Waldemar Cordeiro, 'Mulher que Não é B.B.', 1971. Digital print. Featured at the booth of Luciana Brito Galeria at The Armory Show 2014, NY.Waldemar Cordeiro artwork at the booth of Luciana Brito Galeria at the Armory Show 2014, NYA selection of works by Waldemar Cordeiro show here with Carlos Motta's Rio dining chair and Isay Weinfeld's IW dining table.Ricardo Basbaum artwork at the booth of Luciana Brito Galeria at the Armory Show 2014, NYRicardo Basbaum artwork at the booth of Luciana Brito Galeria at the Armory Show 2014, NYDetail of wooden sculpture by Artur Lescher with two works by Raul Mourão exhibitied at the booth of Nara Roesler GaleriaWaldemar Cordeiro color photographs with a 1970's vintage CIMO armchair at the booth Luciana Brito Galeria at the Amory Show 2014, NY.Wall work by Vik Muniz shown here along Sergio Rodrigues Mac side tables and Carlos Motta's Rio dining chairsAbraham Palatnik, Relevo Progressivo, 1988, featured at the booth of Nara Roesler Galeria at The Armory Show, 2014, NY.Waldemar Cordeiro, Sem Título, 1952.Waldemar Cordeiro, 'Cor-Relação', 1961. Oil on canvas. Featured at the booth of Luciana Brito Galeria at The Armory Show 2014, NY.Waldemar Cordeiro, Vista do Parque Infantil do Clube Esperia, 1963
As the Armory Show opened their annual art fair in NY this week, the participating Brazilian galleries flaunted a range of works evident of the ever-growing Brazilian art market and scene. São Paulo’s Luciana Brito Galeria united two disparate figures in the Brazilian art scope – the wonderfully innovative and rarely seen works of Brazilian multi-disciplinary and quintessential modernist Waldemar Cordeiro (1925 – 1973) paired with works of contemporary conceptual artist Ricardo Basbaum. Across the hall, Galeria Nara Roesler exhibited a selection of multi-generational Brazilian artists – Vik Muniz, Lucia Koch, Raul Mourão and a mesmerizing wall piece by Abraham Palatnik. ESPASSO provided the furnishings for both booths, further contextualizing the contemporary and modern link represented in the artworks within Brazilian design. While Roesler’s booth paired Carlos Motta‘s lively Rio dining chair, designed in 2011, with Ricardo Fasanello’s 1970’s Ciranda and Sergio Rodrigues‘ 1988 Mac side tables, the booth of Luciana Brito Galeria also featured Motta’s Rio dining chair along Isay Weinfeld‘s IW dining table from 2006, vintage 1970’s CIMO armchairs and the re-edition of Gregori Warchavchic’s beautiful Revisteiro side table, originally designed in 1930.
