GNR Presents:

Alexandre Arrechea, Daniel Buren, Sergio Camargo, Artur Lescher, Marco Maggi, Vik Muniz, Hélio Oiticica, Julio le Parc, Abraham Palatnik, Tunga, Xavier Veilhan

Galeria Nara Roesler | New York is delighted to announce GNR Presents:, a multimedia collective show that brings together a wide range works representing the gallery’s remarkable position as both a leading Brazilian contemporary art gallery with 30 years of experience in the South, yet a barely two year old gallery in the North. The exhibition encompasses the gallery’s twofold mission to promote Brazilian art abroad, while actively contributing to the internationalization of the Brazilian art scene through a rigorous international program. A series of talks and workshops at the gallery and throughout New York City have been organized to accompany GNR Presents:.

GNR Presents: features a selection of works that convene a cross-generational group of artists, from the global North and South, to reflect on formal concerns such as the role of color, spatiality and public in the artwork. Presenting works by seminal Brazilian artists such as Hélio Oiticica, Sergio Camargo, Lygia Clark and Tunga, GNR Presents: also showcases works by key international artists who similarly experiment with space and perception, including Daniel Buren. The exhibition also features works by young and up-and-coming artists who share these formal concerns, namely Bruno Dunley and Eduardo Navarro. While the former’s body of work considers the representational language inherent in painting, the latter’s participatory action projects activate the audience’s presence. The exhibition also subtly reflects on the concept of global North and South in its presentation of pieces by Latin American artists Vik Muniz and Alexandre Arrechea, who pay tribute to New York City in their depictions of iconic buildings, including the Guggenheim Museum and the Chrysler building.

Color extends as a thread throughout the exhibition, establishing a spatial and physical presence, which fosters corresponding relationships between works. While some artist visibly yield color on flat surfaces to reflect on form in space, others respond by presenting similar strategies in three-dimensional fields. For instance, Hélio Oiticica’s Mestaesquemas (1957 – 1958) and Lygia Clark’s Planos em Superficie Modulada (1957) are monochromatic sketches of geometric shapes that create an interplay between figure and background. These works challenge their own two-dimensionality by evoking a sense of instability, movement (as in Oiticica’s work) and depth (as in Clark’s.) Oiticica achieves these effects by partially applying a rhythmic “mirroring” strategy, whereby he replicates his patterns. Daniel Buren’s installation, Prisms and Mirrors, High Reliefs (2017), follows in this line of experimentation by seeking to enhance light and color through spatial arrangements, while going further by allowing the viewer and his space to become active participants in the work.

Another correspondence takes place between the work of Abraham Palatnik’s Untitled (2016) and Tunga’s Untitled (1999), which pertain to the artist’s Scalp series. Both works test the cognitive capabilities of fragmented media, yet Palatnik accomplishes that by juxtaposing the pictorial potential of the wood with that of paint, while Tunga assembles pliable threads of brass so as to reminisce hair held by combs. Another dialogue happens between the white sculptural relief of Sérgio Camargo’s Untitled # 268 (1970) which interacts with the minute systems in Marco Maggi’s, Language in Residence (2016). While Camargo’s sculpture straddles the polarity of surface and sculpture by allowing light to shine on the smooth forms that lie within the wood, Marco Maggi reveals a system within minutely low-reliefs.

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GNR Presents: Summer Events

Friday, July 7th | 4pm to 7pm | Summer Drinks at Galeria Nara Roesler | New York

Join us to celebrate the opening of GNR Presents:

Friday, July 21st | 8pm to 10pm | Performance, O Grivo at Triple Canopy

264 Canal Street, 3W, New York, New York

The piece presented at Triple Canopy will be the same as O Grivo will perform at the exhibition “Soundracks” at SFMOMA, curated by Rudolf Frieling and Tanya Zimbardo, on view from July 15th, 2017 to January 1st, 2018

Tuesday, July 25th | 6:00pm | Summer Guests #1: Collecting: Young & Latin at Galeria Nara Roesler | New York

A conversation about collecting with Kaeli Deane, Head of Sale of Latin American Art at Phillips, and Joey Lico, curator and director of programming for the Americas at The Cultivist

Thursday, July 27th | 6:30pm | Performance, “Paul Ramirez Jonas: Half-Truths” at New Museum

235 Bowery, 5th floor, New York, New York

The special performance will be presented within the exhibition “Paul Ramirez Jonas: Half-Truths” at New Museum, curated by Johanna Burton, Shaun Leonardo and Emily Mello, on view from July 5th, 2017 to September 17th, 2017

Tuesday, August 8th | 6:30 pm | Summer Guests #2: Workshop with Marco Maggi at Galeria Nara Roesler | New York

Marco Maggi invites the audience to slow down and refocus their attention by creating their own piece in a casual collaboration with the artist

Tuesday, August 22nd | 6:30pm | Summer Guests #3: Alexandre Arrechea on Art Outside at Galeria Nara Roesler | New York

Alexandre Arrechea delves into the expressive power of architecture and public art, a topic he has often approached in works such as the monumental project Katrina Chairs, notably installed at Coachella Festival 2016