Kogan Amaro Gallery, the São Paulo based gallery with a Zurich branch, participates at Zurich Art Weekend for the first time with installations by awarded Brazilian artist Marcia Pastore
Think as a collective and act on behalf of the other. This is the goal of the exhibition Amigo Secreto, a group show that opens on Saturday, December 5, at the Galeria Kogan Amaro.
“Not every portrait is a tribute.” Who better to problematize the bourgeoisie, than the bourgeois themselves? Who better to dismantle the construction of whiteness than those who benefit from it?
In one of her most famous works, produced in 1985, German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009) runs towards this wall set on stage and, as a result, tumbles her body down on the floor.
Kogan Amaro Gallery brings to its Zurich branch from June 6 to July 11 “Flávio de Carvalho: The New Man from the Tropics” with female drawings of the avant-garde multidisciplinary Brazilian artist, along with the New Look (Experience n.3)…
Twenty-two year old Samuel de Saboia confronts the spectator with his reflections on social aesthetics, self-acceptance, sexuality, life and death, angels and demons. However two contrasting sentiments recur like a leitmotiv across his output: the notion of pleasure versus pain both aesthetic and personal. In his paintings on canvas or leather, sculptures and air-dry clay ceramics in his exhibition brought to Zürich by Kogan Amaro Gallery, pleasure and pain pulsate.
From her earliest pieces to the most recent works, there’s coherence within her production. Marcia Pastore creates sculptural and installational shapes equipped with intrinsic autonomy and intellectual grasp, like pure acts of invention.
In a letter written to his brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh explains that, to him, sounds were also displayed in color and certain tones, yellow and blue being two of them, reverberated across his senses like fireworks.
In her mostly abstract works, Isabelle Borges explores patterns and structures she encounters in the visible world. Her main focus is on the geometry of the spaces between things and the resulting spatial dynamics. She generates pictorial spaces that expand and contract evoking spatial fabrics in motion.
Sérvulo Esmeraldo’s singular work (1929 – 2017) will be exhibited from January 10th, 2020, at Galeria Kogan Amaro’s Zurich space. Curated by Mr. Ricardo Resende, the show Jouer avec le Cercle highlights the multiple character of Mr. Esmeraldo’s work…