Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Alface, Marcelo Cipis’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. This show unites paintings from the 90s and recent works, and introduces the artist’s ruleless gaze, humorously questioning the duty of painting at times of mass production.
The first room introduces some works from the series Tambores, made in 1996, which came up during a reflection on the silence of a depressed body. This silence is marked by an audible tempo, like a drumbeat, defining the pulsations of the body. This language’s journey develops throughout this almost dancing relationship between a figure and a sound, using color as desire, a desire that operates between the spaces defined by drawing.
Understanding the drum as body, the artist unfolds the absurdities of surrealism and ironizes the hierarchy between drawing and painting, as in his most recent series, Fluxo Direto, which is presented in the second room. Cipis delivers...a reflection on simplicity and desire, this last one is important to the artist’s research, which comprehends a need for the gaze to escape towards something that one cannot achieve in nature, whether in an imitation of a sunset or one of an untouchable soft object.
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