ALMEIDA Y DALE

São Paulo | Brazil
Director | Hena Lee

Founded in São Paulo in 1998, Almeida & Dale promotes the legacy of both emblematic and emerging artists, advancing contemporary artistic production on the national and international stages. With three locations in São Paulo, the gallery maintains an outstanding exhibition and publishing program, builds partnerships with renowned institutions and collections, and participates in the world’s leading art fairs, establishing itself as one of Brazil’s most influential galleries. Representing more than 50 artists and estates, Almeida & Dale brings together key figures from Brazilian modernism, pivotal artists in the development and international projection of contemporary art, as well as active creators who continue to redefine the artistic horizon. By combining artistic expertise with a strategic understanding of global market dynamics, the gallery fosters the expansion and visibility of Latin American art through an approach that continues to amplify and energize the art world globally.

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ESTE FOCUS

Booth walkthrough with the artist
Vanderlei Lopes

In English, without translation.
Open to the public.

Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Venue: Pavilion VIK
Ruta 10, Km 182.5, José Ignacio

CURATORIAL VISION

For ESTE Arte, Almeida & Dale presents a solo by Vanderlei Lopes. The booth features six new works in which Lopes, for the first time, employs aluminum in his sculptures, which evoke flowing liquids, puddles, and everyday objects. With varied finishes, the metal surfaces are sometimes mirror-like—intensifying the illusion of water—sometimes darkened with patina, or painted to resemble ordinary objects and debris, such as cigarette butts, Styrofoam cups, and crumpled paper. In addition to these larger pieces, the presentation includes a piece made entirely of silver—a material echoed in the reflective quality of the aluminum—painted to resemble a sheet of paper bearing a satellite image of an inverted South America. Countering the material’s inherent value and adding contemporary political lens to a staple of Uruguaian art. Created specifically for the fair, the works engage with the site from historical and mythological perspectives, and with the coastal landscape where the fair takes place. Through a play of language and semiotics, Lopes’s sculptures reflect on the nature of the contemporary art object, its systems of circulation, and issues such as climate change, consumption, and Latin American politics and history—tensioning luxury and waste, rarity and ordinariness, beauty and decay.

BIO

Vanderlei Lopes (Brazilian, b. 1973) explores in his sculptural practice the intersections between artistic tradition, representation, and systems of circulation, often addressing the cultural and social processes that shape our perception of objects. His works are marked by an “indexical” quality: ordinary objects and ephemeral situations are cast or imprinted with almost photographic precision, generating frictions with the spaces they inhabit and drawing attention to temporality—oscillating between historical distance and immediate presence. Solo exhibitions include Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo (2017); Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2015); and MAM Rio de Janeiro (2014). He has also participated in the 22nd Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala (2021), the 7th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2009), and notable group shows at MuBE and Sesc 24 de Maio in São Paulo. His works are held in the collections of MAM São Paulo, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, MAC USP, MAR Rio de Janeiro, MAM Rio, Instituto Itaú Cultural, and Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, among others.

ESTE FOCUS

Túlio Pinto, Artist
In conversation with César Escandarani, CEO, Planet Partners

Tuesday, January 7, 2025
6:50 PM 7:30 PM
Pavilion VIK

BIO

Túlio Pinto (b. 1974, Brasília, Brazil) works and lives in Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil. He has held several solo exhibitions, such as "Buraco no Céu" at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba, Brazil, in 2023; "Land Line" at Fondamenta Sant’Apollonia and Piero Atchugarry Gallery in Venice, Italy, in 2019; "Tres Tiempos" at Galeria Senda in Barcelona, Spain, in 2018; "Athar" at Galeria Piero Atchugarry in Garzón, Uruguay, in the same year; and "Onloaded" at the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art in the USA in 2015.
Noteworthy groups show that Pinto has participated in the 13th Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2022; and "Manifesta" in Lyon, France, in 2021. His work is part of the collection of the Marta Herford Museum, Germany; Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Manantiales, Uruguay; Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson, Madrid, Spain; Piramidón, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art of Paraná, Brazil; Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; National Museum of Brasília, Brazil; Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil; among others.

CURATORIAL

For its first participation in ESTE Arte, Millan presents a selection of works by Túlio Pinto. Building on the debates initiated by minimalism and Brazilian constructive art, Pinto's work uniquely engages with the concepts of harmony, balance, and ephemerality, positioning him among the leading Brazilian sculptors of today. The works in the “Cumplicidade” series, created with steel blocks or bars and blown glass bubbles, are organized into precise arrangements of balance and the interplay of forces that sustain themselves autonomously. These pieces challenge assumptions and oppositions between fragility and resistance, lightness and weight, acting as catalysts for reflections on ephemerality and transformation surrounding the relationship between bodies and space.

According to architect and curator Guilherme Wisnik, “Túlio Pinto blends something of Fred Sandback’s constructivist and surrealist lightness with the empty, anodyne volumes of Sol LeWitt, forging his path between abstraction and figuration, pendulating in the air as if it were a seesaw of stones.” These operations, understood by the artist as a “performance of materials,” result in a precise organization of the components that make up the works—considering the properties and antagonisms of the materials, which allow the pieces to remain static.