Brazil: Tempera Reimagined
The revival of tempera painting in the twentieth century was not unique to Brazil, but in no other country did it embed itself so deeply and essentially in its artistic culture. So abundant from the 1950s onwards, the pure, luminous colour and rhythmic brushwork of tempera painting has come to embody the palette and texture of Brazil at the moment of its arrival to modernity.
Cecilia Brunson Projects presents Brazil: Tempera Reimagined, a group exhibition dedicated to this painting discipline. Featuring works by Alfredo Volpi (1896 – 1988), currently spotlighted in the RA exhibition Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism; Ione Saldanha (1919 – 2001); Eleonore Koch (1926 – 2018) and André Ricardo (b. 1985), the exhibition follows the continuity and reinterpretation of this medium by new generations as they enter into a shared pictorial world.
Private view: 27 February, 6-8pm.
