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Rubem Valentim - Sacred geometry

Artist Spotlight

Rubem Valentim (b.1922, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) started painting as a child and began his professional artistic career in the late 1940s, when he participated in a movement of renovation of the arts in Bahia. Before dedicating himself to his artistic career, he worked as a Journalist and Dentist. His multidisciplinary formation included studies in areas such as Journalism, Art History and the Humanities in general, Afro-Brazilian culture and popular music. Born and raised in Salvador, the city with the largest Black population outside the African continent, Valentim was surrounded by the mystic symbology of the African religious universe in Brazil, mainly Candomblé and Umbanda, which play central role in the artist’s symbolic universe.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024

Almeida & Dale presents a century of work by Brazilian artists united in a shared imaginative spirit and a deep sense of mystery and strangeness, qualities that echo their engagement with Surrealism and other avantgarde movements.

Ivan Campos: Envisioning Forests

Artist Spotlight

Ivan Campos (b. 1960, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil) draws inspiration from the Amazon rainforest, where his connection to rivers, streams, and the spiritual energy of the forest finds form on canvas. The jungle in his paintings is densely populated with forms that challenge classical landscape structure, leaning towards abstraction. Campos’ works resonate as ethereal visions of an interconnected and complex ecosystem, both thriving and under threat.

Temporal Landscapes: Evolving Perspectives

Curated by: María Inés Rodríguez

Through installations by Marlene Almeida and a selection of works from the Almeida & Dale collection, including Tomie Ohtake, Farnese de Andrade, Eleonore Koch, Djanira, Ione Saldanha, Leonilson, Joseca Yanomami and Vivian Caccuri, a delicate but significant continuity is revealed between different territories, times and artistic practices.

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Examining Myself and Others: Victor Arruda and Carroll Dunham

Curated by: Dan Nadel

Almeida & Dale is pleased to present an exhibition pairing Victor Arruda and Carroll Dunham in a duet of painting and drawing. The artists are linked through their explorations of masculinity, conflict, sex, and consciousness through bent and gendered figures that exist in and against impossible environments, and vibrant colorways.

Heitor dos Prazeres

Art Basel 2024

For the Feature section of Art Basel 2024, Almeida & Dale presents a selection of works by Heitor dos Prazeres, including oil paintings on canvas, wood and cardboard, made mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. The group of works highlights the artist's unique and vibrant style, characterized by the expressiveness of the colors and the representation of themes related to Black Brazilian culture: scenes of urban and rural daily life, popular festivals and street games, portraying characters such as samba musicians and dancers, bohemians, candomblecistas and workers – themes with unavoidable political implications, since the multi-artist's production reflects on the post-slavery reality and the forms of resistance and preservation of Afro-Brazilian culture.

Lygia Pape: ação-dentro

Curator: Ana Avelar, Assistant curator: Laura Rago

The exhibition "Lygia Pape: ação-dentro" [Lygia Pape: Action-inside], curated by Ana Avelar and by the assistant curator Laura Rago, presented and realized by Almeida & Dale, seeks to bring new perspectives on the production of Lygia Pape, an artist who marked 20th century Brazilian art and whose work reverberates in contemporary production.  Contributing to an overview of Lygia Pape's methodologies, the exhibition, with around 50 works, including installations, papers and three-dimensional works produced between the 1950s and 2000s, proposes an immersion in the artist's experimental universe and establishes a line of research that sheds new light on Lygia Pape's body of work.

Contra-Flecha 2: Gestos de amor, práticas de sedução

Curated by Germano Dushá, Rafael RG e Fabíola Rodrigues

“Gestos de amor, práticas de sedução” (Gestures of Love, Seduction practices) brings together works by established artists belonging to the Almeida & Dale’s collection, in addition to guest artists and new talents, selected via public call.

Here lies the desert, and within it I dream myself; here the oasis, and in it I know not how to live

Curated by Galciani Neves

Immerse yourself in the realm of Iberê Camargo and Oswaldo Goeldi at the exhibition held by Almeida & Dale on view at Casa SP–Arte. The exhibition beckons an analysis of the existential space, showcasing unparalleled views of works from 1940 to 1990. It brings together reflections on artistic processes and the essence of being across the displayed pieces.

Candice Lin: Hospitality to Ghosts and Mario Ishikawa: Archeological Site

Curated by Yudi Rafael

Curated by Yudi Rafael, these showcases signal the launch of the annual program "Transoceanic Perspectives", dedicated to artistic production in the Asian diaspora with a focus on the Americas

Leonilson. Political Body

Curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio

Proposing reflections and questions that go beyond the time and territory lived by Leonilson, the exhibition brings to light his vision of the world marked by the fight against stigmas and the search for a social caring policy.

Hélio Melo

Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

Born and raised in a rubber plantation, Hélio Melo (1926–2001) was a rubber tapper, boatman, barber, watchman, writer, poet, musician and artist. From the late 1970s onwards, after having moved to Rio Branco (capital of Acre, State in the Amazonian region) and, therefore, starting to paint the forest from memory, he participated in his first exhibitions, drawing the attention of important artists and critics.

Contra-Flecha: Arqueia mas não quebra

Curated by Germano Dushá, Rafael RG e Ariana Nuala

“Arqueia mas não quebra” (Bend but don't break) brings together works by established artists belonging to the Almeida & Dale’s collection, in addition to guest artists and new talents, selected via public call.

