🫁 ᵀʰᵉ ᴿⁱᵛᵉʳ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶜᵒᵛᵉʳˢ ᴹᵉ at Cecilia Brunson Project, London
📸 installation shots by Eva Herzog
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“Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to announce a forthcoming group exhibition featuring Feliciano Centurión (1962 – 1996), José Leonilson (1957 – 1993) and Matheus Chiaratti (b. 1988), produced in collaboration with Gisela Projects. New works by Chiaratti construct a dialogue with Centurión and Leonilson, two artists who gave soft and poetic form to queer identity in Latin America in the 1980s-90s. An imaginary friendship between these artists from two different generations, who never crossed paths, is articulated by Chiaratti through letter writing, visual references and a shared artistic sensibility centred around love, passion and intimacy.
(...) Works by Brazilian artist Matheus Chiaratti function as an emotional cartography – a way of sorting out the world from a restless and deeply curious perspective. Throughout Chiaratti’s practice, his maternal grandmother’s gardens are restored as a territory of desire, memory and theatricality. Nature emerges as a scenery of abundance, a romantic monument to the most primal feelings. Across textile, ceramics, painting and photographic collage, the investigation of words and their poetic capacity is a central theme in Chiaratti’s production. Through evocative images of nature, art historical reference and a mapping of images and thoughts, he arranges his universe as a visual diary, a sketchbook: a world that is mythical and banal, intimate and sacred. His composite images take notes from Centurión and Leonilson, and other queer guides – Leonilson’s fountains, Centurión’s flowers, Frida Kahlo’s intense and violent love for Diego Rivera branded on her mind and her skin, and Jean Genet’s explicit writings. Amongst his own deeply personal expression is the inheritance of a culture created before him.”
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![ᵀʰᵉ ᴿⁱᵛᵉʳ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᶜᵒᵛᵉʳˢ ᴹᵉ at Cecilia Brunson Projects, in London, in collaboration with Gisela Projects Centurión: el amor (Cadouço)[Centurión: the love (Cadouço series)], 2025Acrílica sobre tela [Acrylic on canvas]120 x 150 x 4 cm | Ph. Eva HerzogIn this new series of works called Cadouço, I expand the books I’ve been painting on canvas and ceramic pieces since 2021. Here the large book becomes a space for a free-flowing process of drawing, where one element leads to another. Some symbols reappear throughout my practice (in painting and writing): lagoons, maps, and birds. This piece is dedicated to Feliciano Centurión (1962-1996), whose portrait is painted on the left page. ️The show runs until November 21st @ceciliabrunsonprojects@giselaprojects@giselagueiros #felicianocenturion #leonilson #ceciliabrunsonprojects #matheuschiaratti #giselaprojects #cocteau #illuminatedmanuscript #iluminuras #rimbaud #friezelondon](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6764442148402767151738_0_ee3a5afa18263083c5510d0755b2f78d.jpg?o=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&h=a1181600325367f4c6460ac422c40a73)
