by Stephanie Wruck | Dec 13, 2023 | Article, Emphasis, Events
“Art is a magic that makes hours melt and even days dissolve in seconds, isn’t that right, dear?” – Leonora Carrington
SIGNS POINT TO YES is an exhibition that ends the first year of existence of Coletivo Amarelo, bringing together the works of all our female artists. Half celebration, half rite of passage, these are works that portray the mysterious parts of his artistic processes. Playful, unpredictable and dreamlike, there is a feminine oracular force that unites the exhibition, connecting the familiar with the world of the unknown.
Among the works presented, a certain desire for illumination is evident, in which the artists seek to reveal symbolism through layers of paint, detailed drawings and cryptic photographs. Both artists and sorceresses, the works bring with them a mystical character, inviting the public to question what they see.
Perhaps the interpretations of shadows and colors of Juliana Matsumura can provoke a meditative response;
The enigmatic photographs of Natalia Loyola they can attract the viewer's gaze to unfamiliar contexts;
The feminine iconography of Shikha Baheti offers a glimpse into the nourishing, labyrinthine experience of motherhood;
The colorful landscapes of Gabriela Albuquerque they merge into the horizon, questioning the power of nature over human arrogance;
The surreal environments of Jerusa Simone they can cause a feeling of familiar discomfort through the use of repetitive elements;
The luminous paintings of Veridiana Leite they live between reality and the world of dreams, operating as portals to different dimensions;
The abstract paintings of Ana Coutinho exhibit a complete lack of control, following the artist's intense gestures and organic forms.
Regardless of how we choose to explore each artist's work, the exhibition is an invitation to experience the sublimity that emerges from each work. Through the eyes of these women and the visual interpretations they give to their materials, we can see each of them attempt to capture and potentially understand the limitless poetic capacity of the universe. By playing with the invisible, we shake the magic ball number eight and receive an optimistic and affirmative answer to all our questions: signs point to yes.
The exhibition is open until January 13, 2024.
Curated by: Stephanie Wruck
by Stephanie Wruck | Nov 29, 2023 | Emphasis, Events
SIGNS POINT TO YES is an exhibition that ends the first year of existence of Coletivo Amarelo, bringing together the works of all our female artists. The opening takes place onon December 7th from 6pm to 9pm.
Half celebration, half rite of passage, these are works that portray mysterious parts of his artistic processes. Playful, unpredictable and dreamlike, there is a feminine oracular force that unites the exhibition, connecting the familiar with the world of the unknown.Among the works presented, a certain desire for illumination is evident, in which the artists seek to reveal symbolism through layers of paint, detailed drawings and cryptic photographs. Both artists and sorceresses, the works bring with them a mystical character, inviting the public to question what they see.
Perhaps the interpretations of shadows and colors of Juliana Matsumura can provoke a meditative response;
The enigmatic photographs of Natalia Loyola they can attract the viewer's gaze to unfamiliar contexts;
The feminine iconography of Shikha Baheti offers a glimpse into the nourishing, labyrinthine experience of motherhood;
The colorful landscapes of Gabriela Albuquerque they merge into the horizon, questioning the power of nature over human arrogance;
The surreal environments of Jerusa Simone they can cause a feeling of familiar discomfort through the use of repetitive elements;
The luminous paintings of Veridiana Leite they live between reality and the world of dreams, operating as portals to different dimensions;
The abstract paintings of Ana Coutinho exhibit a complete lack of control, following the artist's intense gestures and organic forms.
Regardless of how we choose to explore these artists and their creations, the exhibition is an invitation to experience the sublimity that emerges from each work. Through the eyes of these women and their visual interpretations of their media, we can see each of them attempt to capture and potentially understand the limitless poetic capacity of the universe. As we play with the invisible and shake the magic number eight ball, we receive the optimistic and affirmative answer to all our questions: signs point to yes.
Stephanie Wruck
Curator
by Stephanie Wruck | Nov 7, 2023 | Article, Emphasis, Events
Yellow Collective at the Affordable Art Fair in Hamburg
After participating in the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam, Coletivo Amarelo will be present in the Hamburg edition. The fair opens on the day November 9th and extends until the 12th. The Affordable Art Fair features a number of German and international galleries that will present thousands of contemporary and affordable works of art. Among the artists who will be exhibited at the fair are Jerusa Simone, Osias André, Natália Loyola, Shikha Baheti, Gabriela Albuquerque, Juliana Matsumura and Gianlluca Carneiro.
