São Paulo, Brasil
09/09/2023 - 28/10/2023

Starting on September 9th (Saturday), the painter and engraver Sergio Fingermann will hold the exhibition “The Space of Painting”, at DanGaleria Contemporônica, in Jardim Europa, in the South Zone of São Paulo. The exhibition, which celebrates 50 years of career and 70 years of age of the artist, has free admission and presents 40 unpublished works, the result of his last two years of work. From Monday to Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors can check out the exhibition, which is curated by the critic Agnaldo Farias, also the author of a book that bears the same title as the exhibition and which portrays the contemporary phase of Sergio’s work. The canvases presented in the Dan Contemporary Gallery exhibition still dialogue with others by the artist, which continue to be exhibited at the Lasar Segall Museum until November 6th. Together, Fingermann’s two exhibitions mark 100 works by the same artist playing simultaneously

“Two years ago, these various canvases were leaning against the walls of my studio, some ready and some not. All of them make up what I called ‘The Space of Painting’ and, over this time, they suggested new themes to me to develop and sometimes they even confused me with false perspectives and misleading perceptions of the real”, explains the artist. Fingermann became known in the medium for provoking freedom of thought through his works. In this collection, the artist explains that there is no outstanding work, since he presents creations that complement each other and that, together, recreate a new scenario and merge elements of the real and the playful. The canvases, which measure up to 2x3m, represent the theater’s coxia in scaffolding, chairs, ladders, curtains and other signs recreated in oil paint on canvas,

considered the most traditional painting technique.

According to the painter and engraver, the sensations he had during this period were reminiscent of the experience of going behind the scenes of the theater and seeing painted panels, furniture, and elements of plays that we do not know the text. “The screens are an invitation to wander without meaning, to be carried away by unexpected suggestions and by the shadows we encounter. They provoke dreams and are formed by fragments that inhabit a real space, such as scaffolding and structures that build the world we inhabit”, concludes he, who is responsible for a digital project in favor of the democratization of art through his social networks. During the pandemic, Sergio started a series of live shows on his social networks, which today already collect more than 40 thousand views each, and presents the artistic world to the public, especially the youngest, in an uncomplicated way

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