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The Oscar Niemeyer Museum is a vibrant and dynamic institution, housed in one of the most beautiful projects designed by the architect of the same name. Each of the exhibitions held here takes on a unique character due to the ingenuity of the building's curves and lines. Upon entering the MON, visitors always have an immersive experience, as the building itself is a great work of art.

Similarly, in the exhibition “Moiré Bereguedê”, Mano Penalva's work merges and blends with the space. An installation can be a screen and a drawing functions as a wall. The art hangs from the ceiling and floods the exhibition room, mingling with the people. 

His work starts from the displacement of everyday objects. Through different media, such as sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and video, the artist invites the public to not only appreciate but also feel his art.

The Museum, in turn, presents itself as a space for pause, comfort, and well-being. The exhibitions it holds, like this one, as well as the actions and activities it offers, all share the common goal of providing a break from the hurried digital world. They are opportunities for reflection andreconnection with ourselves and with others who, by observing the same work, create a sense of identity and belonging. 

With its focus on visual arts, architecture, and design, the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, being a unique space, offers perfect harmony to this exhibition. 

The MON, the largest art museum in Latin America by area, stands out as an icon of Brazilian architecture. It houses important references of national and international artistic production. By presenting the exhibition "Moiré Bereguedê," it fulfills its purpose of sensitizing people. Part of the Museum's mission, in addition to collecting and exhibiting, is to provide transformative experiences and dialogues between the public and art.

Juliana Vellozo Almeida Vosnika
CEO of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum

The exhibition “Moiré Bereguedê – Mano Penalva”, held by the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, brings together sculptures, paintings, collages and videos from the artist's recent work. The curator is Felipe Scovino.

Mano Penalva's work stems from the displacement of objects from their everyday context. Through his art, the artist highlights the idea that the exponential proliferation of objects and images is not intended to train perception or consciousness, but rather insists on merging us with them.

The exhibition title synthesizes the conciliatory relationship between the vernacular and the industrial that characterizes Mano Penalva's work. Moiré is not only an optical effect generated from the overlapping of lines demarcating a grid, but a phenomenon very present in constructivist art in Brazil, particularly from the 1950s onwards. Artists such as Hélio Oiticicaand Lygia Pape pointed out its orthogonal structure while simultaneously deconstructing it, respectively, in series of works such as "Metaesquemas" (c. 1958) and "Ttéia" (1977–2002).  Drawing a parallel with the present, Penalva also performs a similar operation, for example, with the "Clouds," where the grid becomes an expansive and malleable three-dimensional plane. Meanwhile, bereguedê signals the place of improvisation, spontaneity, and, significantly, collectivity and celebration.

The exhibition is based on the confluence of these two spaces that condense, on the one hand, the geometric investigations of avant-garde art and its relationship with transparency and chromatic vibration, and, on the other hand, the experience of the street, not only using everyday materials such as slats, tarpaulins, straw, the nylon of beach chairs or bags, but also the intensity and noise of the city, local cultures, affective memory and, especially, the "gambiarra" (Jerry-rigged) or the approximation between the use value and the aesthetic value of an ordinary object through improvisation. The artist is interested in the mixing of cultures, such as the proximity between the muxarabi (mashrabiya) and its architecture, which does not impede an eye that pierces the material, and the magical and accidental language of the streets.

Still within the architectural context, Penalva develops both the archetype of a square and that of a house. The arrangement of the works throughout the space, creating translucent corridors or rooms with the "Alpendres”(Porches) and "Cortinas” (Curtains), as well as intervals for leisure through the "Camas de Gato” (Cat's Cradles), allows the public to move through the exhibition as if experiencing a continuous act of slowing down time and the subjective modes of constituting affection.

The exhibition “Moiré Bereguedê – Mano Penalva”, held by the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, brings together sculptures, paintings, collages and videos from the artist's recent work. The curator is Felipe Scovino.
Mano Penalva's work stems from the displacement of objects from their everyday context. Through his art, the artist highlights the idea that the exponential proliferation of objects and images is not intended to train perception or consciousness, but rather insists on merging us with them.

