Vermehlo gallery

The day before yesterday I went to a great space in Consolosao, just off Avenida Paulista on Rua Minas Gerais. 

Galeria Vermelho has a new architectural project adjacent to its main gallery building here, deisgned by Hector Zamora. The building is a labyrinth of rooms, glass stairways, "passages and pseudo-passages, passages for the gaze" set on many levels. 

Maquette of Cicero gallery project by Hector Zamora

Andre Komatsu

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Amilcar Packer

Daniel Senise

Leya Mira Brander
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Marcelo Cidade

The work in Vermelho belongs to the distinct school of Sao Paulo art that is so connected with architecture and space that I am finding everywhere. It is the kind of work I am interested in, but I may be getting an overload. It is very cold, rational and often allied to a minimalist reduction of space. It is easy to understand why artists working in this way are shown in this city. An australian artist who has been doing a residency in the north of Brazil commented that he thought the work came from a desire to create clarity within such a chaotic space. I will be very interested to see how art in Rio differs from art here. I wonder a similar distinction can be made between Rio and Sao Paulo art as was evident in the schism between the rational and sensorial approach to space in the concretist movement here in the 1950s.

After spending a lot of time at Vermelho, we wandered to Pinheiros (another very long walk) and went to a very different gallery called Choque Cultural (Cultural Shock). 

Next we visited Galeria Vergilio.