EDUARDO FERNANDES

São Paulo | Brazil
Director | Eduardo Fernandes

Founded in 2005 by Eduardo Fernandes, whose formation in architecture and anthroposophy deeply shaped the gallery’s vision. Before establishing the gallery, Fernandes practiced as an architect for six years across São Paulo and other Brazilian cities, while cultivating a longstanding passion for contemporary artistic production. His transition from architecture to art was rooted in a desire to bridge thought and material manifestation, and his sensitivity for artistic processes has defined the gallery since its inception. Today, Galeria Eduardo Fernandes represents 19 Brazilian and international artists working across a wide range of mediums. Since 2011 it has been a regular participant in national and international art fairs, building a reputation for fostering experimentation and positioning its artists within both Brazilian and global contexts.

www.galeriaeduardofernandes.com

ESTE FOCUS

Booth walkthrough with the artist
Heloisa Crocco

In English, without translation.
Open to the public.

Monday, January 5, 2025
8:10 PM 8:50 PM
Pavilion VIK, José Ignacio

CURATORIAL VISION

For ESTE ARTE 2026, 12th edition, Galeria Eduardo Fernandes presents Heloisa Crocco’s project “Cartographies of Matter”, conceived especially for the public of ESTE ARTE and Uruguay. The works reflect on space and plane, expansion and contraction, bridging rawness and refinement, order and chance. Since her Amazonian research in the 1980s, Crocco has considered nature and humanity inseparable, translating this ethos into works that carry the vitality of texture and color. By reusing industrial wood remnants, she grants new cycles to discarded matter, engaging ecological responsibility alongside aesthetic investigation. “Cartographies of Matter” highlights Crocco’s compassionate, reflective, and profoundly contemporary approach to material and environment, resonating with Uruguay’s tradition of concrete and constructive art.

BIO

Heloisa Crocco (Brazilian, b. 1949) studied Drawing at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, learned tapestry with Elizabeth Rosenfeld, and trained with Tom Hudson at Cardiff College of Art. Since the 1980s, she has investigated fibers, wood, and natural materials, developing a language that bridges pre-Columbian textile traditions, modernist Concretism, and contemporary design. Her research spans the Amazon and Andes, where she studied artisanal techniques and the cultural role of fibers. Crocco’s works are rooted in the dialogue between handmade processes and industrial remnants, often reclaiming discarded wood to create abstract compositions of rhythmic textures and colors. She has exhibited widely across Europe and the Americas and is recognized as a key figure in Brazilian contemporary abstraction.