Exhibition “Wild Landscape” by Leda Catunda

Forts D'Aloia & Gabriel presents Wild landscape, the new exhibition of Leda Catunda at Carpintaria, which marks the artist's return to Rio de Janeiro a decade after her last solo exhibition in the city, at the Museum of Modern Art. The works presented show a baroque inflection in his research, where the accumulation of textile elements and imagery citations that characterize his work is intensified by a multiplication of procedures and ornaments and by the proliferation of tongue shapes, protrusions, upholstered bellies and fabric flaps. all colors. Reflecting on the flow of visual and digital stimuli, Catunda focuses on our incessant exposure to the icons, signs and emblems of mass culture.

Adding a range of landscape references to this typically contemporary dimension, the artist paves the way for a paradoxical junction of nature and artifice, de-hierarchizing pretensions of taste and high and low registers in an omnivorous and voracious process. In these hybrids of painting and object, historical motifs such as the Catholic saint in Saint Thomas (2024) coexist with logos and graphics ready made of a job like Wild Landscape II (2024). In Cinema (2024), t-shirt prints with film images cult, as Lolita ou Back to the future they form the surface of a padded volume, in a compilation of references brought together by the artist that intertwines the affective side of memory with the objects and products of the cultural industry.

The production of curved, serpentine, wrinkled, curled, folded, accumulated, antithetical and labyrinthine forms reaches maximum volume in Wild Landscape II, mentioned above, and Caprichosa (2024), where this entire visual cornucopia is arranged in a tableau of fragmentary scenes. In these works the maximalist and cumulative tendency of this body of work is emphatically condensed.

Since his last solo show at ICA Milano, in 2023 in Italy, Catunda's emphasis on draping, trim, sewing and printing have made human clothing, silhouette and physiognomy material for plastic and conceptual composition, mainly in works as Seven skirts (2024)

“The excess of images in everything that surrounds us generates a strong illusion of speed. Whether in the virtual sphere, on the internet, or in reality on the restless surfaces that cover cities, in the streets, buildings or even on people's clothes, this poignant visuality seems to provoke the sensation of a shortening of time. This way we become anxious about the future, about a future that surprises us even without us being able to choose or choose. In this new reality nothing happens, everything flows. And, in this way, life follows the crazy flow of sudden events. Adaptation implies another type of reasoning, a modification of the associative system to rediscover the ability to read this new reality and ensure space for new ideas and new destinations.” – Leda Catunda

The exhibition is accompanied by a critical essay by Carlos Eduardo Riccioppo, Professor of the Department of Arts at Universidade Estadual Paulista – Unesp.

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Exhibition | Wild landscape
From August 10th to October 5th
Tuesday to Friday, from 10am to 19pm, and Saturday, from 10am to 18pm