Exhibition "Festival of Speeches"

A Nara Roesler Sao Paulo is pleased to present Party of speeches. Curated by Moacir dos AnjosThis is the first exhibition in a series celebrating Nara Roesler's 50 years as a gallery owner, which will run over the next few months in the institution's three locations: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and New York.

Em Party of Speeches, The curator brings together emblematic works by artists who have marked Nara Roesler's career from 1976 to the present. Presenting works by artists "who come from the same region as Nara, the Northeast, particularly Recife," the curator, also born in the capital of Pernambuco, observes that "this exhibition seeks to reclaim a way of speaking, an inflection in this language, in this repertoire, of artists who, regardless of whether or not they bring visual references from a specific territory, do so in a certain way, an affirmation of belonging." "In Nara's speech, in Nara's voice, there is this accent, as there is in my speech as well, and in the speech of other artists who come from this region."

In addition to works from the gallery's collection, the exhibition features pieces from private collections, such as the extremely rare ceramic panel. Untitled (1976), measuring almost eight meters long by two meters high, by Francisco Brennand (June 11, 1927, Recife – December 19, 2019, Recife), rarely seen by the public. The presence of works by José Cláudio (1932, Ipojuca, Pernambuco – 2023, Recife) is significant because he was the first artist Nara Roesler worked with, before having her own gallery, and in 2022 he had a retrospective exhibition curated by Aracy Amaral at Nara Roesler São Paulo.

A frequent visitor to contemporary art exhibitions long before dedicating himself to the field, Moacir dos Anjos met Nara Roesler back in the 1980s and later curated two exhibitions for the gallery. The first was in 2013. Dogs Without Feathers [Prologue] – in edition #24 of Roesler Hotel, a project created in 2002 to promote dialogue between national and international artistic communities, with curators and artists invited to experiment in the gallery space in São Paulo. In 2016, Moacir dos Anjos was the curator of Drift, a solo exhibition by Cao Guimarães at Nara Roesler New York, and, in the same space, in 2022, the exhibition Hotel Solitude, individual work by Marcelo Silveira.

Regarding this exhibition at the Nara Roesler gallery in São Paulo, Moacir dos Anjos says that "it's like a celebration of voices." "We are gathered here listening to these artists, to their way of being in the world. It's celebrating this fiftieth anniversary of Nara's activity as a gallery owner by summoning these voices, summoning these expressions, summoning these accents that were so important in her formation and are still important today in the fact that this gallery has something that is different from others," he emphasizes.

The curator recalls that 50 years ago the art scene

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From March 31th to May 9th
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