Marcela Cantuária
Cantuária refuses an identification with the official narrative and opts for a contrarian reading, pictorially instrumentalizing insurgent utopian images / monuments, integrated into the history of social exclusion, labor exploitation and environmental degradation.
– Aldones Nino, La Larga Noche de los 500 Años, 2019
Brazilian artist, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Marcela develops paintings that intertwine historical images from the universe of politics to representations of contemporary visual culture. Part of her pictorial inventions comes from research on the struggles waged by women around the world, such as the work Sônia, which pays homage to a riverside communist guerrilla woman killed by military agents in the Araguaia region, during Brazil's first military coup in 1964.
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SP-ARTE 2024
3 - 7 Mar 2024 São Paulo -
Ocultas Marés: Ana Silva & Marcela Cantuária
30 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 São PauloA Gentil Carioca is pleased to present Ocultas Marés: Ana Silva & Marcela Cantuária , the next exhibition at ours headquarters in São Paulo, curated by Raquel Barreto . The...Read more -
Forrobodó
9 Sep 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Rio de JaneiroA Gentil Carioca is pleased to present Forrobodó, a group exhibition that marks the 20th anniversary of the gallery and celebrates the political, poetic, aesthetic and erotic potential of the...Read more -
Bum-bum Paticumbum Prugurundum
7 Aug - 9 Oct 2021 São PauloAleta Valente, Ana Linnemann, Arjan Martins, Cabelo, Ernesto Neto, Jarbas Lopes, João Modé, José Bento, Laura Lima, Marcela Cantuária, Maria Laet, Maria Nepomuceno, Maxwell Alexandre, OPAVIVARÁ!, Renata Lucas, Rodrigo Torres,...Read more -
all power to the beach!
27 Nov - 6 Dec 2020 Rio de JaneiroAccess viewing roomRead more -
Encruzilhada Gentil
7 Oct - 31 Dec 2020 Rio de JaneiroAccess viewing roomRead more -
Marcela Cantuária | La Larga Noche de los 500 años
9 Nov - 20 Dec 2019 Rio de JaneiroIn her work, Marcela Cantuária appropriates images from different backgrounds, elaborating a counter-narrative, with the aim of highlighting the flourishing of another future. Her approach highlights symbols...Read more
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Marcela Cantuária | The South American Dream | Pérez Art Museum Miami
19 Apr 2023Marcela Cantuária: O Sonho Sulamericano A obra de Marcela Cantuária (n. 1991, Rio de Janeiro; mora no Rio de Janeiro) frequentemente retrata figuras femininas que...Read more -
Marcela Cantuária | Propostas de Reencantamento | Sesc Pompeia
27 Oct 2022Marcela Cantuária abre sua exposição individual Propostas de Reencantamento, no SESC Pompeia, em 29 de outubro de 2022. Para a mostra, a artista cria ambientes...Read more -
Prêmio Décio Noviello de Artes Visuais 2020 | Joyce Delfim e Marcela Cantuária
7 Jan 2021Na entrevista feita com a curadora Joyce Delfim e a artista Marcela Cantuária, elas nos contam um pouco de sua relação de amizade e trabalho,...Read more -
Quiz Gentil | Marcela Cantuária
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Pílula de Arte - Marcela Cantuária
21 Jan 2020A artista plástica Marcela Cantuária fala sobre o resgate da memória de combatentes políticas da América Latina em suas pinturasRead more
Brazilian artist, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Marcela develops paintings that intertwine historical images from the universe of politics to representations of contemporary visual culture. Part of her pictorial inventions comes from research on the struggles waged by women around the world, such as the work Sônia, which pays homage to a riverside communist guerrilla woman killed by military agents in the Araguaia region, during Brazil's first military coup in 1964. Cantuária elaborates confrontations narratives for a society structured in sexism and misogyny, thus creating her own vocabulary, whose particularities are cohesive with the creative process, the chromatic palette and the articulations that emerge from the open and latent layers of her paintings. Influences spread in a curious combination, the works are reconnections with social facts that have been repeatedly diminished, erased or badly treated by history, so her body of work seeks to dialogue with questions about the position of women in society, class struggle, division of powers, gender stereotypes and disputes over political meanings. Film frames, media and journalistic images, figurative miscellany of the unconscious and daily photographic records depict women's bodies, soldiers, burning landscapes, domestic animals and wild beasts integrate Marcela's canvases in an intercrossed and anachronistic plan, circular and confusing, like the contemporary image rotational system, typical of how virtual communication networks play mindsets.
She holds a BA in Painting from the School of Fine Arts at UFRJ. In March 2023 inaugurated her first solo exhibition in the USA, “The South American Dream”, at Pérez Art Museum Miami; and “Bestiário”, her first solo in Portugal. In 2022, she presented the solo shows “Propostas de Reencantamento” at SESC Pompeia, São Paulo and “invocación del pasado a la velocidad del ahora” at CentroCentro, Madrid. In 2021, “Esperança Equilibrista” at Caixa de Pandora, São Paulo and “Figure the impossible” at Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, in 2020. In 2022 she participated in the artistic residency at Fountaihead in Miami, and in 2023 will participate at the residencies L’AiR Arts in France and Bordallo Pinheiro in Portugal. In 2019, at the gallery A Gentil Carioca, she opened the solo show “La Larga Noche de los 500 años”, the same year she opened “Suturar, Libertar” at Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica and participated in the collective “Histórias Feministas”, at MASP and “Estratégias do Feminino” at Farol Santander in Porto Alegre. Her works are part of the collections of Museu da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro, and Museu de Arte de São Paulo.