EDUARDO CARDOZO IN MIAMI: POETICS OF MATERIAL AND TIME
Mindy Solomon Gallery presents a collaborative exhibition with AppArt Paris to showcase the work of Eduardo Cardozo, the Uruguayan artist representing Uruguay at the 2025 Venice Biennale. Primero fue el gesto (First was the gesture) marks his first solo show in Miami, featuring seminal works produced between 2009 and 2024.
Crafting pieces that resonate with art history, materiality, and the passage of time, Cardozo brings a distinctive warmth and subtlety to his surfaces. Whether it's a large-scale canvas breathing through unprimed fabric with soft, saturated tones or a textile work made from remnants of old paintings, each piece feels like a suspended fragment of time.
In works like Péndulo (2009), floating forms seem to drift through space, leaving a faint trail behind. Wispy lines tether ephemeral shapes, captivating the viewer in the image’s hazy transitions. Íntimo (2021), a small yet powerful piece, features his signature oil-on-layered-canvas technique. Its surface evokes the walls of his studio and the plaster textures of Old Master paintings.
At the 60th edition of Venice Biennale, Cardozo stood out with a contemplative presentation amidst politically charged pavilions. Referencing the Venetian painter Tintoretto, he created Latent, an immersive installation that proposes a relational act between two painters across time and space: Cardozo in Uruguay and Tintoretto in Italy. The dialogue unfolds in three gestures: the nude, represented by a studio wall transferred to Venice using the stacco technique; the vestment, a reinterpretation of a Tintoretto sketch for Paradise; and the veil, sewn from gauze used to move the studio wall. Together, these elements create a symbolic counterpoint between south and north, Uruguay and Italy, Cardozo and Tintoretto.
Cardozo’s work centers on the idea of meticulous reflection—a deep inquiry into material resources and the challenges of painting as a representation of “mental space.” His visual language draws from modernist references such as Paul Klee, Francis Picabia, Wassily Kandinsky, and Hans Arp.
The series of works selected for this exhibition embody this ongoing investigation. Throughout the show, the pictorial space is defined by the tempo of manual techniques: the slow, uncertain gesture of the brush, the intentional voids, and the visual interruptions. Within that rhythm, Cardozo invites viewers into the shared intimacy of the creative process.
Primero fue el gesto will be open until July 13, 2025 at Mindy Solomon Gallery, 848 NW 22 Street, Miami, FL 33127 (United States).
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