ARCOmadrid 2026
Luciana Brito Galeria announces its participation in ARCOmadrid 2026 with a selection that reaffirms the relevance of contemporary Latin American artistic research as critical thinking and a space for memory and the construction of identities. The project brings together historical works by Regina Silveira (1939, Brazil), Augusto de Campos (1931, Brazil), Geraldo de Barros (1923 – 1998, Brazil) and Waldemar Cordeiro (1925, Italy – 1973, Brazil), in dialogue with Antonio Pichillá (1982, Guatemala), Bosco Sodi (1970, Mexico), Caio Reisewitz (1967, Brazil), Leandro Erlich (1963, Argentina), Liliana Porter (1941, Argentina) and Marina Abramović (1946, Serbia).
Since the late 1950s, Regina Silveira has occupied a central role in Brazilian art, investigating representation and image. Discurso, from the Dilatáveis series (1981/2022), conceived in the context of her doctoral thesis Simulacros (ECA-USP, 1984), uses photographic images whose distorted shadows subvert traditional perspective. The series was a highlight of the 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021). The gallery also presents Augusto de Campos's Poema bomba (1987), linked to Concrete Poetry, of which he is one of the founders. The work condenses word, form and sound into an intense visual impact. In 2025, the artist released Pós Poemas, defined as "my last book of poems," which gives its title to the exhibition currently on view at the Luciana Brito Galeria.
The gallery also presents emblematic works by Geraldo de Barros and Waldemar Cordeiro, fundamental in the transition from modern to contemporary art in Brazil. Geraldo de Barros's Indeterminante ótica de duas formas iguais (1953/1996) reaffirms the principles of Concrete Art, while the series Sobras (1996–1998/2024), his last production, brings together photographs and archival negatives in collages that reconfigure memories and narratives, recently presented in its entirety by the gallery for the first time in history. Waldemar Cordeiro's painting Untitled (1963), from the Intuitive Geometry phase, maintains the concrete structure, but adopts greater formal and chromatic freedom, evoking tropical luminosity and the morphology of Brazilian plants. The work was featured at the Venice Biennale (2024).
The legacy of these artists paves the way for current research, such as that of Antonio Pichillá and Bosco Sodi, who evoke culture and ancestry, and of Caio Reisewitz and Leandro Erlich, attentive to political and environmental issues. Bosco Sodi's exhibition Kugi will be on view, between March 3 and 10, at the Hilario Galguera Galería, in Madrid. Leandro Erlich's Coral Car (2024), an offshoot of his research for Concrete Coral (2025), within the context of The ReefLine ecological project in Miami Beach, is part of the “Conscious & Creative” initiative by Lladró, in partnership with Kreëmart, launching at the Luciana Brito Galeria's booth, on March 5.
