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Gustavo Nazareno
Bará
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães MAMAM
Recife, BR
2024
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Gustavo Nazareno
Bará
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães MAMAM
Recife, BR
2024
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Gustavo Nazareno
Bará
Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo
São Paulo, BR
Ph. Estúdio em obra © Courtesy GUSN Studio
2023
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Gustavo Nazareno
Bará
Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo
São Paulo, BR
Ph. Estúdio em obra © Courtesy GUSN Studio
2023
Gustavo Nazareno (*1994) was raised in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and is now living and practicing in São Paulo.
Working across oil paintings and charcoals on paper, Nazareno sets off on a spiritual and visual exploration of the Orishas, deities venerated by the syncretic Brazilian Umbanda cult and other religions of the African diaspora related to the Yoruba, who found their way to most of the world as an emanation of the Atlantic slave trade.
Hybrid forces, ancestral spirits and mythological negotiators between human and divine world – prophets of wisdom and incarnation of historical legacies –, in Nazareno’s poetic universe the Orishas are glorious figures of a poignant pantheon where African traditions, Brazilian rituals, Spiritism and Catholicism coalesce.
Through the enigmatic light-and-shadow play and the depiction of divine entities and landscape alike as allegorical, universal manifestation of beauty, Nazareno ponders on the heterogenous attributes of identity and on the nebulous contours of our earthly experience as he confronts the persistence of colonialist narration.
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Star of a Hero
Gustavo Nazareno 6 Jun - 19 Jul 2024Setting the artist latest body of work against the imposing architecture of the upper floor of the gallery, the exhibition freely references the homonymous painting made in 1936 by Nicholas...Read more -
Gustavo Nazareno. Notas pessoais de fé
curated by Deri Andrade 15 Mar - 30 Apr 2022Presenting a new body of oil paintings and charcoals on paper, Nazareno expands on his spiritual and visual exploration of the Orishas, deities venerated by the syncretic Brazilian Umbanda cult...Read more