Exercicio de me ver – Hudinilson Jr.

Galerie Eric Mouchet is pleased to present Exercicio de me ver, an exhibition of the Brazilian artist Hudinilson Jr. from to8 June to 23 July 2017 in collaboration with GALERIA JAQUELINE MARTINS in São Paolo.

Hudinilson Jr’s work appeared in Brasil in the late 70s in a context that had been greatly marked by the practices of conceptual art – or “Global Conceptualism” as it should be called, since the eponymous exhibition organised at the Queens Museum of Art, New York, in 1999. In his book on conceptual art in Latin America. artist and theoretician Luis Camnitzer, and one of the co-curators of this event, wrote about the “ideological” inflexion of this part of conceptual art which until then had been scarcely viewed and analysed in front of the hegemony of English and American movements. Part of Hudinilson Jr’s work can be connected to this “post-conceptual” trend, particularly his collaborative work within the group called 3nos3 (associated with Mario Ramiro and Rafael França). Known for their artistic practice in public spaces – a few photographic testimonies are now used to document an ephemeral and furtive body of work – the group favours micro-interventions in the territory of megacities, in the manner of illegal installations of plastic bags on top of public buildings and official statues – an allusion to the silence forced on the vox populi but also, in an equally explicit manner, to the torture techniques used during sessions of police interrogations.

Galerie Eric Mouchet is pleased to present Exercicio de me ver, an exhibition of the Brazilian artist Hudinilson Jr. from to8 June to 23 July 2017 in collaboration with GALERIA JAQUELINE MARTINS in São Paolo.

Hudinilson Jr’s work appeared in Brasil in the late 70s in a context that had been greatly marked by the practices of conceptual art – or “Global Conceptualism” as it should be called, since the eponymous exhibition organised at the Queens Museum of Art, New York, in 1999. In his book on conceptual art in Latin America. artist and theoretician Luis Camnitzer, and one of the co-curators of this event, wrote about the “ideological” inflexion of this part of conceptual art which until then had been scarcely viewed and analysed in front of the hegemony of English and American movements. Part of Hudinilson Jr’s work can be connected to this “post-conceptual” trend, particularly his collaborative work within the group called 3nos3 (associated with Mario Ramiro and Rafael França). Known for their artistic practice in public spaces – a few photographic testimonies are now used to document an ephemeral and furtive body of work – the group favours micro-interventions in the territory of megacities, in the manner of illegal installations of plastic bags on top of public buildings and official statues – an allusion to the silence forced on the vox populi but also, in an equally explicit manner, to the torture techniques used during sessions of police interrogations.