'ABERTO3', featuring Carmen Herrera, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Anish Kapoor, São Paulo, Brazil

19 August 2024

The third edition of the ABERTO exhibition series is currently on view for the first time across two distinct locations simultaneously. A platform for traveling exhibitions, held in spaces outside of the traditional museum and gallery circuit, the initiative bridges the connections between art, architecture, and design, fostering a dialogue between Brazilian and international art in carefully selected spaces.

Among the works included are the wall-based Estructura sculpture Borealis (1966/2016) by Carmen Herrera, as well as one of her early paintings, The King in Jail (Prison du Roi) (1948). A large-scale 2022 mirrored work by Anish Kapoor also features, alongside Hiroshi Sugimoto's Opticks 588 (2018), from the artist's ongoing Opticks photographic series.

'ABERTO3' takes place across the homes and workplaces of two extraordinary Asian-Brazilian women, highlighting their remarkable Brutalist houses from the 1970s. The first was designed by Brazilian architect Ruy Ohtake for his mother, Tomie Ohtake, a renowned artist of Japanese origin; and the other, a family residence project by architect and designer Chu Ming Silveira, who was born in Shanghai.

At Ohtake's Studio-House in São Paulo's Campo Belo neighbourhood, ABERTO invited contemporary Brazilian artists to create works that reference Ruy Ohtake's architectural style, the environment, and the family's stories. At Silveira's residence in Parque Real, her youngest son Alan Chu celebrates his mother's legacy of innovation and creativity by presenting furniture of his own design, alongside a selection of Masters and pre-2000s art.

Find further information via ABERTO.