Exhibition "Gonçalo Ivo – Zeitgeist"

Pinakotheke Cultural, in Rio de Janeiro, opens the exhibition to the public “Gonçalo Ivo – Zeitgeist” with 79 paintings created by the artist in the last five years, from the series “Le jeu des perles de verre” (“Glass bead games”), “Cosmogonies”, “Cardboards”e “L'inventaire des pierres solitaires” (“Inventory of Lonely Stones”). The curation is Luiz Chrysostomo de Oliveira Filho, president of the Council of Rio Art Museum, a friend of the artist, and who has followed his work for over thirty years. Almost all of the works are new, and only five of them were in the exhibition of the same name held at Paço Imperial, in April 2022, which had 26 works selected by the same curator. Luiz Chrysostomo de Oliveira Filho highlights that Gonçalo Ivo “is considered one of the greatest contemporary colorists in the country”.

The artist was born in Rio de Janeiro, on August 15, 1958, and works between his studios in the Teresópolis mountains, in Rio de Janeiro, in Paris and in Madrid. the term Zeitgeist means "spirit of time“, and was initially used by the German philosopher and writer Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803). The film will be shown “Gonçalo Ivo – a biography of color” (2024, 28′), directed by Katia Maciel, with photography by Daniel Venosa, made especially for the exhibition.

The exhibition will be accompanied by book “Gonçalo Ivo – Zeitgeist” (Pinakotheke Editions), bilingual (Port/English), with 328 pages, in 21 x 27cm format. The organization is Luiz Chrysostomo de Oliveira Filho, apresentation of Max Perlingeiro, and texts from Tomás Paredes, Nicholas Fox Weber, executive director of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Lêdo Ivo (1924-2012) and Nelida Pinon (1934-2022) – who made his last visit to the artist’s studio in Teresópolis in May 2022 –, and a unpublished visual poem de Luciano Figueiredo, created especially for the publication. The book also contains a detailed chronology of the artist, and the longest interview granted by him, given the Luiz Chrysostomo, “started in January 2022, while Gonçalo it was in his studio-residences in Madrid and Paris”, and finished “on a sunny morning, in early autumn 2023, at the Isamu Noguchi Museum, in New York”.

Luiz Chrysostomo de Oliveira Filho states that the exhibition and the book reflect “the artist’s concerns over the last five years, coming from a sequence of intense experiences, discoveries and affections”. "He expresses a deep desire to share a long-lasting trajectory of art, marked by courageous and fragmented perceptions of our contemporary times. Dealing with the non-linearity that life imposes on us and the surprises resulting from it, as the poet so rightly said Gullar, reveals that persistence is a different characteristic of human construction. Insisting, reviewing or returning are not contradictions, but actions that allow us to exist and reveal another possible side”, he says. The curator emphasizes that his work series “they talk about time as a central theme, they seek to account for a changing present, they unblock an internal voice that was sometimes muted”. Other aspects of the artist highlighted by Luiz Chrysostomo are “the ease with which navigate and swallow manifestations of Romanesque to Spanish Baroque, African cultures ancestral to European modernism“, and that if “confused with the technical mastery with which he manipulates pigments, temperings and oils”.

Max Perlingeiro, director of Cultural Pinakotheke, highlights that the public will surprise with the exhibition. "In addition to work the colors like no one else, he is in constant mutation, as can be seen in these three new series that appeared in 2018″. He says that the idea of ​​the book and the exhibition appeared upon seeing the painting “Cosmogony – Melancholy, for Giacomo Leopardi and Francisco de Goya” (2021), when setting up the exhibition at Imperial Palace, accompanied by Luiz Chrysostomo: “I was sure that I would enter this magical universe of producing your new book. And what a book!”

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
Our  Saturdays DAYS TO GO August 31st and September 14th, at 11am, there will be workshops for children, coordinated by the educational team at the Cultural Pinakotheke, from the exhibition of Gonçalo Ivo. On the first Saturday, the activity will be “Fantastic Collages: Turn Cardboard into Art“, inspired by the “Cardboard” series. In September 14, the workshop “Galaxies of Art: Magical Paintings of Cosmogonies” will propose to the public children to make paintings, starting from the works from the “Cosmogonia” series. Entry is free, and classification is free.

Service
Exhibitions | Gonçalo Ivo – Zeitgeist
From August 19th to September 28th
Monday to Friday, from 10am to 18pm, and Saturdays from 10am to 16pm