Edgard De Souza
One of the most important Brazilian artists of his generation, Edgard de Souza's sculptures, objects, photographs, drawings, and paintings raise issues related to the body and its representation. In his formative years, the artist studied with Nelson Leimer, which contributed to his approach of conceptual art in 1980s. Questions of human physicality fuel the artist's production, resulting in organic self-portraits where you can observe body parts, secretions, hair, skin. For example, Untitled (action figure) is a bronze sculpture in which we see a mangled body, with its parts displaced and relocated elsewhere. In De Souza’s sculptures the presence of the common body is sculpted in bronze or wood–both pictorial and transfigurative. clumsy Mesa simulates a wooden table with deer-like legs that can walk away at any time and cause a disaster. Communicating vessels and M-1 are works made with cowhide, drawing attention to the corporeal qualities of leather.
De Souza has had solo exhibitions at Galeria Luisa Strin in São Paulo, LA Louver Gallery in Los Angeles, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Pampulha Art Museum in Belo Horizonte, and Centro Cultural São Paulo. He has participated in group exhibitions at MASC - Art Museum of Santa Catarina in …
One of the most important Brazilian artists of his generation, Edgard de Souza's sculptures, objects, photographs, drawings, and paintings raise issues related to the body and its representation. In his formative years, the artist studied with Nelson Leimer, which contributed to his approach of conceptual art in 1980s. Questions of human physicality fuel the artist's production, resulting in organic self-portraits where you can observe body parts, secretions, hair, skin. For example, Untitled (action figure) is a bronze sculpture in which we see a mangled body, with its parts displaced and relocated elsewhere. In De Souza’s sculptures the presence of the common body is sculpted in bronze or wood–both pictorial and transfigurative. clumsy Mesa simulates a wooden table with deer-like legs that can walk away at any time and cause a disaster. Communicating vessels and M-1 are works made with cowhide, drawing attention to the corporeal qualities of leather.
De Souza has had solo exhibitions at Galeria Luisa Strin in São Paulo, LA Louver Gallery in Los Angeles, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Pampulha Art Museum in Belo Horizonte, and Centro Cultural São Paulo. He has participated in group exhibitions at MASC - Art Museum of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil, Rupertinum in Salzburg, Galleria D'Arte Moderna in Bologna, Itaú Cultural in São Paulo, Brazil and XXIV Bienal de São Paulo.
Courtesy of Carbono Galeria
