Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Francisco Tropa , Portugal
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"MISS AMERICA"
Francisco Tropa, Cheminée, 2025, painted plywood, patinated bronze, screen print on plywood, 158 x 90 x 30 cm unique, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, photo : Pedro Tropa
For his solo exhibition at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Francisco Tropa presents the second chapter of Miss America. The exhibition brings together sculptures and photogravures. Sculptural partitions display, on one side, silkscreened images and, on the other, painted brass still-life compositions. They are accompanied by several bronze sculptures — Concha, Pedra, and OCO II — as well as Naufrage, a series of photogravures produced using smoke.
Francisco Tropa was born in 1968; he lives and works in Lisbon.
Time, tales and formal aesthetics are the main elements of his work. The artist links stories together, retelling mythologies, technologies, science and societies. Tropa uses several media – sculpture, drawing, performance, engraving, installation, photography and film — to convey a series of reflections catalysed by the different traditions of sculpture and science. His installations abound in precise and precious objects, geometric and elaborate forms, delicate prototypes and complex machines. His pieces are most clearly underpinned by the notion of time. Time is also decisive in the studio work by the artist, who sometimes develops his projects over several years.
In addition to participating twice in the Venice Biennale (in 2003, in the international exhibition, and in 2011 as the representative of Portugal), he has taken part in the Rennes Biennale (2012), the Istanbul Biennale (2011), Manifesta (2000), the Melbourne Biennale (1999), and the São Paulo Biennale (1998). His solo exhibitions of the past decade include: Miss America, Palazzo Toschi, Bologna (2025); Paésine, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, 2024; ⒶMO-TE, Museu Serralves, Porto, 2024; Le Poumon et le Cœur, Musée d’art moderne de Paris, 2022; Che Vuoi?, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, 2022; The Pyrgus from Chaves, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2019); Scripta (performance), Centre National de la Danse, Paris, 2018; Gigante (performance), Festival MOVE, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2018; TSAE – Trésors submergés de l’ancienne Égypte, Musée régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, 2015; TSAE – Tesouros Submersos do Antigo Egipto, Museu de Lisboa, 2014; STAE – Submerged Treasures of Ancient Egypt, La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Brussels, 2013.
Solo show of Francisco Tropa
From April 29 to June 20, 2026
Rendez-Vous
Friday 29 May 2026 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Opening of the exhibition – Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Paris, France 01 42 03 05 65 www.galeriewolff.com
The gallery
Based in Paris, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff has been promoting a rigorous and committed vision of contemporary art for over twenty years, supporting emerging artists while fostering the recognition of historical figures. The gallery has developed an artistic program guided by progressive aesthetic values, encouraging the circulation of both artworks and ideas.
Gallery artists
Manuel Alvess (estate of), William Anastasi, Zbyněk Baladrán, Diego Bianchi, Katinka Bock, Mélissa Boucher Morales, Colette Brunschwig, Marcelle Cahn, Miriam Cahn, Harald Klingelhöller, Irene Kopelman, Isa Melsheimer, Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger, Imre Pán (estate of), Santiago de Paoli, Ulrich Polster, Prinz Gholam, Elodie Seguin, Francisco Tropa, Franz Erhard Walther, Christoph Weber, Clemens von Wedemeyer
