“Dropper”

Iran do Espírito Santo graduated in fine arts from the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) in 1986. His work consists of drawings, mural paintings, installations and sculptures.

His work operates in the gap between form and content (between materialization and idea) with the creation of virtual spaces and objects that anticipate their artificiality only at the moment when the observer tries to understand them, building traps for the gaze and perception. In this process, puns on size, reduced or increased, perspective and materiality lead the works to deceptive sensory and visual effects, which from the beginning was an obsessive subject of his poetics.

Iran ends up relating a work of complex and detailed thought with the banality of familiar spaces and objects that are the reason for his optical tricks.

The artist has participated in the Venice Biennale (48th and 52nd editions); the São Paulo International Biennale (19th and 28th editions); the 6th Istanbul Biennale; "Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and "Troposphere" at the Beijing Minsheng Art Museum. He has held solo exhibitions at the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (Rome, Italy), the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland). In 2013, he exhibited a work commissioned by the Public Art Fund in Central Park in New York, USA.

It is present in the collections of institutions such as the Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil; the Assis Chateaubriand Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo, Brazil; the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP), São Paulo, Brazil; the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; the Reina Sofía Museum Foundation, Madrid, Spain; the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England; the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland; the Latin American Museum of Buenos Aires (Malba), Buenos Aires, Argentina; the National Museum of the XXI Century (MAXXI), Rome, Italy; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, ​​Spain; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation (TBA21), Vienna, Austria, among others.