Gomide&Co

About the Gallery
For over a decade, Gomide&Co has been present on the national and international art circuit, contributing to the production and insertion of primary and secondary market artists in public and private collections. In its program, while seeking to present works by renowned names in modern and contemporary art, the gallery also works to achieve other perspectives. In the midst these movements of distancing and approximation on diverse artistic productions, dialogues are created, enabling new conceptualizations and narratives.

About the Presentation
Gomide&Co will present a two-person exhibition of Julia Isidrez and Maria Lira Marques. Isidrez, whose work concurrently appears in the 60th Venice Biennale, learned ceramics from her mother, Juana Marta Rodas, following a centuries-old Indigenous tradition in Paraguay that dates to pre-Columbian times. Drawing on the techniques of her Guarani ancestors, Isidrez’s sculpted vessels transcend function with their expressive vocabulary of whimsical animal figures rooted in the Paraguayan Chaco. Based in Jequitinhonha Valley in southeastern Brazil, Marques also developed an early interest in working with clay from observing her mother making nativity scenes. Since the 1980s, she has focused her practice on the Meus Bichos do Sertão series, mineral pigment paintings of imaginary animals that inhabit the artist's inventive mind.