Galeria Passado Composto Século XX, June-July 2009, São Paulo
Curator
Modern architecture, which emerges forcefully in the 1940s in Brazil, has given rise to precious Brazilian furniture that only recently is beginning to be properly valued. The exhibition showed pieces of four masters of the modern movement: Joaquim Tenreiro, Sergio Rodrigues, Jorge Zalszupin and Jean Gillon. To the styles of the past, brocades and velvets unthinkable in the tropical climate, these designers countered with furniture and objects for the house tuned to the here and now, and in general making use of wood, especially rosewood. Because of the aesthetic and technical quality, the furniture of this period achieved the status of timeless classics, a quality increasingly rare in a world that delights in disposable and fleeting. It is his timelessness mentioned in the title, that a double meaning of “modern” comes into play. Exhibition design by Giancarlo Latorraca.
Photos Mariana Chama
