Good afternoon to the things down here at OLHÃO / São Paulo

Tiago Mestre and Dudi Maia Rosa
Good afternoon to the things down here

March 14 - May 2
By appointment only

OLHÃO
288 Barra Funda Street
São Paulo











Photos: Julia Thompson
Images courtesy of the artists and the gallery


OLHÃO is pleased to present the duo show Good afternoon to the things down here by Tiago Mestre and Dudi Maia Rosa. The exhibition can be seen as a narrative that focuses specifically on one's relationship with the landscape, referring to the deep and ancestral connection between nature and built form. 
The conceptual starting point is the thought-exteriority connection that is present in the universe of the two artists, the affinity of the work with the sensual world, with the landscape, with the body and with the cosmos. Sculpture is understood as one of the privileged means of mediating these two instances of the creative process: thinking and doing.


Dudi Maia Rosa (1946, São Paulo; lives and Works in São Paulo). 
Solo shows: “Lírica”, Galeria Millan (2019); “Vrido”, Galeria Millan (2016); “Cábulas”, Centro Cultural Maria Antônia (2013); “Trabalhos recentes”, Galeria Millan (2012); “Plásticos”, Galeria Millan (2009); “Cábulas”, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, SP (2013), “Eu sou um Outro”, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, SP (2008); Maria Antônia Cultural Center (2002); André Millan Galeria (1993) e “Pinturas e Esculturas”, MASP-SP (1978). Group shows: “Queermuseu - Cartografias da Diferença na Arte Brasileira”, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, and “Modos de Ver o Brasil: Itaú Cultural 30 anos”, Oca, SP (2017); “Auroras - Pequenas Pinturas”, SP (2016); “Uma coleção particular - Arte contemporânea no acervo da Pinacoteca”, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, SP (2015); “10ª Bienal do Mercosul, Mensagens de Uma Nova América”, Porto Alegre (2015); “Brasiliana: Moderna Contemporânea”, MASP, SP (2006); 5ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2005); “Mostra do Redescobrimento: Brasil 500 Anos”, no Pavilhão da Bienal de São Paulo, SP (2000); “Bienal de Joanesburgo”, África do Sul (1995); “Bienal Internacional de São Paulo” (1987 e 1994) and “Panorama da Arte Atual Brasileira”, MAM - SP (1973, 1986, 1989 e 1993). He has works in several collections, including: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, MASP, MAC - USP, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, MAM-SP, City Art Collection, Dulce e João Carlos Figueiredo Ferraz Collection, Itaú Collection, Metrópolis Collection of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum, and Collection Pinault.


Tiago Mestre (1978, Portugal; lives and works in São Paulo).
Graduated in Architecture, Architecture Faculty of Lisbon University (2001), and master’s degree at FAU-USP (2016). Participated in MAUMAUS Independent Visual Arts Studies Program, Lisbon (2009), and attended the Painting course at Ar.co, Lisbon (2009). Participated in artistic residencies: GASWORKS, London (2019), Troy Town Pottery, London (2019), PIVÔ Art and Research, SP (2016) and WIELS Residency, Brussels (2009). Solo shows: “Smog”, Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro, SP (2019); “Tiger, Tiger”, Centro Brasileiro Britânico, SP (2019); “Smoke gets in your eyes”, curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli, Kupfer Projects, London (2019); “More News from nowhere”, Colégio das Artes de Coimbra (2018); “Noite. Inextinguível, inexprimível noite”, curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli, Galeria Millan, SP (2017); “Fundação”, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Paço das Artes, SP (2016); “La Californie”, Centro Cultural São Paulo (2016); “All the things you are”, curated by Marina Coelho, Kunsthalle São Paulo (2014); “Speech”, curated by Paulo Miyada, Galeria b_arco (2013); “Secret life of materials”, curated by Fernando Oliva, Centro Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro (2012) and Wiels Residency Projects, Belgium (2009). Group shows: “Barefoot”, curated by Tonico Lemos Auad, Large Glass Gallery, London (2019); "Studiolo XXI: desenho e afinidades”, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora; “Jardim das delícias. Juízo final”, Galeria Cavalo, Rio de Janeiro (2018); “Completely something else”, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Cyprus (2016); “Raid_8”, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, SP (2016); “Festival Arte Atual - Coisas sem Nomes”, curated by Paulo Miyada, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, SP (2015); "Escape", Lund’s Konsthall, Sweden (2011); “Liquid archivesPlatform3”, Munique (2009); XV Bienal de Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal (2009).