Art Basel | Paris 2024

Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel’s is delighted to show a selection of works from our represented artists that weave organic and spontaneous dialogues between historical, established and emerging practices. Anderson Borba and Ernesto Neto combine the artifactual dimension of manual making with the biomorphic lines and contours of bodies, while Erika Verzutti’s sculptures and Tadáskía’s drawings harbor abstract forms that convey a sense of animation and liveliness even in repose. Rivane Neuenschwander’s piece, composed of disparate creaturely elements, enacts the mutant fusion of animals and fabric, while Luiz Zerbini and Pélagie Gbaguidi’s paintings combine earthly matter with transcendent, oneiric images. Forming another facet of these dreamscapes, Frank Walter’s synthetic, cartographic landscapes, Janaina Tschäpe’s atmospheric, meteorological paintings and Leda Catunda’s textile object-paintings are archives of metamorphosis, where lines, fields and contours dissolve into an ongoing flow of transitive, composite properties. Wanda Pimentel’s historical painting from the Envolvimento series joins angular architectural geometries with sensual fragments of female silhouettes, while Valeska Soares’ cut-out portraits leave women’s gazes staring hauntingly at the viewer. The neon sculptures of Cerith Wyn Evans, and Rodrigo Cass’ concrete paintings on linen trace pathways and itineraries in space, in paradoxical static movement. Antonio Tarsis, whose assemblages iterate both a sense of construction and ruin, establishes partial rhymes with Mauro Restiffe’s photograph, which instantiates an ambiguous time zone, between an archaeology of architecture and a contemporary image of spatial organization.