Affordable Art Fair
The first edition of the Affordable Art Fair took place in Battersea Park, in London, in October 1999. At first, the fair had an audience of 10 thousand people interested in buying art. These include original contemporary paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
After all these years, the Affordable Art Fair takes place in more than 10 cities around the world, including London, New York, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels, Singapore, Stockholm, Melbourne and Sydney, with two new fairs to open coming soon to Shanghai and Berlin.
In each of its editions, the fair welcomes thousands of art enthusiasts and provides a wide variety of art. They feature established and emerging artists in a mix of local, national and international galleries with affordable artwork.
The Affordable Art Fair is an opportunity to discover emerging artists and galleries at an affordable price. It encourages the democratization of art and its consumption.
The vernissage takes place on November 9th between 6pm and 10pm. For more information about fair times, visit the fair's website Affordable Art Fair!
by Stephanie Wruck | Oct 24, 2023 | Article, Emphasis, Events
Coletivo Amarelo at the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam
In November, Coletivo Amarelo will be present at the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam! This is the 17th edition of the fair in the city and the exhibition runs from the 1st to the 5th of November. The Affordable Art Fair features a number of Dutch and international galleries that will showcase thousands of contemporary and affordable works of art.
Affordable Art Fair
The first edition of the Affordable Art Fair took place in Battersea Park, in London, in October 1999. At first, the fair had an audience of 10 thousand people interested in buying art. These include original contemporary paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
After all these years, the Affordable Art Fair takes place in more than 10 cities around the world, including London, New York, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels, Singapore, Stockholm, Melbourne and Sydney, with two new fairs to open coming soon to Shanghai and Berlin.
In each of its editions, the fair welcomes thousands of art enthusiasts and provides a wide variety of art. They feature established and emerging artists in a mix of local, national and international galleries with affordable artwork.
The Affordable Art Fair is an opportunity to discover emerging artists and galleries at an affordable price. It encourages the democratization of art and its consumption.
Coletivo Amarelo and the Affordable Art Fair
This is the first year that Coletivo Amarelo will be part of the fair in the city of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. As a relatively new art gallery, this is an opportunity to take our artists to a place where our purpose converges into one: promoting art.
At the Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, we will exhibit a diverse collection while keeping inclusion and education at the forefront, with local and international artists. These will be transformative works that encompass photography, painting and sculptures.
Among the artists who will be exhibited at the fair are Jerusa Simone, Osias André, Natália Loyola, Eduardo Dias, Gabriela Albuquerque, among others!
The vernissage takes place on November 1st between 5pm and 10pm. For more information about fair times, visit the fair's website Affordable Art Fair!
by Stephanie Wruck | Oct 9, 2023 | Events
Within the vibrant colors and forceful expressions, we enter a universe where the imagined merges with the concrete, where fortuitous encounters draw landscapes of thought and emotion.
In the next Coletivo Amarelo exhibition, we give space to the multifaceted world of artist and actor Chico Diaz, whose art navigates the mysterious currents of an imaginary reality, painting the visible and the invisible with equal passion and curiosity.
Inspired by the viscerality of the “encounters” described by João Fiadeiro and Fernanda Eugénio, this exhibition invites us to explore “wounds” that arise from accidents, the unexpected, and that, in their subtle brutality and delicacy, expand the domains of the possible and the thinkable.
Such encounters, these unexpected confluences, form the core of Diaz's work, an artist whose practice unfolds in a constant dialogue between search and encounter, between perception and creation.
Chico Diaz, a painter since childhood and self-taught par excellence, intertwines dream narratives with the physics of emotions and reality. His work is not confined by formulas or rigid precepts, but flows, unpredictable and unsettling, always in search of new meanings, new paths, new “real-imaginary” that emerge from his own unconscious and the world around him.
Diaz not only illustrates, but shapes and constructs alternative realities through his art, inviting us to immerse ourselves in landscapes where the mystical and the earthly collide, where mysterious faces merge with allegorical and tropical horizons, building a visual vocabulary that oscillates between the dark and the happy, the light and the dazzled. This is a world where the dichotomy between the visible and the invisible dissolves, and each painting becomes a portal to other dimensions of perception and existence.
zxThe REAL IMAGINÁRIO exhibition is not only a demonstration of Diaz's skill as a painter, but also a celebration of his narrative ability, a deeper dive into the praxis of someone who, throughout his life, told stories, whether through acting or painting.
The substantial difference is that, on screen, his narratives break away from the constraints of the concrete and the logical, allowing a free flight between layers of meaning and expression, emerging both from within and from the world around him.
