ARPA 2026

27.05 - 31.05.26

Luciana Brito Galeria and Galeria Estação are pleased to announce their collaborative booth at the 2026 edition of ArPa. For the occasion, Luciana Brito Galeria is presenting a special selection of paintings by Gabriela Machado (b. 1960, Rio de Janeiro) alongside new sculptures by Estúdio Campana (Fernando Campana, 1961–2022; Humberto Campana, b. 1953, São Paulo). They are shown in dialogue with the works that Galeria Estação is presenting, by Santídio Pereira (b. 1996, Piauí) and André Barion (b. 1996, São Paulo). Bringing together different generations, repertoires, and visual languages, the selection proposed by the two galleries highlights multiple approaches to landscape in contemporary art, exploring it not only as a depiction of the natural world, but also as a symbolic, affective, and cultural territory, shaped by the distinct ways in which these artists perceive, inhabit, and reimagine their surroundings.

In this group of paintings – several of which were recently shown in her solo exhibition Ainda Bem, Atravessei as Nuvens at Luciana Brito Galeria – Gabriela Machado weaves together fragments of stories, memories, and landscapes observed in her travels and in everyday life. These seemingly ordinary moments gain density and poetic force as the artist reinterprets them, recording not only scenes, but also the chromatic atmospheres and sensations that pass through her experience. The sculptures by Estúdio Campana, made in materials such as glass and rope, evoke organic forms that seem to hover between nature and imagination, as if surfacing from Gabriela Machado’s own pictorial universe. In both bodies of work, manual practice serves as a structuring principle, drawing painting and sculpture into a shared field where matter, rhythm, and sensory experience intertwine. In the works by Estúdio Campana, the Brazilian popular imagination – expressed through color, material, and form – is reconfigured into vivid, dynamic compositions that affirm design as a space for experimentation, exchange, and transformation.

The work of Santídio Pereira and André Barion likewise transforms landscape into a sensory experience through an exploration of its formal qualities. Santídio Pereira creates compositions marked by material restraint, silence, and contemplation, bringing nature, memory, and spirituality into proximity through woodcut, drawing, and painting. André Barion, in turn, constructs organic, fragmented surfaces from fabric, stitching, and layered overlays, producing works that move between the vegetal, the bodily, and the abstract. For both artists, matter takes center stage: carved wood and sewn textiles preserve the traces of gesture, time, and transformation. Working through contemporary procedures, each artist revisits Brazilian material traditions while opening up a dialogue between restraint and expansion, emptiness and proliferation – one in which landscape no longer operates as a description, but emerges instead as a poetic and perceptual field.

Artist CV

Gabriela Machado’s research is focused mainly on painting. The imagery of day-to-day experience is a great source of inspiration, providing the artist with parameters for landscapes and still lifes, in which she emulates small slices of everyday life on the canvas. Her processes spring from quick, organic and spontaneous gesturality, lending pure visuality to the lively colors and forms. As an outgrowth of this aesthetics, she also creates sculptures, in which she investigates shapes through the potentials of other materials, such as clay, plaster and bronze.

Gabriela Machado received her BA in architecture from Universidade Santa Úrsula (RJ), in 1984. She then furthered her studies in art at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (RJ), between 1985 in 1993, as well as in open courses. She has held solo shows at notable venues including Fundação Eugênio de Almeida (2019, Évora, Portugal), the Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (2018, Santa Catarina), Auroras (2017, São Paulo), MAM (2016, Rio de Janeiro), the Espaço Caixa Cultural (2009, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), and the CCBB (2002, Rio de Janeiro). She has participated in group shows held by prestigious museums and organizations that include Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (2025, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil), Paço Imperial (2014, Rio de Janeiro), Oi Futuro (2014, Rio de Janeiro), Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (2025 and 2012, Ribeirão Preto) (2012, São Paulo), Centro Cultural São Paulo (2011, São Paulo), the Museu de Arte da Pampulha (2010, Belo Horizonte), Centro Universitário Maria Antônia (2002, São Paulo), and MAM (1999, Salvador). Her work figures in the collections of important institutions, including those of the Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte), the Instituto Brasileiro de Arte Contemporânea (IBAC, Rio de Janeiro), and the Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (Santa Catarina).

Fernando Campana. 1961, Brotas, São Paulo, Brazil - 2022, São Paulo, Brazil
Humberto Campana. 1953, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

Artist CV

The brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana were partners since 1983, being recognized worldwide for their work in design. Their art, which was previously strictly in furniture, now extends beyond the limits of multidisciplinarity and establishes design as a path for telling stories, uniting architecture, fashion, scenography and landscape architecture. Through their studio, Estúdio Campana, the brothers have pushed the envelope in terms of the resignification, recovery and reuse of materials, proposing simple and creative solutions, while recovering manual practice. The collective popular mindset of Brazil, with its colors and shapes, is translated into dramatic pieces full of movement and meaning, promoting the art of design as a tool for the exchange of knowledge, transformation and social inclusion. Humberto Campana has led the works with Campana Studio and Foundation since 2022. 

The Estúdio Campana was founded in 1984. Their first solo show was held at Nucleon 8 (1989), followed by the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (1991), the Museu da Casa Brasileira (1996, São Paulo, Brazil), MAM-SP (2001), the Design Museum, London (2004), the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2007), the Musée Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (2012), and MAM-RJ (2020), The Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2024, Shanghai, China), among many other venues. The venues of group shows they have participated in have most notably included Centre Pompidou - Metz (2025 and 2023), Design Museum, London (2022), MoMA-NY (1998), the Crystal Palace, Milan (2003), Centre Pompidou (2005), the Triennale di Milano (2015), Somerset House, London (2018), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2020) and the Denver Art Museum (2021). Their pieces figure in important collections such as those of Centre Pompidou (France), the Musée Des Arts Décoratifs (France), MoMA-NY (USA) and MAM-SP (Brazil). In 2009, they founded the Instituto Campana to promote design as a social tool. They have also received various honors and awards, being ranked among the most important design professionals by the magazine Wallpaper (2014–15), and, in 2012, they were conferred the Colbert Committee Award (Paris), honored by Design Week (Beijing), received the Order of Cultural Merit (DF) and the Order of Arts and Letters of the Ministry of Culture of France, and were elected as Designers of the Year by Maison & Objet of Paris. In 2008, they won the Design/Miami Designer of the Year Prize.