Wooden beads, ribbon and wooden strip
280×150cm
Collection of the artist

Wooden bead, ribbon, frame, steel cable, led pellet and nail
220×100×10cm
Collection of the artist and Simões de Assis

Fabric, acrylic blanket, wooden beads, eyelets, bitumen paint, hooks and steel wire
200×290×5cm
Collection of the artist

Nylon strap, wooden slats, enamel paint, and beads
200×480×5cm
Collection of the artist

Wooden beads, ribbon, wooden strip and iron supports
300×300x30cm
Collection of the artist and Simões de Assis

Wooden slats, nylon strap, enamel paint, magnetized sphere and frame
80x90cm
Collection of the artist and Simões de Assis

Nylon strap, wooden slats and enamel paint
160×160 cm
Collection of the artist and Portas Vilaseca

Nylon strap, wooden slats, enamel paint and frame
140×240×5cm

Nylon strap, enamel paint, frame and wooden slats
225×225×6cm
Collection of the artist and Simões de Assis

MON presents an exhibition of the artist Mano Penalva

The exhibition “Moiré Bereguedê – Mano Penalva”, a new project of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, will open on June 25th at 7 pm in Room 2. It features 71 works, including sculptures, paintings, collages, and videos, from his recent production. The curator is Felipe Scovino.

“The MON has consolidated its role as one of the leading cultural institutions in Latin America, promoting exhibitions that bring the public closer to contemporary Brazilian artistic production. The arrival of Mano Penalva expands this dialogue and reinforces the museum's role as a vibrant space for experimentation, thought, and access to culture,” says the Secretary of State for Culture, Luciana Casagrande Pereira.

The CEO of MON, Juliana Vosnika, comments that the Oscar Niemeyer Museum is a living and dynamic institution, housed in one of the most beautiful projects designed by the architect of the same name. "Upon entering the Museum, visitors always have an immersive experience, since the building itself is a great work of art," she says. 

“Similarly, in the exhibition ‘Moiré Bereguedê’, Mano Penalva’s work merges and blends in with the space,” Juliana compares. “An installation can be a screen and a drawing functions as a wall. The art hangs from the ceiling and floods the exhibition room, mingling with the people”. 

Mano Penalva's work stems from the displacement of objects from their everyday context. Through different media such as sculpture, lodgement, painting, photography, and video, the artist invites the public to not only appreciate but also feel his art.

The curator explains that the exhibition's title synthesizes the conciliatory relationship between the vernacular and the industrial, which characterizes Mano Penalva's work. "Moiré is not just an optical effect generated from the overlapping of lines demarcating a grid, but a phenomenon very present in constructivist art in Brazil, particularly from the 1950s onwards," he informs. 

Artists such as Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape pointed out his orthogonal structure while simultaneously deconstructing it, respectively, in series of works such as “Metaesquemas” (c. 1958) and “Ttéia” (1977–2002). Drawing a parallel with the present, Penalva also performs a similar operation, for example, with the “Nuvens” (Clouds), where the gridbecomes an expansive and malleable three-dimensional plane. 

“The word ‘beregedê’ already indicates a place of improvisation, spontaneity, and, significantly, of collectivity and celebration,” says Scovino.

Mano Penalva was born in Salvador in 1987 and lives and works in São Paulo. His work stems from the displacement of objects from their everyday context and reflects the artist's interest in Anthropology and Material Culture. Through different media, such as sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and video, Penalva proposes new aesthetic groupings based on retail sales strategies, his experiences collecting stories, and observation of the field that moves between the home and the street. 

Penalva highlights with his works the idea that the exponential proliferation of objects and images is not intended to train perception or consciousness, but rather insists on merging us with them. 

He holds a bachelor's degree in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2008). He attended free art courses at Parque Lage for seven years (2005–2011). Currently, he is part of Massapê Projetos, a platform managed by artists that enables artistic thought and production, based in São Paulo, and of which he is the creator.

In recent years, she has participated in several artistic residencies: Casa Wabi – Puerto Escondido (Mexico), 2021; Fountainhead Residency – Miami (USA), 2020; LE26by / Felix Frachon Gallery – Brussels (Belgium), 2019; AnnexB – New York (USA), 2018; Penthouse Art Residence – Brussels (Belgium), 2018; R.A.T. – Artistic Exchange Residency – Mexico City (Mexico), 2017; Pop Center – CamelódromoPorto Alegre (Brazil), 2017.

Moiré Bereguedê - Mano Penalva

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