Um galo sozinho não tece uma manhã

Exposición / Mendes Wood DM - São Paulo / R. Barra Funda 216 / São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil
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Cuándo:
Desde 01 abr de 2025

Inauguración:
01 abr de 2025 / 11 a 18 h.

Precio:
Entrada gratuita

Organizada por:
Mendes Wood DM

Artistas participantes:
Guglielmo Castelli

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

The artist chose to title this first exhibition at Mendes Wood DM’s São Paulo gallery with Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto’s poetic verse: Um galo sozinho não tece uma manhã [One rooster alone does not tell a mornin]. The poem is an ode to the multitude, to solidarity and collaboration. It first appeared in the collection A educação pela pedra [Education by Stone]. This collection was published in 1966 when Brazil was being governed by a military dictatorship that was to crack down on artists and intellectuals with increasing violence over the subsequent years. The metaphor of the rooster only being able to call forth the morning’s brightness, if accompanied by multiple others, resonates as much then as it does today. Upon this core principle, many of the Brazilian avant-garde (Concretists and Neoconcretists) built their practices, often premised on the spatialization of form, which Castelli too approaches for the first time in this exhibition. While absolutely at one with his long-standing research and practice, Castelli has expanded the perimeters of his research by breaking through the fourth dimension and creating an immersive installation, or a set for his works to be shown in. His architectural intervention alters the viewer’s perception of the gallery while being led to walk over a raised platform that leads to three large-scale works. There is a sense of vertigo in being raised above ground, which is the same sensation evoked in the works where Castelli uses kaleidoscopic perspectives to offer an alternative viewpoint. The drawings that cover the floor below the platforms also make the onlooker aware of their corporeality in relation to the work. – words by Sofia Gotti

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