Carroll Dunham's “Wrestlers” are on display at Almeida & Dale

Opening this Saturday, the exhibition “Examining Myself and Others: Victor Arruda and Carroll Dunham,” curated by Dan Nadel, presents a collection of paintings and drawings by artists with careers spanning more than 50 years.  

For over 50 years Dunham’s work has constantly cannibalized itself. His “self-recycling” revisits themes of human existence – trees, guns, the planet, bathers and wrestlers, for example – while simultaneously insisting on the formal attributes of painting. In the early 1990s, his work drew attention for its primitive forms and colorful motifs. In the late 2000s Dunham began using the term “protagonist” instead of “subject” when referring to his compositions. Yet if his works imply any narrative, he has said, it is always “a story I tell myself,” acknowledging that self-generation is his own motivating fiction.  

Dunham’s works are held in institutional collections such as Tate, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo; The British Museum, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho.

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“Examining Myself and Others: Victor Arruda and Carroll Dunham” 
Curated by: Dan Nadel 
Opening: July 13, from 11am to 4pm 
Almeida & Dale 
Rua Caconde, 152 - Jd. Paulista, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
Content Rating: PG-18