Waltercio Caldas: The Closest Wind and other Matters

Nearly ninety works including, installations, sculptures, objects and designs, are part of Waltercio Caldas: The Closest Wind and other Matters, an anthological exhibition presented at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo until April 7.

Curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, director of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and Ursula Davila-Villa, curator at the Blanton Museum of Art, proposes a survey that leads to reflection on the artistic production and evolution of Calda's work.

The work that gives the exhibition its title, O Ar Mais Próximo (The Closest Wind, 1991), is a paradigmatic installation that consists of thin cords of color that hang from the ceiling and form delicate inverted arches. Caldas immerses himself in the preparations for his exhibitions, and this one is no exception: her redesigns the arrangement of his works according to the measurements of walls, the location of the windows and the access to light.

The public will be presented in this exhibition with works never before exhibited in Brazil, like Eureca (Eureka, 2001) O que é Mundo. O que Não É (What is the World. What is Not?, 2011), Verde por Dentro (Green Inside, 2008), and Planisfério (Planisphere, 2011), among others.