GROUP EXHIBITION

Featuring a critical essay by curators and researchers Tomás Toledo and Guto Ezek, the exhibition offers a new perspective on this curatorial project, which, as early as the 1970s, brought to the international stage contemporary art into dialogue with works by self-taught artists who were then largely overlooked by the market because of their association with the field of popular art.

Drawing from the gallery’s collection, the exhibition brings together works from different periods by the artists who took part in the 1978’s Italian exhibit, not as a reconstruction of the original display, but as an expanded reading of their practices.

They are: Carlos Fajardo, Geraldo Teles de Oliveira (G.T.O.), Júlio Martins da Silva, Luiz Aquila, Maria Auxiliadora, Madalena dos Santos Reinbolt, Paulo Garcez, and Wilma Martins, alongside works by Indigenous communities of the Upper Xingu and new ones from Middle Xingu and landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, whose contributions were presented in Venice through audiovisual works commissioned from filmmaker Marcelo Tassara.