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Anderson Borba presents “Black Faun” (2026), the artist’s first outdoor sculpture, in “The Storytellers,” a group show curated by Iwona Blazwick e Katie Fallen at Worcester College, Oxford. The figure of the faun—poised between human and animal, body and instinct, and often bound to music—offers a useful lens for Borba’s piece, where bronze, wood, and stone converge into an “almost-body” composed of abstract fragments. Rather than coalescing into a stable figure, these volumes suggest a material and sensorial presence, while a form recalling a flute introduces the idea of breath and latent sound, as if the work were organized around an invisible, animating force. __ Anderson Borba @borbaa apresenta “Black Faun” (2026), sua primeira escultura ao ar livre, em “The Storytellers”, mostra coletiva com curadoria de Iwona Blazwick e Katie Fallen no Worcester College, em Oxford. A figura do fauno—situada entre humano e animal, corpo e instinto, e frequentemente associada à música—oferece uma chave de leitura para a obra de Borba, na qual bronze, madeira e pedra convergem em um “quase-corpo” composto por fragmentos abstratos. Em vez de se consolidarem em uma figura estável, esses volumes sugerem uma presença material e sensorial, enquanto uma forma que evoca uma flauta introduz a ideia de sopro e som latente, como se a escultura se organizasse em torno de uma força invisível e animadora. 📅 Through Jul 05, 2026 [Até 05.07.2026] 📍Worcester College, Oxford Ph: Fisher Studios

Opening today ☀️ Join us this afternoon for the opening of The Unearthed by Brazilian artist Anderson Borba. Borba works primarily with found wood sourced locally to his studio in Barra Funda in São Paulo, alongside materials such as cardboard, textile, plaster, and found images from books, magazines and photography. These serve as starting points for processes of carving, hollowing, scorching, pressing, painting and gluing, resulting in heavily worked, enigmatic forms that seem ‘partly animal, partly plant, partly humanoid, partly extraterrestrial.’ Today, Sat 21 March, 1.30–4.30pm All very welcome | Free entry | Wheelchair accessible | Refreshments available Exhibition runs 21 March-31 May Open Thurs-Sun, 11am-4pm Or by appointment out with those times

⭐️ TONIGHT ⭐️ Anderson Borba ‘Secret Ceremony’ ✨ Preview: Wednesday 4 June, 6-9pm 📆 The Approach is pleased to present Anderson Borba ‘Secret Ceremony’, the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Borba lives and works in both London and São Paulo. Through his practice he seeks textural ambiguity, twisting and expanding the material and conceptual possibilities of wood, creating autonomous totems or hanging wall reliefs. Accompanied by a text by Bernardo José de Souza @bersouza Coinciding with the fifth edition of @londongalleryweekend (6 - 8 June) the exhibition continues until 26 July. Follow link in bio for more info 📲 IMAGE: Anderson Borba Analog Ghost, 2025 Wood, paper, stone, plaster, pigment, oil pastel, sawdust and shellac 150 x 19 x 21 cm Photo: @lelenthal @borbaa #andersonborba @fortesdaloiagabriel #theapproach

Anderson Borba ‘Secret Ceremony’ ✨ Preview: Wednesday 4 June, 6-9pm 📆 The Approach is pleased to present ‘Secret Ceremony’, Anderson Borba’s first solo exhibition with the gallery comprising new sculptures and paper collages. Borba lives and works in both London and São Paulo. Through his practice he seeks textural ambiguity; twisting and expanding the material and conceptual possibilities of wood to create autonomous totems and hanging wall reliefs. Coinciding with the fifth edition of @londongalleryweekend (6 - 8 June) the exhibition continues until 26 July. Follow link in bio for more info 📲 IMAGE: Anderson Borba Fluke, 2025 Wood, magazine pages, printed paper, oil pastel, lacquer 33 x 45 x 7 cm @borbaa #andersonborba @fortesdaloiagabriel #theapproach

