JORGE BASTOS/PRIVATE COLLECTION, SÃO PAULO
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “Afro-Atlantic Histories” is on view at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo in Brazil through Sunday, October 21. The exhibition, which continues at São Paulo’s Instituto Tomie Ohtake, brings together more than 400 works that deal with the movement of African peoples over the past six centuries.
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Dalton Paula, Zeferina, 2018, oil on canvas.
PAULO REZENDE/COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST, GOIÂNIA, BRAZIL
Sonia Gomes, Memória (Memory), 2004, thread, knots, textile, lace, varied fragments.
EDUARDO ORTEGA/COURTESY MENDES WOOD DM, SÃO PAULO
Jaime Colson, Merengue, 1937, oil on canvas.
MARIANO HERNANDEZ/MUSEO BELLAPART, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Carlos Vergara, Sem título, da série Carnaval (Untitled, from the series Carnival), 1972, methacrylate.
JORGE BASTOS/PRIVATE COLLECTION, SÃO PAULO
Théodore Géricault, Study of a Model, ca. 1818–19, oil on canvas.
J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES
Uche Okeke, Nigeria, 1961, oil on board.
FRANKO KHOURY/NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C., GIFT OF JOANNE B. EICHER AND CYNTHIA, CAROLYN NGOZI, AND DIANA EICHER
Benny Andrews, Study for Portrait of Oppression (Homage of Black South Africans), 1985, oil on canvas with painted textile and paper collage.
COURTESY MICHAEL ROSENFELD GALLERY, NEW YORK
Jaime Lauriano, Pedras portuguesas #1 (Portuguese Stones #1), 2017, Portuguese stones, iron box, cement.
FILIPE BERNDT/COURTESY GALERIA LEME, SÃO PAULO
Rosana Paulino, A permanência das estruturas (The Permanence of Structures), 2017, digital print on textile, cutout, sewing.
PRIVATE COLLECTION, SÃO, PAULO
Faith Ringgold, Subway Graffiti n.2, 1987, acrylic on canvas with pieced, dyed and painted textile.
PHOTO: BENJAMIN WESTOBY, COURTESY PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, LONDON/COURTESY ACA GALLERIES, NEW YORK, AND PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, LONDON/COLLECTION CHARLOTTE WAGNER
Mallica “Kapo” Reynold, Gene, 1970, oil on hardboard.
FRANZ MARZOUCA/COLLECTION OF LARRY WIRTH, NATIONAL GALLERY OF KINGSTON, JAMAICA
Barrington Watson, Conversation, 1981, oil on canvas.
FRANZ MARZOUCA/NATIONAL GALLERY OF JAMAICA, KINGSTON
Installation view of "Afro-Atlantic Histories," 2018, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
EDUARGO ORTEGA
Installation view of "Afro-Atlantic Histories," 2018, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
EDUARGO ORTEGA
Installation view of "Afro-Atlantic Histories," 2018, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
EDUARGO ORTEGA
Installation view of "Afro-Atlantic Histories," 2018, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo.
EDUARGO ORTEGA