Let's go, then, between the days October 12th and November 10th, 2023, at the Casa da Cidadania da Língua, in Coimbra, exploring the recesses of a universe where the real and the imaginary coexist and cohabit, not as separate entities, but as integrated and essential aspects of the human experience.
In this space, in the company of selected works by Chico Diaz, we will be led through familiar and at the same time strangely new terrain, where each brushstroke, each figure, each color invites us to reflect, feel and, above all, find ourselves and lose ourselves. in the vastness of what is visible and invisible.
In the space where Chico Diaz's expressions will color our walls and perhaps, our perceptions, with the nuances of his “real-imaginaries”, we wait for your visit.
by Stephanie Wruck | Sep 18, 2023 | Events
Our third exhibition opens on September 23rd at 6pm in our space.
A solo exhibition by Gabriela Albuquerque, curated by Cristiana Tejo. The exhibition brings together Albuquerque's most recent series of works, entitled “Beach House”, along with other landscape paintings. This is the artist's first solo exhibition, and she will be accompanied by Chico Diaz, who will present some of her works in our project room: The smallest gallery in Lisbon.
Gabriela Albuquerque is a Brazilian artist, who works and lives in Cascais. His current research focuses on recurring landscapes and developments beyond the historical academic tradition of this genre. The almost compulsive repetition of images seeks to exalt the paradox between permanence and impermanence of our surroundings, of that which is familiar to us, but also ephemeral. The choice of oil paint as a support, which follows a centuries-old tradition, questions the continuity of certain practices that persist despite constant innovations. The paintings are more than just records of moments and places, they are also an attempt – perhaps frustrated – to make the ephemeral permanent.
Chico Diaz is a Mexican-Brazilian actor and visual artist currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Diaz spent most of his childhood traveling between Peru, Costa Rica and Paraguay. At age 14, Diaz began his acting career and has been active since the late 1970s, appearing in several Brazilian television series and films. In 2022, he won the best actor award at the Gramado Festival for the film “Noites Alienígenas”. The film was recently shown at the FESTIN Film Festival in Lisbon. Chico Diaz has been painting since childhood. His body of work carries expressive dichotomies, all found in dream narratives and landscapes that refer to the world of dreams. Ranging from spiritual symbolisms to Brazilian horizons, he is capable of engineering a contrasting vocabulary; often oscillating between dark figures and joyful images.
We hope to see you there!
by Stephanie Wruck | Sep 15, 2023 | Article
Last days to visit the 8th edition of Poster Mostra in Marvila
The 8th edition of Poster Mostra, which started on May 20th, is coming to an end! The open-air exhibition runs until September 20th. There were 4 months of art displayed in buildings throughout the streets of Marvila, a neighborhood that breathes culture in Lisbon.
Exhibition Poster – Open air art
Poster Mostra is a public exhibition on the streets of Marvila, one of the most active cultural centers in Lisbon. The initiative emerged as a tribute to one of the most classic forms of media, the poster.
The posters created include photography, drawing, words, illustration or mix media and, as in previous editions, a total of 17 winners were selected, based on originality, approach and applicability to the poster format.
In total, there are 37 artists, 20 guests and 17 winners, exhibiting their works on a circuit between Rua do Açúcar and Largo do Poço do Bispo.
With Poster Mostra, Marvila proves once again that it is a center rich in culture, transforming its streets into a true art gallery.
This is not the only artistic intervention present in the neighborhood, which has several art galleries, such as Underdogs, neighboring Coletivo Amarelo, and which recently had an exhibition by Shepard Fairey, a famous North American street artist.
Don't miss the opportunity to experience this artistic experience through the main streets of Marvila!
by Stephanie Wruck | Sep 8, 2023 | Article
The renowned Portuguese artist Helena Almeida is on display at the Moreira Salles Institute in São Paulo. Titled 'Inhabited photography, anthology by Helena Almeida, 1969-2018', this is the artist's first solo exhibition in Brazil. The exhibition is now open to the public and takes place at IMS Paulista until September 24th.
Helena Almeida: Who is the artist?
Helena Almeida was born in Lisbon in 1934, where she lived until her death in September 2018.
Her journey in art has spanned different formats, from drawing, painting, sculpture and performance. However, it was photography that the artist focused her work. At the end of the 1960s, Helena Almeida began what would mark the rest of her life as an artist, photography, which stood out for its originality and pioneering spirit.
The artist also experimented with the use of painting in her photographs, creating works that marked her career, such as “Pinturas Habitadas” (1975-1977) and “Dento de Mim” (2001).
