Lucas Simões

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Lucas Simões

The exploration of material as a form of expression in the work of Lucas Simões is not, as may appear at first sight, a fetish for materiality, but rather a research that aims to fill the support of the artistic object with meaning. His training as an architect, where technique and poetics are profoundly interlinked, gives one of the possible keys for understanding his production.

Painting, cartography, books, photography, concrete, steel, paper... have already been objects of his investigation. Through daily experimentation with materials and know-how, the artist finds the necessary means of expression, as in his more recent sculptures and installations in concrete, which reflect his research into brutalist architecture and the failure of its utopian sense.

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Lucas Simões

Lucas Simões [Catanduva, Brasil, 1980. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil], has a Bachelor in Architecture and Urbanism from PUC-Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. Selected solo exhibitions: OTIUMmuitoOTIUM, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil [2022]; Durmientes, Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain [2021]; Drawing Tense, Blouin Division, Montreal, Canada [2021]; Awaiting Masses, Patron Projects, New York, USA [2019]; Ressaca, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil [2018]; Corpos de Prova, Pasto Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina [2017]; White Lies, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, USA [2017] and Deserto, Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil [2014] among others. Selected group exhibitions: Panta Rei, Anna Mara, Roma, Italy [2021]; Theory of Prose, Arsenal Contemporary Art New York, New York, USA [2021]; Experimentando Le Corbusier – Interpretações Contemporâneas do Modernismo, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil [2019]; A Thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain [2017] and Mensagens de Uma Nova América, 10th Biennial of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil [2015] among others. Awards: Prêmio Foco Art Rio [2013]; Salão de pequenos formatos da Amazônia – UNAMA [2010] and Prêmio Citi Novos Artistas [2009]. Public collections: Museu de Arte Contemporânea - USP, São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Coleção Itaú de Fotografia Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil and Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.

 

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