Exhibition "Baroque Suite"

O Santander São Paulo Lighthouse, center of culture, leisure, tourism and gastronomy, opens on July 19th (Friday), the unprecedented exhibition IURI SARMENTO – Baroque Suite, highlighting the trajectory of the contemporary artist who revisits the Brazilian baroque, mixing the erudite and the popular, the sacred and the profane, the kitsch and the classic, nostalgia and irony. Curated by Denise Mattar, the exhibition presents 66 works created between 1996 and 2024, including paintings and objects.

The exhibition is presented by the Ministry of Culture, Esfera and Santander Brasil, occupies the entire gallery on the 19th floor and will be on display until November 03rd (Sunday).

Iuri Sarmento is an artist who rescues Brazilian artistic heritage through a dynamic and current look. His works, created with a wealth of detail, combine elements such as scrolls, transparencies, gold, lace, porcelain and tiles, transporting the visitor to a world full of affectionate memories.

In his artistic career spanning more than three decades, Iuri Sarmento has participated in individual and collective exhibitions, in national and international galleries and institutions, receiving the Pipa award online in 2011. In São Paulo, this will be his first major solo show.

“It is with joy that Farol Santander brings to the public the exhibition IURI SARMENTO – Suite Barroca, presenting a Brazilian artist who rescues our artistic heritage through a dynamic and current look. The selection of works allows us to follow the transformations in Iuri Sarmento's construction process, highlighting, at the same time, the coherence that runs through his work.”, comments Maitê Leite, Institutional Executive Vice-President of Santander Brasil.

Without fear of beauty and ornament, Iuri fragments images to recode them, and there are volutes, acanthus, tiles, grids, saints, angels, dragons, as well as saints, trinkets and characters from Brazilian syncretism. He also flirts with fashion and the history of painting, introducing lace, damask, dresses, printed fabrics, and emblematic works by visual artists. In fact, Iuri Sarmento has already had work exhibited in the 2016 edition of São Paulo Fashion Week.

The exhibition brings together sixty-six works in groups of the artist's works, such as: a set of subtle and delicate lace; compositions that include antique dishes decorated with reproductions of their own floral details; and the exercise of restoring tiles and broken porcelain. In addition to canvases, one of the sets brings together 35 small-format paintings, composing a dense, multicolored panel that highlights the artist's mastery of perceiving details. Reinterpretations by artists such as Di Cavalcanti and Debret, and entities such as Oxóssi, São Jorge and Cabocla Jurema, are also represented.

Establishing a synthesis and a central point towards which the exhibition converges, there is a showcase in which the artist's objects are presented, pieces made with shards of precious porcelain and tiles, which seem to share the fantastic world of the Catalan Gaudí, with his mysterious characteristics. .

“A musical suite is a composition consisting of a series of pieces or movements, generally united by a common theme, style or tonality. It is a perfect definition to describe the work of Iuri Sarmento, whose compositions connect different elements of the baroque universe. Integrating techniques from the past and present, he patiently and carefully processes and reprocesses these erudite representations that are part of our history, giving them a contemporary guise and a popular counterpoint.”, reports Denise Mattar, curator.

Sarmento began his artistic production in the 1990s and brought to this exhibition works that encompass his entire creative process, also including recent works, such as the paintings and compositions Cabocla Jurema (2023) and Oxóssi (2021). Among older works, Sem Título (1996) and A Bola (2007) stand out.

About Iuri Sarmento

Iuri Sarmento (Montes Claros, MG, 1969). Painter and sculptor. Born in Minas Gerais, he graduated in Fine Arts from Escola Guignard, Belo Horizonte, holding his first solo exhibition in 1992. In the same year, he moved to Salvador.

In 2013, the artist moved to São Paulo. Among the artist's solo exhibitions, the following stand out: About saudades and mirrors, curated by Marcus Lontra (Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, 1999), Barroco Reinventado, curated by Solange Farkas (Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, 2008), Paintings (Celina Albuquerque Galeria , DF, 2000), Baroque Pop (Galerie Agnès Monplaisir, França, 2014), Paintings (Laura Marsiaj Galeria, RJ, 2015), O Paraíso Resiste, curated by Marcus Lontra (Galeria Luís Maluf, SP, 2019) and Paintings (Galeria Murilo Castro, MG, 2022).

The artist participated in important collective exhibitions, including six editions of the Salão MAM Bahia de Artes Plásticas, Painting: alternative repertoires at Rumos Itaú Cultural Artes Visuais (Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Penápolis and Curitiba, 1999), in the exhibition Cinco Artistas Contemporâneos no Centro Cultural Ramon Alonso Luzzy (Cartagena, Spain, 2000), Salão da Bahia 1994-2002 (Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, PE, 2005), New acquisitions, Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand (Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, 2014), Bienal de Curitiba (PR, 2016), Museu de Dona Lina, curated by Daniel Rangel (Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, 2021). In 2011, the artist was the online winner of the Pipa Prize.

Service
Exhibition | Baroque Suite
From July 19th to November 03rd
Tuesday to Sunday, from 09pm to 20pm