ArPa 2023
For Arpa 2023, Galeria Leme presents works by Gabriel Giucci and Rodrigo Bivar. Both artists use painting as their means of presenting their vision of the world. While Giucci is inspired by landscape photographs he takes during his long walks through the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Bivar brings a figurative intimacy to painting by recreating everyday images, with people in situations of leisure and rest. The artists place themselves as observers of the world, Bivar’s figures, usually with their backs turned, contemplating the horizon or interacting with their surroundings, while Giucci’s landscapes deal with a specific moment that induce a state of contemplation. Both artists address the mundane, little moments that would go unnoticed by distracted and preoccupied eyes. With sensitivity and detailed observation, Giucci and Bivar try to capture everything that we no longer have time to pay attention to see.
