Sample The Egg as a Sphinx It brings together fresco and watercolor paintings, installations and sculptures, and seeks to deepen the artist's investigation into landscape as a living process in constant transformation.
Since the beginning of its trajectory, Thiago Rocha Pitta She develops a practice marked by the attentive observation of the subtle mutations of the natural world, from the slow erosion of sand to atmospheric variations and the invisible dynamics that permeate matter. Her work shifts the traditional notion of landscape as a static representation and understands it as a physical and temporal experience. As Camila Bechelany states, "far from the tradition of landscape as a stabilized image of the territory, her work operates from direct experience with natural materials and evokes temporalities that exceed the human scale."
Among the artistic languages present in the exhibition, Thiago Rocha Pitta's fresco stands out. A technique the artist perfected in Italy, where he studied its traditional procedures, fresco painting involves painting directly onto damp mortar, allowing the mineral pigment to chemically bond to the surface during the process. It is a method that demands precision, time, and mastery.
By incorporating fresco into his contemporary practice, Rocha Pitta activates a historical technique associated with permanence and memory, but places it in dialogue with his investigation of transformation. The pigments, integrated with the lime, become a structural part of the surface, while small variations in humidity, temperature, and absorption produce unpredictable nuances. Thus, even in a millennia-old procedure, the artist maintains his role as mediator: “the elements that constitute the physical body of the works […] are not treated as symbolic signs, but as active agents,” writes Bechelany.
By bringing fragments of the ever-changing world into the exhibition space, whether in sculpture, installation, or fresco, Rocha Pitta reinforces the idea that "landscape is an event," according to Camila Bechelany. The gallery thus becomes an extension of the natural environment, a field in which geological time, historical memory, and sensory experience intertwine.
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Exhibition The Egg as a Sphinx
From March 07rd to April 18th
Monday to Friday, from 10:30 am to 19 pm, Saturday, from 11 am to 16 pm