📍East @approachgallery For the fifth edition of London Gallery Weekend, The Approach presents Anderson Borba (6 June – 26 July 2025), the Brazilian artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, comprising new sculptures and paper collages. Borba lives and works in both London and São Paulo. Through his practice, he seeks textural ambiguity, twisting and expanding the material and conceptual possibilities of wood, creating autonomous totems or hanging wall reliefs. A distinctive feature of Borba’s approach is the synthesis of traditional techniques with contemporary modes of expression, such as digitally manipulated images where the boundaries between image and material blur. Borba’s practice involves negotiating with materials to determine the final form of his works. The artist carves, burns, paints, presses, and manipulates these elements in a process-driven construction, resulting in rough, cracked, yet seductive body shapes. Influenced by both the historical canon of sculpture and the self-taught artists of Brazil’s interior, Borba operates within a complex interplay between concept and experience, displacing and unfolding the physical body into an anthropomorphic abstraction. His sculptures, marked by a strong sense of physicality, often assume near-human scales, gazing impassively at those who observe them. – Anderson Borba, Elf Arrow, 2024, wood, paper, plaster, wood stain, oil pastel, transparent gesso, steel, 186 x 35 x 40 cm, 73 1/4 x 13 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist and The Approach, London. Photo: Michal Brzezinski. @borbaa @fortesdaloiagabriel #LondonGalleryWeekend

O Pivô Salvador recebe em período de residência artística, de 01 a 31 de outubro, o artista Anderson Borba (@borbaa ). As esculturas de Anderson Borba empregam madeiras industrializadas, algumas encontradas, mas na sua grande maioria, são madeiras de um contexto urbano, além de materiais como páginas de revistas, principalmente National Geographic, impressos de propaganda de rua e imagens impressas tiradas com câmeras de celulares. Esses elementos refletem uma cultura urbana de excesso e servem como ponto de partida para seu trabalho. O artista talha, queima, pinta, prensa e manipula esses materiais em uma construção orientada pelo processo, resultando em formas corporais ásperas, rachadas, mas sedutoras. Influenciado tanto pelo cânone histórico da escultura quanto pelos autodidatas do interior do Brasil, Borba trabalha em uma complexa interação entre conceito e experiência, deslocando e desdobrando o corpo físico até o ponto de uma abstração antropomórfica. A residência é uma parceria com a Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (@fortesdaloiagabriel ). Acesse o perfil do artista no site do Pivô: .br/participantes/anderson-borba/ Nas imagens (cortesia do artista e Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel): 1. Borba; 2 e 3. Holi-slanted-pink, 2024, foto de Eduardo Ortega; 4. Foliage, 2024, foto de Eduardo Ortega; 5 e 6. Figura alta (inquieta), 2024, foto de Ding Musa; 7. Torso II, 2024, foto de Ding Musa; 8. Cabeça lll (deitada e pelada), 2024, foto de Ding Musa.

'Eu não confio' coletiva organizada por Ana Clara Tito @aclaratito imagem: Anderson Borba @borbaa Mooring, 2024 madeira e papel 42 × 74 × 6 cm agradecimento @fortesdaloiagabriel Cavalo - Rua Sorocaba 51, Botafogo, RJ terça a sexta de 12h às 19h sábado de 13h às 17h

Hoje é o último dia para ver a exposição no @auroras.art.br , que para mim foi um enorme presente. Foi um diálogo maravilhoso que tive com artistas que admiro imensamente: @dudimaiarosa e @luisabrandelli . Também gostaria de agradecer muito @ricardo_kugelmas , @victorgorgulho @fortesdaloiagabriel @giseladomschke por essa fantástica oportunidade.

A mostra-diálogo de Anderson Borba (@borbaa ) e Dudi Maia Rosa (@dudimaiarosa ) abre amanhã, sábado, dia 22 de junho, no auroras (@auroras.art.br ) em São Paulo, das 15 às 19h. Pautada pela relação particular de cada artista com a matéria, a exposição apresenta obras que tensionam os limites entre escultura e pintura, imagem e objeto. _ The dialog exhibition between Anderson Borba and Dudi Maia Rosa opens tomorrow, Saturday, June 22 at auroras in São Paulo, from 3 to 7 pm. Structured around each artist’s particular relationship to matter, the show presents works that bend the limits between sculpture and painting, image and object. _ Ph: 1–2. Anderson Borba, Torso II, 2024. 3. Dudi Maia Rosa, Sem título [Untitled], 2024 #AndersonBorba #DudiMaiaRosa #fortesdaloiagabriel

Today is last day to see ‘Thinking Hands’, mine and Gokula Stoffel’s duo show at @francoisghebaly ’s New York space! In our first U.S. exhibition, we present a dialogue of sculptures, paintings and weavings that reveal intricately textured surfaces, bodily allusions and a tactile approach to materiality @gokula @francoisghebaly