Rodrigo Andrade: Pintura Paisagem

Curated by Lorenzo Mammì

An exhibition that brings together for the first time landscapes painted by the artist over the last twenty years. Rodrigo Andrade was part of the Casa 7 group, which stood out for renewing painting in the 1980s. With works in large formats, expressive brushstrokes and strong colors, his production reflected the influence of international neo-expressionism.

Sidney Amaral: one mirror over history

Curated by Luciara Ribeiro

The exhibition enhances the relevance of the work of this artist, one of the most original of his generation. Reflecting on the place of black people in Brazilian society, his paintings, drawings and watercolors bring up social, historical and political issues in a critical and powerful approach.
A deep understanding of his production is fundamental for analyzing and reviewing Brazilian history.

I will defoliate my eyes in this dark veil
100 years of Antonio Bandeira

Curated by Galciani Neves

The exhibition embraces the painter's trajectory and places together works that cover different moments of Antonio Bandeira’s production - from the first figurative paintings to the large canvases of dense weaves and paint drips of his last years of life.

Ilê Funfun: A Homage to the Centenary of Rubem Valentim

Curated by Daniel Rangel

The exhibition celebrates the work of this fundamental artist for thinking about African cultural heritage and Brazilian art. and brings together the essentials of his career.

John Graz

The exhibition recovers the importance of John Graz's performance for the consolidation of modern furniture design in Brazil, this selection highlights the diversity and eclecticism of the Swiss artist who chose this country as his home.
Elegant and innovative, John Graz's furniture reveals both his approach to Bauhaus principles in its concern for structure and functionality, as well as a clear influence of Art Deco in the delicacy of lines and shapes. His work was a precursor of modern furniture design in the Brazilian scene, introducing crucial issues such as serial production and research for alternative materials.

Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante:
Global itineraries, aesthetics in transformation

Curated by Iatã Cannabrava and José Antonio Navarrete

This unprecedented project presents the aesthetic transformations of Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante production, from 1940 to 1980 through 137 photographs, by 40 artists, in addition to bulletins and catalogs part of the exhibition.
(Photo: João Minharro, Curva do progresso, c. 1976)

Agnaldo Manuel dos Santos – The Conquest of Modernity

Curated by Juliana Bevilacqua

The largest exhibition dedicated to the work of the black artist, who died at age 35, brings together around 60 wooden sculptures, produced between 1953 and 1962. The curator's research on Agnaldo's work was based on testimonies and documents to present an artist to the public which subverted the modernity granted to him, by not accepting to explore only the themes that they tried to impose on him.

Sacilotto - The Vibration of Color

Curated by Denise Mattar and Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro

Highlighting his mature original production from 1974, which remained constant and intense until his death in 2003, the exhibition presents the different searches Sacilotto pursued over these years, during which he carried out the most vibrant kinetic research in Brazilian art, followed by an impressive chromatic investigation.

Terra and Temperature

Curated by Germano Dushá

Through a diverse set of paintings, drawings, sculptures and objects, the exhibition proposes an engaging environment to discuss universal issues based on their local manifestations.

Men at Work - The city that never sleeps, in the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante imaginary

Curated by Iatã Cannabrava

The first Almeida & Dale’s virtual exhibition is dedicated to photograpy and shows the era when brazilians art modernism achieved the most relevant transformation in the photo model.

The Extraordinary Impurities of Miriam Inez da Silva

Curatorial assistance: Ana Clara Simões Lopes

A painter and engraver born in 1937 in Goiás, Miriam was a student of Ivan Serpa at MAM-RJ and participated in two International Biennials of São Paulo (1963 and 1967). Almeida & Dale Art Gallery, brings the work of the artist still unknown to the public.

Candido Portinari: Iara Ballet

Discover the history of the Ballet Iara through the drawings and paintings by Candido Portinari created for the costumes and scenarios.The idea of Balé Iara arose in 1941, during a meeting between the poet Guilherme de Almeida and Wassily de Basil, director of the Original Ballet Russe, who, enchanted with Brazilian culture, sought to integrate the richest Brazilian elements into the innovative ballet. Maestro Francisco Mignone was the composer responsible for the musical part of the Ballet Iara.

Burle Marx: Recreated Paradises

Curated by Guilherme Wisnik

Roberto Burle Marx was one of the most important landscapers of the 20th century. He incorporated a plastic aesthetic into the creation of landscapes and tirelessly experimented with and searched for new solutions for his art. Landscaping carried the logic of plastic arts, in unique aesthetic perception, through the use of shapes, textures, color, volume, and shadows, transforming public and private spaces. A multifaceted and restless artist, he was a landscaper, a painter, a sculptor, a jewelry designer, a ceramist, an ecologist, and a musician. He created fabrics, jewelry, costumes, sets, sculptures, prints, and gardens with his avant-garde and modern artistic style.

Flávio de Carvalho

Flávio de Carvalho was a prominent personality in São Paulo's culture, working in architecture, visual arts and theater. His extensive and multiple productions includes the activities of painter, draftsman, architect, scenographer, decorator, writer, playwright, playwright and engineer.

Farnese de Andrade

After sometime working initially with engraving, by the mid-1960s Farnese de Andrade began to produce assemblages with objects such as doll heads and bodies, plaster and plastic saints, all corroded by the sea, collected in rivers, beaches and landfills. These works incorporate glass domes, cabinets, oratories, niches, boxes and religious images, and postcards.