Galeria Nara Roesler is proud to celebrate León Ferrari's centennial anniversary with the virtual exhibition, León Ferrari in São Paulo, curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas. "León Ferrari (1920-2013) lived in exile in São Paulo from 1976 to 1991. During this period the artist was able to renovate his production, conceiving new formal typologies previously unseen in his work while systematizing his radical, sarcastic, critique of Power and Religion. Ferrari's most compelling legacy within his Brazilian production relates to his re-reading of the Bible and the denunciation of political horrors and institutional violence. In appropriating images of war, history and art history Ferrari entirely re-invented collage for the purposes of his deconstruction of Power - such as Michelangelo's Final Judgment that was submitted to the defecation of birds in a major mature performative work - as well as conflating Christian imagery with Oriental erotic images."