Geraldo de Barros is, without a doubt, one of the Brazilian artists most studied by contempora-
neity. Over the course of his artistic career he pioneered the path of multidisciplinarity, develop-
ing his work consistent with not only his own research, but also with the Brazilian political and
social contexts and with Brazilian art history. To celebrate these historical developments, the Ar-
quivo Geraldo de Barros and Luciana Brito Galeria are presenting the exhibition Objetos-Forma
[Objects-Form], which features never-before-shown works that recover a fundamental moment
in Geraldo de Barros’s career. The show opens on August 9 and occupies all the gallery’s exhibi-
tion spaces.
The curatorial concept of this show – which comes on the heels of the recent exhibition on
Geraldo de Barros at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO) of Geneva, Swit-
zerland – considers the artist’s participation in the 15th Bienal de São Paulo, presenting on that
basis a set of 66 silkscreen prints that recovers Barros’s idea to allow the public to reproduce his
artworks. On the occasion of the 15th Bienal, Geraldo de Barros presented five paintings in oil
on polyurethane lacquered wood, accompanied by the manifesto “Da retomada de alguns ob-
jetos-forma da arte concreta” [On the Recovery of Some Form-Objects of Concrete Art], which
set forth ideas related to concrete art (Design/painting-object) associated with the possibility of
large-scale production, as is proper to industrialization. Through this “instruction manual,” the
Luciana Brito Galeria announces an exhibition
featuring a never-before-shown series by Geraldo de Barros
Geraldo de Barros, “Da retomada de alguns objetos-forma da arte concreta”, N.o 32, 1979/2022
artist offered a completely new possibility to the visitors, giving them not only the elements for
the reproduction of his artwork, but also an authorization for “each person or spectator to be
provided with the elements of each one of the designs and thus be able to produce them,” thus
eliminating the unique-object.