The artist represented Portugal around the world, twice at the Venice Biennale, in 1982 and in 2005, at the São Paulo Biennale, in 1979 and 2004 at the Sydney Biennale. With this trajectory, Helena Almeida became one of the main Portuguese contemporary artists.
In recent years, her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions such as the one taking place at the Moreira Salles Institute in São Paulo.
Inhabited photography, anthology by Helena Almeida, 1969-2018
The exhibition Fotografia Habitada, an anthology by Helena Almeida, 1969-2018 will be the renowned Portuguese artist’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Curated by Isabel Carlos, curator of contemporary art and art historian, the exhibition will present a selection of works based on photography and drawing, created between 1969 and 2018.
The works address recurring themes in Almeida's production, such as the interrogation of genres and artistic processes and the self-representation of artists and women.
In its production, more than an artistic or documentary genre, photography is a conceptual support for the ideas and processes of creation. This subversion of the limits of the definitions of the work of art, in addition to the constant reiteration of her condition as a woman artist, brings Helena Almeida's work up to date, confirming the historical relevance of her role in a generation that opened new paths and processes in ways of thinking and articulate the relationship between art and life.
The exhibition runs until September 24th, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 10pm at Instituto Moreira Salles Paulista in São Paulo.
by Stephanie Wruck | Aug 24, 2023 | Article
Osias André and Ar.Co – Bolseiros & Finalistas'22
Ar.Co is an independent art school that was born in 1973 and annually holds an exhibition that brings together a selection of works by finalists and scholarship students of the school year. One of the artists from Coletivo Amarelo, Osias André, is among those selected and we can check out his works in the exhibition that runs until September 3rd!
Ar.Co – Scholarship holders & Finalists'22
The exhibition aimed at the works of students and scholarship holders at the school is called Ar.Co – Bolseiros & Finalistas'22 and displays the works carried out in the years 2021 and 2022. In all, there are 25 artists that encompass different artistic departments, including Visual Arts , Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Photography, Illustration and Jewellery.
According to the Executive Director of the exhibition, Manuel Castro Caldas, the annual show aims to promote the exhibitors' critical self-distance and their accountability vis-à-vis the wider fabric of society and history. As for the school, the exhibition makes it possible to assess the relevance and effectiveness of changes and updates to its pedagogy. And for visitors, the exhibition is an opportunity to experience the different arts, once considered “minor” and “major”.
For Ar.Co, and Coletivo Amarelo, this hierarchical distinction between different forms of art is something non-existent. With the exhibition, the public has the opportunity to absorb these different forms of art and understand that there is no greater or lesser weight.
Osias André and Ar.Co
Osias André, a Mozambican artist, is one of those selected for this year's exhibition. The artist has unique look and expressions in his art. His works feature black bodies in motion, almost always naked, and different pictorial elements that help express this movement, creating a kind of choreography on canvas.
The artist has already had his works exhibited in other editions of the exhibition, winning awards on other occasions.
In addition to the works exhibited at Ar.Co, it is possible to follow the work of Osias André in the exhibition Confluência do Coletivo Amarelo, which runs until the second half of September!
Ar.Co – Bolseiros & Finalistas'22 runs until September 3rd and is open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 1pm/2pm to 6pm!
by Stephanie Wruck | Aug 7, 2023 | Article
Barbie and the inspiration in the work of Wayne Thiebaud
One of the most anticipated films of recent years, the live action of the most famous doll in the world, Barbie, premiered less than a month ago and is a success with the public and at the box office. Since its announcement, the film has generated different expectations. After all, what to expect from a doll movie?
Directed by one of the most promising women in the business, Greta Gerwig, the film exceeded audience expectations and has already passed the US$ 1 billion mark at the box office, becoming the biggest film directed by a woman.
Whether discussing the role of the doll in society,mocking the patriarchy or talking about what it means to be a woman, the film is much more than the live action of a doll. And proof of that are the inspirations that the director and screenwriter used to create Barbielândia, the ideal world where Barbies live and command all sectors of society. One of these inspirations is the artist Wayne Thiebaud!
Who is Wayne Thiebaud?
Wayne Thiebaud is a renowned American artist, originally from Mesa, Arizona and one of the main names in Pop Art! The artist is known for his paintings of everyday objects and urban scenes, often exploring themes related to food, particularly desserts.
Thiebaud is world renowned for his
your brush strokethe striking and vibrant colors, which deliver a three-dimensional and almost sculptural quality to his works. Your approachThe unique act unites realism with a touch of humor and exaggeration, creating images with a close eye on ordinary objects.
