RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The exhibition Espelho Labirinto (“Labyrinth Mirror”) is on display in Brasília, opening the 2022 calendar at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB). There are 180 works by 86 artists that aim to inspire visitors to get lost in a labyrinth of textures, materials, perspectives, and colors.
The works will occupy Galleries 1 and 2 and the Glass Pavilion (Pavilhão de Vidro) until March 13, 2022, and are curated by Vicente de Mello and Aldones Nino. They say the writer Clarice Lispector, author of intimate texts, was the great inspiration for the exhibition format.
The exhibition suggests to the visitor, playfully, a walk through the authors and their connections in a rare opportunity to get to know 180 works in a single place.
The collection is part of the Sérgio Carvalho Collection and, among the artists, are award-winning names such as Christus Nóbrega, Luiza Baldan, Flávio Cerqueira, Sandra Cinto, Regina Silveira, Coletivo Três Pe, Sofia Borges, Nazareno, Laerte Ramos, André Severo, and Paula Krause. Most of the exhibited artists won or were nominated for the PIPA Award, which recognizes contemporary Brazilian artists.
The artists in Labyrinth Mirror have innovation and provocation in common and challenge the viewer’s certainties. Their works and artistic approaches reflect the idea of reflections and metamorphosis in Gallery 1, containment and landscape in Gallery 2, and transparencies in the Glass Pavilion.
Check out the complete list of artists on the exhibition’s website. Tickets are free but must be reserved online here.
THE CURATORS AND THE COLLECTOR
Photographer, essayist, and curator Vicente de Mello has a degree in Social Communication from Estácio de Sá University, and a specialization in Art History and Architecture in Brazil from the university Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
Aldones Nino is Associate Curator of Collegium (Arévalo, Spain) and Education and Training Advisor of Instituto Inclusartiz (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Granada in a co-doctoral thesis with the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Sérgio Carvalho, a lawyer, has lived in Brasília since 1969 and considers himself a “Brasília-native” at heart. He is the guardian of more than 2,300 works by 180 contemporary Brazilian artists. The collection is regarded as one of the largest in Brazil.
Exhibition Espelho Labirinto
CCBB Brasília, until March 13
Tuesday to Sunday from 9 AM to 8:30 PM
Location: SCES, Section 2, Lot 22, Brasília
Phone number: +55 (61) 3108-7600