Anthony Reynolds and Georgia Fleury Reynolds Present New Exhibition by Lucia Nogueira

Anthony Reynolds and Georgia Fleury Reynolds are thrilled to be able to share the news that a major exhibition of sculptures and installations by Lucia Nogueira will take place at the São Paulo Bienal in September this year. This will be the first time these works have been seen in the country of her birth.

Lucia Nogueira is one of three artists - the other two are the Guatemalan Anibal Lopez and Ignacio Cinturion from Paraguay - who have been selected for posthumous tributes, representing important aspects of the art of the 1990s, a transformational moment for Latin America. "This was the first Latin American generation to create art free from the oppression of totalitarian regimes of the previous decades," explains Pérez-Barreiro. Artists of this generation no longer had to make works that were codified or hidden from censorship, and instead place greater emphasis on the expression of subjectivity as a deeply political act.

According to Pérez-Barreiro, the tribute to these three artists, with around 30 to 40 works highlighting their careers, was a way of rethinking the Bienal de São Paulo's historical nuclei, which were a characteristic feature of the Bienal up to its 26th edition (2004). "I wanted artists that were historical, but not necessarily famous, in other words, that these nuclei were not just a reiteration of names we are already familiar with. The artists honored are not well known in Latin America, but they are important exponents of their generation, so bringing them to the Bienal is a way of rescuing them from disappearing from the history of art, and showing them to new generations," says Pérez-Barreiro. For the curator, these exhibitions also make a significant contribution to the Fundação Bienal in terms of research, cataloging and recovering the production of these artists.

Perez-Barreiro writes: "Still relatively unknown in Brazil, Lucia Nogueira (Goiânia, Brazil, 1950 - London, United Kingdom, 1998) is an essential figure to understand British art of the period, and achieved international recognition in her short life. Her sculptures and installations subvert the utilitarianism of objects with subtle humor, associations between elements, and wordplays in their titles, creating an atmosphere that is both disquieting and poetic."

Many major pieces from public and private collections and from the artist's estate are being loaned to the Bienal where Nogueira's works will occupy a sequence of specially designed spaces totalling some 500sqm. Coming as it does exactly 20 years after her untimely death, the exhibition will provide a wonderful opportunity for her compatriots and a broader international audience to appreciate the special significance of her extraordinary work. A dedicated publication, with a text by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, will accompany the exhibition .

33rd Bienal de São Paulo - Affective Affinities
7 September - 9 December, 2018
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park