Itu, Brazil

19/10/2024 — 19/01/2025

The DAN Acredita Project opens the exhibition Deslinde & Diversionismo by the artist Laerte Ramos in Sala São Pedro

Laerte Ramos is the newest artist in the DAN Acredita Project and opens a new exhibition at DAN Galeria Sala São Pedro. The purpose of this project is to give visibility to the professional artistic production of artists without representation from other galleries, but with a constantly moving curriculum, with developed language and dedicated exclusively to the visual arts. For a period of 18 months, DAN Galeria undertakes to present and accompany the artist’s work, to hold a group or individual exhibition at the DAN Galeria Sala São Pedro unit, in addition to institutionally accompanying the

artist.

Curated by Carol Splendore, the exhibition includes a large group of works including sculptures, installations and tapestries in the most varied materials, such as ceramics, porcelain, wood, lead, wool, etc. According to the curator, “Deslinde” brings together the meeting point between trace and territory, in a continuous process of unveiling and settling, as in the works Retroland and Omen: the initial layer — a beginning of the world — is exposed in its essence. In “Diversionism”, on the other hand, the game of forms becomes subversive. Laerte, with his peculiar ability, reconfigures objects and symbols, tracing deviations on unforeseen paths. Here, in Anti-slip and Seven Boys Patrol, playfulness not only deconstructs the original function, but also reimagines it, transforming the familiar into the unusual

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About the artist

Laerte Ramos (Brazil/São Paulo, SP, 1978) stands out in the Brazilian contemporary art scene, especially for his printmaking and large ceramic installations. He works with woodcut, serigraphy, painting, sculpture, tapestry, using techniques and materials that

challenge him as a tireless artist-researcher.

Graduated in fine arts from the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation — FAAP with a bachelor’s degree (2001) and a degree (2002), his research focuses mainly on the reproductive media of the image, the seriations on different media and the relationship with the cities and places where they are produced or exhibited. Since the second half of the 1990s, Laerte Ramos has participated in important group shows, and over the past twenty-six years he has held several solo exhibitions in Brazil and abroad

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He has participated in artistic residency programs at renowned institutions in France, the United States, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Portugal and China, and his curriculum has a unique record in our country with 34 awards as an artist and also as a curator. The head of the production company “Studium Generale” and its jewelry brand ODKAZ provides several fronts for the exchange of knowledge between artists, designers, cultural agents, and the idealization of special projects and exhibitions. He is founder and director of “Ar: Acervo Rotativo” — an independent collection of contemporary art measuring 5×5 cm, connecting artists from all regions of Brazil. He lives and works in São Paulo.

Deslinde & Diversionism

From October 19, 2024 to January 19, 2025

DAN São Pedro Room Gallery (FAMA ITU Museum)

Bartolomeu Tadei Street 09 Alto, Itu SP

Hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Phone (15) 99136 0301