Chico da Silva (1910 - 1985)
Bichos, 1965
Tempera on paper
22 x 30.25 inches
Courtesy Simões de Assis
Mirian Inêz da Silva (1938 - 1996)
Untitled, 1984
Oil on wood
12.20 x 15.74 inches
Courtesy Galeria Estação
Conceição dos Bugres (1914 - 1984)
Untitled, n.d.
Wooden sculpture covered with beeswax
11.81 x 5.90 x 5.90 inches
Courtesy Galeria Estação
Maria Lira Marques (b. 1945)
Sem título , c. 1990s - 2000s
Natural pigments on paper
7 x 10 inches
Courtesy Gomide & Co
Francisco Brennand (1927 - 2019)
A Mulher do faraó, 1998
Vitrified ceramics
37 x 17.88 x 14.25 inches
Courtesy Gomide & Co
Maria Lira Marques (b. 1945)
Sem título , 2021
Natural pigments on stone
9.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 inches
Courtesy Gomide & Co
Niobe Xandó (1915 - 2010)
Composition, 1968
Oil on canvas
28.34 x 35.8 inches
Courtesy Simões de Assis
Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900 - 1995)
Untitled, 1981
Mixed media on hardboard
26.77 x 23.22 inches
Courtesy Galeria Estação
Artur Pereira (1920 - 2003)
Nativity Scene, n.d.
Wooden sculpture
29.52 x 23.62 x 23.62 inches
Courtesy Galeria Estação
This year’s Curated Space, Follow My Moves, will be an exhibit of Self-Taught art from Brazil, curated by São Paulo-based Mateus Nunes, and will feature works by renowned artists such as Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900–1995), Chico da Silva (1910–1985), Conceição dos Bugres (1914-1984), and Maria Lira Marques (b. 1945).
Mateus Nunes (b. 1997, Belém, Brazil) is a curator, art critic, and researcher from the Brazilian Amazon, based in São Paulo. Nunes holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Lisbon and is a postdoctoral fellow on History of Art and Architecture at Universidade de São Paulo, with previous postdoctoral fellowships at the Getty Foundation and Universidad San Francisco de Quito. In the intersections of text and image, he is interested in non-hegemonic systems of organizing, perceiving and understanding time, history, and influence. Having collaborated with galleries and museums worldwide as coordinating courses at Museu de Arte de São Paulo, his writings are published in Artforum, ArtReview, Carla, Flash Art, Frieze, Terremoto, and academic journals.