One of her most iconic and well-known series is painting cakes, pies and ice cream, in which she explores textures and shapes in a detailed and engaging way. This series is one of the inspirations that Greta Gerwig used to develop the Barbieland setting.
Wayne Thiebaud and Barbie
Barbieland, the magical world where Barbies live, is a true fantasy. Full of pink, the scenario was all created and developed in a studio, without the help of technologies such as CGI, for example. For this, Greta and the production designer of the
film, Sarah Greenwood, used a pink pigment that led to a worldwide shortage of Rosco brand fluorescent paint. But what does that have to do with Wayne Thiebaud?
According to Greenwood,the pygmyA specific color was used to create about 12 different shades of pink, which were used throughout the film's setting. This is a direct result of director Gerwig's admiration for Thiebaud's work. Yet
according to the production designer, this comes from the work of Thiebaud, who never uses black and white in his paintings. In this case, their shadows were made with shades of blues and purples.
Barbie's color scheme followed this pattern, using no black, white or chrome tones to create the dolls' fantasy world, just different shades of pink.
the different shapesof art
The seventh art, better known as Cinema, has always used parallels with the different existing art forms. Whether in the representation of a plan inspired by a painting, in the lighting or in the colors. The arts overlap to create a new concept, a new art.
As much as Barbie is a worldwide blockbuster and the first contact may seem futile for many, the work developed by the film's Art Direction transcends the superficial, by focusing on details that enrich the production.
In addition to having a script that runs away from expectations, we can notice the attention to detail in the development of the main scenarios, clothes and even the hair of the main character, Stereotypical Barbie, played by Margot Robbie. This is because the wig used by the actress was daily toned with a toner developed especially for the film. The intention was to neutralize the yellowness of the blonde and avoid a great contrast between the costumes and the character's hair.
Finally, the attention to detail present in Art Direction only enriches Greta Gerwig's work and reinforces that art can present itself in different ways and feed back, inspiring new works and perspectives in the most different platforms and formats. Barbie is just another example of how art perpetuates itself and inspires new artists.
by Stephanie Wruck | Jun 29, 2023 | Events
Our second exhibition “COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENT: CONFLUÊNCIA” opens on July 8 at 6 pm in our space.
The exhibition brings together the work of three artists from different parts of the world in a unique meeting in Lisbon. Osias Andre from Mozambique, Gianlluca Carneiro from Brazil and Michael SaintClaire from the United States. They are different continents and contexts that carry a poetic accentuated by their similarities. Curated by Cristiana Tejo, the exhibition comprises a backdrop of vibrant colors and figurative representations of each geographic and personal perspective. Osias Andre and Gianlluca Carneiro share our main exhibition space, while Michael SaintClaire occupies “The Smallest Gallery in Lisbon” with paintings produced especially for the exhibition. The artists dialogue with each other, presenting paintings closely linked to their experiences and personal artistic universes.
Come have a toast with us, Saturday, July 8th, from 6 pm to 9 pm in Marvila.
osias andre
Gianlluca Carneiro
Michael Saint Claire
by Stephanie Wruck | Jun 15, 2023 | Article
I'd say my first encounters with zines only happened because of my deep admiration and enthusiasm for punk rock. Even though I wasn't alive to ever touch a copy of Maximum Rocknroll zine, or see in person the stunning cut-and-paste punk aesthetic of the very first edition of Search & Destroy, I've always been under the hypnotizing spell of independent printed publications. There's something special to be said about the energetic drive of zine makers to produce something mainly out of passion, anger or rebellion, without concerns to make any real money, but just to get it out of their systems.
When Coletivo Amarelo was born, there was a lot to be released. Artists had not only work to show but things to say. I knew we needed to find a way to tell those stories and the digital space wouldn't suffice all our needs. Perhaps it was an attempt to fit fine art under DIY guidelines and I was excited to see what would emerge from it.
Paper is a revolution in itself. As we move through the ever shifting corners of the internet, those cyber-territories are under constant construction. It all happens fast. It happens now. It's here then it's gone. Paper, on the other hand, has more time. It's a slower digestion. It invites intimacy. It forces you to stay longer.
This publication was born to be collectible, reusable, palpable. Each exhibition held at our gallery will have its own chapter. You're invited to collect every chapter, all while adding them to your copy of the brochure. It's a modular dance, a celebration of impeccable graphic design work, a collective effort made by a group of artists. It's a rebellious yet quite romantic commitment to the nostalgic and so seducing nature of printed materials.
Our brochure is now available on our website for purchase. During our exhibitions, we will distribute the next chapters, so make sure you have your copy of your brochure in order to collect each chapter.
Cheers! Until next time!
