Sergio Romagnolo: Special Effects: OPEN COLLECTION

The exhibition Sergio Romagnolo: Special Effects features around 20 works created by the artist, from 1983 until today, including unpublished works. The set brings together paintings, watercolors, sculptures and a relief, which clarify Sergio Romagnolo's involvement with the visualities of comics, cartoons, American television series of the 1960s and advertising. The “special effect” of the title refers to the overlapping of different images or frames of the same film, produced by the artist in some of his paintings, which result in oscillating, tremulous figurations, with a virtual vibration. The effect streamlines the representations that appear in the works, while truncating, distorting and blocking the narrative nature of the scenes. Editing ends up making the episodes light, synthetic, in a single act. A bit like what happens with the paintings of candles, flowers and packaging for morning products, present in the exhibition, which do not represent only flowers, candles or packaging, but also the finitude and ephemeral, fleeting nature of these elements – which, like everything else, more that is figured here, they get agitated, break up and end.

Sergio Romagnolo: Special Effects continues the cycle Open Collection, by Galeria Marília Razuk, started in June last year. The exhibitions in the series bring together, each time, a set of works made in different periods of the trajectory of an artist represented by the gallery, in its space at number 62, Jerônimo da Veiga Street.. The objective of these selections is to highlight specific aspects of the production of these artists and, at the same time, favor comprehensive views of the respective works. So far, the cycle has featured exhibitions by Debora Bolzsoni and Maria Laet.