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Flourished Painting

The exhibition “Flourished Painting” displays 26 works that transit throughout Delson Uchôa's creative process. His work mixes paintings and art objects with high scale and varied supports, such as fabric, leather, resin, rubber, and canvas. The display also includes photographs.

According to the curator Moacir dos Anjos, the artist's painting is living matter, an experience that transforms the look. “There is a warm color that dominates the painted space – almost always of large dimensions – and its immediate surroundings, provoking the elongated stimulus of the retina”, he says.

A member of the “Generation 80”, Uchôa brings together a bit of his extensive trajectory in the exhibition, which includes passages in the biennials of Venice, São Paulo, Havana, and Cairo. His works are also part of the collections of various institutions, confirming the importance of his work.

Artist
Delson Uchôa
Curatorship
Moacir dos Anjos

Assistant curatorship
Steve Coimbra

Exhibition period
From 18 de abril de 2023
Until 20 de agosto de 2023
Location
Room 1

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The Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON) holds the exhibition “Pintura Vingada” (“Flourished Painting”), by the artist from Alagoas Delson Uchôa, which will be inaugurated on April 18, in Room 1.

Curated by Moacir dos Anjos and jointly curated by Steve Coimbra, the exhibition unites 26 works that move through the artist's entire creative process.

“If art provides a reconnection with our essence, the work of the contemporary Delson Uchôa sensitizes by provoking genuine emotions in its audience”, says director-president of MON, Juliana Vosnika.

She informs that, in this solo exhibition, the artist presents works that bring a collection of experiences and experiences. “Perhaps because of this immense legacy, they provide enriching exchanges with the visitor”, she says.

His work is paintings and art objects with elevated scales and various media, such as fabric, leather, resin, rubber, and canvas. The exhibition “Pintura Vingada” also includes photographs by the artist.

For Secretary of Culture Luciana Casagrande Pereira, it is a great honor to receive the emblematic artist of the so-called “Generation 80” at MON and to provide this meeting with the public from Paraná. “Delson Uchôa's work is proof of the universality of art, representing Brazil at international biennials. Now, we will be pleased to share in your artistic expression”, he says.

According to the curator Moacir dos Anjos, Delson Uchôa's painting is living matter, an experience that transforms the look. “His paintings by him are flashes: first they blind and only then do they light up. In all of them, there is a warm color that dominates the painted space – almost always of large dimensions – and its immediate surroundings, provoking an elongated stimulus of the retina”, he says.

A member of the “Generation 80”, Uchôa brings together a bit of his extensive trajectory in the exhibition, which includes passages in the Venice, São Paulo, Havana, and Cairo biennials. His works are also part of the collections of various institutions, confirming the importance of his work.

Images

Paula Morais

Materiais da Exposição

Folder Digital

Juliana Vellozo Almeida Vosnika

Moacir dos Anjos

Fabiana Moraes

Steve Coimbra

Curatorial Text

The verb “vingar” in Portuguese has two meanings. “Vingar” means to take revenge, but it is also to survive despite everything. “Flourished Painting”, an exhibition by Delson Uchôa, is a disapproval of what challenges art and, at the same time, evidence of something that is still alive. It is the summary of a path dedicated to creating, in the field of painting, a unique way of knowing the world.

His paintings are flashes: first, they blind, and then they enlighten. In all of them, there is a warm color that dominates the painted space, already provoking a retinal stimulus at a distance. Seen up close, however, it is clear that they are lights made of fine strands of paint. They are also hybrid constructions that bring together distinct cultural formations; in them, the constructive tradition of art blends with the shapes and colors of the artist's place of origin. Finally, they have an open duration, since they accumulate, in the materials and gestures from which they are made, the time necessary for the painting to flourish.

The oldest works are made from the slow deposit of paint on canvas. In the most recent ones, Delson Uchôa cuts and pastes, on these supports, colored fabrics that cover nieces – ink that already exists ready-made and dried in the world. For many years, moreover, the artist has been painting the floor of his studio-house and, and once the paint dries, he peels off long, thin layers of paint. Skins of paint grown in the place where he walks daily used to invent a new body for painting. And that becomes territory and architecture made for touch, encounters, and for shelter.

Delson Uchôa's work rejects, due to its mere presence in the world, any suggestion of exhaustion of the craft of the person who paints. It is a living matter that flourishes all the time, cared for by the artist and by anyone else who is affected by its almost tactile iridescence. It is flourished painting that imposes itself on everything and welcomes anyone in equal measure.

Moacir dos Anjos
Curator

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Exhibition period

Until 20 de agosto de 2023

Location

Room 1

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