Chão de Giz [Chalk Floor] salutes the 45th anniversary of Galeria Luisa Strina, which is celebrated more precisely on December 17, date when the second exhibition of the commemorative cycle will be inaugurated. In this first stage, a group show revisits iconic works originally exhibited at the gallery over a period that spans from 1974 to the mid-1990s. To the historical works are added other pieces by artists who joined the gallery’s cast in the 2000s, setting up a diachronic dialogue around the curatorial theme: chalk floor.
A chalk floor – which could also be a charcoal floor – constitutes an unstable ground, on which one moves with some hesitation initially. The show’s title, of course, alludes to Cildo Meireles’ work ‘Cinza’ (1984/1986) – an artist whose career goes hand in hand with that of the gallery, and vice versa, during the last four decades. It also refers to the political...and cultural context of the 70s in Brazil. It was on unstable ground from the point of view of freedom of expression that Galeria Luisa Strina opened its doors in December 1974.
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