everything. Tons of steel structures was partially demolished, thousands of billboards erased and countless letter signs removed. From a day to another the city became quiet. Walls stopped yelling and the blue sky appeared behind billboards. Photographer and artist Tony de Marco documented in March this historic moment and quickly won the world with his photos. From a post at BoingBoing the images of the naked city spread the blogosphere in languages such as Japanese, Danish, Hungarian and even the Macedonian. For months his pictures were magazines covers , newspapers and calendars across the globe, appeared in documentaries and MTV's clips. In 2008 they were exposed in the Design Museum in London and the museum Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain.
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30.09.2008 - 01.11.2008
Pinto's artwork is developed through mixed and threatening forms of drawing and painting. The artist's research is based on elements and symbols of umbanda, candomblé, indigenous graphics, religious dressings, alchemical elements and folklore forest. These are translated through his pictorial vocabulary in the form of layers of lines, profusion of intense and contrasting colors, abstract symbols and graphs.
His investigative search has as objective creation of unknown pictures and the gestalt of shapes and colors.
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17.09.2008 - 27.09.2008
Born in a certain day, in a certain place, the patchworker Jim Avignon was a mythical figure in the Berlin underground before becoming a Pop icon. His stunning pictures of faces painted in a technicolor style spread throughout the world and became famous by showing a translation of the new time painting, with well marked precise traces, large and colorful spaces and fragments of text. Avignon is a master in reducing complex to essential. He notes and reflects the abysses of being in a fascinating panorama of unquiet beauty.
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05.08.2008 - 13.09.2008
The artist Tinho, one of the pioneers of the Brazilian graffiti and punk skater by nature, develops in his artistic work a singular painting where the acumulation of information and the influence of skate/punk show a contemporary world full of violence, solitude and suffering. Elements easily viewed in big cities like São Paulo, Tokyo, Yokohama, Santiago, Buenos Aires and Berlin. Places where he was in different situations. He risked his first wall 13 years of age in 1986 and happened to see the world with other eyes, living in the underground suburbs on the side of punks and skater, always had a political vision of what surrounded him, motivating to produce art in the most varied media, predominating the walls of the cities he has passed.
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01.07.2008 - 09.08.2008
Garage Fuzz, Most, of street art, toyart, children, etc.. Finally, Alexandre Cruz is a maniac. It is difficult to say what is the specialty of this inhabitant of megalopolis Sao Paulo, as it does 300 things at once and he constantly strives to peak in all of them. It is contradictory, but true. Making an effort to make it brief, we can say that the subject is a full time musician, composer, visual artist, graphic designer, entrepreneur and father. That if we look at the life of Alexander today, as in the past he has made tons of other notable things, which are for the future archeologists to discover.
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27.05.2008 - 28.06.2008
"Not long ago, we were playing a boring raqueteball game when the idea of Mulheres Barbadas project came up. Now we are two bearded ladies working together. We take turns drawing until we either fill up the canvas... or are too tired to go on, whichever comes first. We like monsters, icky stuff and tender love." - Mulheres Barbadas
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24.04.2008 - 22.05.2008
Luciana apresenta uma série de pinturas criadas em sua nova fase. Saem o vazio e as figuras solitárias e entram temas mais femininos, cotidianos e atemporais. As pinceladas da mostra, citam clássicos do Heavy Metal e trazem referências de capas de discos dos anos 80, com influências psicodélicas e muita fluorescência. Sem abrir mão da linguagem subjetiva e figurativa, ela abordará o comportamento contemporâneo, suas bestas e suas feras.
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18.03.2008 - 18.04.2008
Painter, sculptor, multimedia artist and more, he works on unusual media, mostly on discarded objects found on the streets. In his work he is always trying to capture the spirit of what moves people in their chaotic big city everyday lives.
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14.02.2008 - 14.03.2008
Com camadas que se interpõem, Caballero desenvolve uma obra cheia de detalhes e referências, apropiando-se de manchetes do cotidiano, textos de filosofia e
história, slogans de propaganda e frases baratas de auto-ajuda sem pudor de desconstruir os sensos de um mundo aparentemente ordenado.
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18.12.2007 - 09.02.2008
Eltono presents a well intended conversation between the street art and the gallery art. Artwork made out of collected materials from public spaces is to be reproduced maintaining the originals in the streets of the city.
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27.11.2007 - 14.12.2007
Apo Fousek started to draw to the 3 years of age and didn't stop anymore. The drawing always was to his side as instrument of reflection, binding its universe to the people and the World. His relationship with surf and skate also comes from his childhood and always influenced him in the way to think and to develop at his artistic context. Although the concept of its designs and the conception of its workmanships are not directly linked to the surf and skate lifestyles.
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23.10.2007 - 24.11.2007
Everything boils in the flames of now - chaos, myths, streets, frenesi, trance, death and rebirth, what is natural and supernatural. The newest works by brazilian artist Bruno 9li in original format and presentation of Bruno 9li's first monographic book called "Agora Eterno" published by ROJO®.
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26.09.2007 - 19.10.2007
Art exhibition with the heart divided between the beautiful artwork of japanese Aya Kato, displaying her works printed on textile and brazilian artist Elisa Sassi displaying her works on original format.
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