GDA – GALERIA DE ARTISTAS LANDS AT ZIELINSKY BARCELONA WITH THE GROUP SHOW PERQUIRERE
By Álvaro de Benito
The Barcelona venue of Zielinsky hosts GDA – Galeria de Artistas in its space and presents its group exhibition Perquirere. The show brings together works by several Brazilian artists associated with GDA, who share a common approach to research and to questioning the categorization of Western art. The selection of works seeks to move away from the stereotypes that have shaped the notion of so-called “brasilidade,” while reinforcing the institution’s aim to promote Brazilian artistic thought and practice.
Bruno Baptistelli (São Paulo, Brazil, 1985), who has also curated the exhibition, presents Afro-Brazilian Flag (in dialogue with David Hammons) – 2nd version, a piece in which the national colors are replaced by those of the Pan-African flag, along with several works from his T series, where he explores the letter as both a formal structure and a political sign.
Carolina Cordeiro (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1983), in turn, evokes vernacular architecture and the lines of sewing through sculptures and drawings that incorporate zinc to create a personal visual code. Juliana dos Santos (São Paulo, Brazil, 1987) explores the sensory dimension of the blue pigment derived from the Clitoria ternatea flower—known as the butterfly pea—to convey the symbolism of time’s passage upon this natural color.
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Bruno Baptistelli. Sin título - serie T, 2025. Foto Ana Pigosso, cortesía de GDA
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Bruno Baptistelli. Bandeira Afro-brasileira (em diálogo com David Hammons) - 2a versão, 2020. Foto Ana Pigosso, cortesía de GDA
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Carolina Cordeiro. Sin título, 2025-2. Foto Ana Pigosso, cortesía de GDA
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Juliana dos Santos. Sin título, 2025. Foto Ana Pigosso, cortesía de GDA
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Carolina Cordeiro. Sin título, 2025. Foto Ana Pigosso, cortesía de GDA
On a social level, Manauara Clandestina (Manaus, Brazil, 1992) focuses in her series Por enquanto 35 on transvestism as a framework to address identity and political existence, while Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (Buritizeiro, Brazil, 1989) examines colonial structures and semiotics through conceptual strategies, as seen in T, a thermometer measuring the room’s temperature, and Hometown, a clock set to the time zone of Minas Gerais.
Perquirere can be visited until January 23, 2023, at Zielinsky Barcelona, Mercader 10, Barcelona (Spain).
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