Exhibition
Between Spaces
30 Apr 2023 – 10 Jun 2023
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- Schöneberger Ufer 71,
- Berlin
Berlin - 102785
- Germany
SETAREH is thrilled to announce "Between Spaces", our first exhibition with Brazilian artist Cybèle Varela.
About
Consistently questioned her contemporary landscape through painting, photography and video, Varela’s oeuvre which now spans over half a century. With graphic sophistication, her work from the late 1960s astutely reflects on popular iconography to picture the ‘poetry of the peripheries’ in Brazilian daily life. A prominent figure of Tropicalismo, her Pop Art aesthetic of flattened and graphic images foregrounded the modern female in urban environments, capturing incipient feminism set amongst a multicultural yet essentially patriarchal modern life.
For our exhibition we will present a selection of these historic works in conversation with paintings from the last decade which incorporate a similar flat and graphic style. The artist describes these new works as a “journey through the night where the stars, flowers and objects which create dreams interlace” in a dynamic contemporary Latino Futurism. Fantastical Sci-fi feminists set about battling environmental devastation in otherworldly spaces where they enact their cosmic reflections, battles which “last until the sun doesn’t rise on the horizon.” The exhibition will also feature Unknown, a series of portraits which activate decolonial narratives for forgotten individuals largely left unrecognized by imperialist histories.
Varela has presented solo exhibitions in galleries around the world, including the Mu- seum of Contemporary Art MAC Niteroi (2013) and National Museum of Fine Arts (2003) in Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paolo (1980, 2005), the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland (1980) and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC (1987). Her first retrospective was held at the Brasilia Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland in 2018 and Varela will receive a retrospective of the 1960s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art MAC-USP in São Paolo this summer. Her work has been included in the São Paolo Biennials of 1967, 1969, and 1981. This will be the artists first exhibition with the gallery and debut in Germany.
