“The five new sacred balms”
The five new sacred balms
(SKU. 14094)
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Date
2024 -
Technique
bronze -
Dimensions
(H x W) five 10 x 39 x 0.5 cm plates -
Edition
10 + 3PA -
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"Writing in matter from the center of the Earth knowing that it will last longer than myself. Repeating the five new sacred balms as if bowing to the ethereal with the heart higher than the head. Treating love as an urgency. Asking for help in the face of mystery. Keeping the sky in the middle of the chest. Delimiting the borders of delirium. Whispering about time."
Ivan Grilo
In this work, Ivan Grilo presents a series of bronze plaques that function as messages engraved in time, carrying a spiritual and reflective force. These balms, although silent, whisper universal truths, resonating as a call to full consciousness and the rescue of a more sensitive time.
Biography
Ivan Grilo
What Ivan Grilo handles are collections and photographs. He is a "scrap collector of stories", investigating every little piece. All of this comes from a restlessness, from a natural curiosity. When he was little, Ivan wanted to be a carpenter, he would dismantle everything.
In 2016, he participated in the group show "The Color of Brazil" at the Rio Art Museum. That same year, he won the FOCO Bradesco ArtRio Award with the work "Second Study for the Bay of an Entire Sea", which is based on part of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro, with the arrival of slaves at the Valongo pier, and the popular story of Chico Rei with the origin of congada. Non-linear narrative, where stories intersect, and the appropriation of other people's photos are recurring themes in Ivan's work. In 2015, he exhibited the solo show "I Want to See" at Casa Triângulo, and in 2014, he exhibited the solo show "When the Sky Falls" at the São Paulo Cultural Center, in addition to participating in the group shows: "New Acquisitions" from the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP), and "Pororoca, the Amazon" at the Rio Art Museum (MAR). In 2013, he exhibited "Study to Measure Forces" at Casa França-Brasil, as part of the "Cofre Project"; in addition to being awarded a prize in the PROAC Visual Arts program, from the Government of the State of São Paulo. And in 2012, he received the Funarte Marc Ferrez Photography Award.
Among his most recent solo exhibitions are "We Feel Blind", at Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporânea, "Almost/Collection", at the Museu da República, "Nobody", at Paço das Artes, "This is all I need to remember", at SESC Campinas and "When the sky falls", at CCSP, curated by Bernardo Mosqueira. Among the most important recent group exhibitions are the "MASP Pirelli Photography Biennial" in São Paulo, "Chão da Praça" at the Pinacoteca Contemporânea (2023), the "3rd Beijing Photography Biennial" (2023), the "2nd Ural Biennial of Contemporary Art" in Russia, the "16th Cerveira Biennial" in Portugal, the "1st Clay Biennial" in Caruaru, the "11th Recôncavo Biennial" in São Félix and "Arte Pará" at the Pará State Historical Museum. Ivan Grilo has also been featured in international group exhibitions, including "Resonances: Brazilian Contemporary Art" at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (2024) and "Intersections of Time" at the Dakar Biennale (2024).
His works are in the collections of the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, the Rio Art Museum, the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art/Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, and the Cerveira Biennial Foundation, among others. Representative Galleries Zipper Galeria, São Paulo.
Representative galleries
Zipper Gallery, Sao PauloDestaques da carreira
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"Novas Aquisições da Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand" | 2014 | MAM, São Paulo, SP
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"Quando cai o céu" | 2014 | Centro Cultural São Paulo, SP
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“Amanhã, logo à primeira luz” | 2019 | Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, SP | foto: Filipe Berndt
