Ricardo Fernandes
Essential Quotes to Live - Juan Esteves , Brazil
Untitled, from the project Essential Quotes to Live, Juan Esteves, 2020, Gravure sur papier Litho Archiv Matt 230 g/m2, 53 cm x 38 cm (20.8 in x 14.9 in)
For his first solo exhibition in Paris, Juan Esteves proposes contemporary works, created from excerpts of books and interviews of great thinkers (Friedrich Nietzsche, Edgar Morin, Simone de Beauvoir, Elizabeth Badinter, Hannah Arendt, Umberto Eco, Renato Janine Ribeiro, Benedito Nunes, etc.) and a selection of elements, ranging from photographs and texts in half-tone, to the most recent works of the artist Badinter, Hannah Arendt, Umberto Eco, Renato Janine Ribeiro, Benedito Nunes, etc..) and a selection of elements, ranging from photographs and texts in half-tone, to illustrations and color applications, digitally worked by the artist, to create a series of unprecedented serigraphs.
Choosing as a title a sentence taken from Guy Debord's book, Panégyrique : "quotations are useful in an era where ignorance and obscurantism prevail" Juan underlines the analogy between the content of this sentence and the current reality in Brazil, which tends towards misogyny, homophobia and negationism, without however renouncing humor.
In fact, Juan Esteves also proposes a playful search that will allow us to discover for ourselves who the characters are, what their literary and artistic works are, thus inciting us to carry out an intellectual exercise leading to the questioning of the Brazilian status quo.
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Rendez-Vous
Saturday 5 June 2021 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Vernissage Essential Quotes to Live – Juan Esteves
Saturday 5 June 2021 at 7:00 pm
Web meeting Zoom with 4 Brazilian women artists : Ana Luiza Rodrigues, Andrea Rocha, Sylvia Morgado et Tetê de Alencar. Discuss the concept of (De)construction in the creative process (activity in Brazilian Portuguese)
Sunday 6 June 2021 from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Round table discussion with Glaucia Nogueira, Ioana de Mello (moderator), Pierre Bessard and Ricardo Fernandes, on Brazilian photography in French collections (activity in French)
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The gallery
The Ricardo Fernandes Gallery opens the doors of the international Contemporary Art market to talented artists.
It is the continuation of a work of more than twenty-five years that began with the inauguration of a first gallery in Brazil and gave birth to an international career during which Ricardo Fernandes has actively promoted his artists.
The gallery offers exhibitions of of plastic arts related to the most diverse fields (painting, sculpture, photography, installations...) and is open to a wide variety of contemporary artistic expressions.
Through its constant support to international artists and its involvement in the development of an international in the development of an international market in full expansion, the Ricardo Fernandes gallery participates in the diversity and the artistic and cultural interaction of the city of Paris.
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Gallery artists
Adélio Sarro • Eduardo Fonseca • José Diniz • Juan Esteves • Kakati de Paiva • Kati Riikonen • Leopoldo Martins • Lita • Cerqueira Loredana • Lucia Adverse • Lula Ricardi • Marcelo Solá • Maria A. Listur • Mathilde Thiennot • Roland Schmitz • Sami Korhonen