Lucas Arruda

Lucas Arruda (born 1983, São Paulo), is a Brazilian painter living and working in São Paulo, Brazil.[1] He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Faculdade Santa Marcelina, São Paulo, Brazil in 2009. He was at the forefront of a generation of artists in Brazil who reclaimed painting in an art scene then largely dominated by conceptual art.[2][3] He is known for his atmospheric landscape paintings that exist at the border between abstraction and figuration, between mnemonic and imaginative registers. Characterized by their subtle rendition of light and a meditative quality, Arruda's landscapes are charged with visual as well as metaphysical questions.[1][4]

Work

Lucas Arruda's work and research develops fundamentally around landscape and light as well-defined themes within art historical canon in order to examine complex contemporary mental states.[1] His work is often displayed in series of small-format paintings grouped under the title "Deserto-Modelo", a term he borrowed from the Brazilian poet Joao Cabral de Melo Neto in order to emphasize the idea of prototype and repetition,[5] "allied to the metaphor of the desert understood as an atemporal place that can't be grasped through language".[2] Describing himself as "an artist that works with paint",[5] in his exhibitions, Arruda often extends the landscape beyond the painting by using light installations and slide projections,[6] achieving "a live experience that operates through the mediation of light and the gaze" as noted by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.[7]

While early reviews of Arruda's work tended to inscribe his paintings within the Romantic sublime tradition and referenced artists like Caspar David Friedrich and Edward Hopper,[8] Arruda himself, in citing influences, rather refers to J. M. W. Turner's late work, the Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón's landscape paintings and Giorgio Morandi, emphasizing the mathematical and metaphysical impulses in his work, and insists on "the idea of landscape as a structure, rather than a real place".[2][5]

Career

Lucas Arruda's solo exhibitions include Assum Preto, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Madrid (2023);[9] Lugar sem lugar, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2022);[10] Lugar sem lugar, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre (2021); Lucas Arruda, Pond Society, Shangai (2020); Deserto-Modelo, Fridericianum, Kassel (2019);[11] Lucas Arruda, Cahiers d'Art, Paris (2018);[12] Deserto-Modelo, Indipendenza, Rome (2016);[13] Deserto-Modelo, Lulu, México DF (2015); Deserto-Modelo, Pivô, São Paulo (2015).

His work has been included in institutional group shows such as Bonna, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka (2023);[14] Avant l'Orage, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris (2023);[15] Passages – Landscape, Figure and Abstraction, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2022);[16] Histórias Brasileiras, MASP, São Paulo (2022);[17] Seismic Movements, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka (2020); Aprendendo com Miguel Bakun: Subtropical, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2019);[18] Luogo e Segni, Punta della Dogana, Venice (2019); Volcano Extravaganza 2019 – DEATH, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli (2019);[19] City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Anozero – Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra, Coimbra (2017);[20] Soft Power. Arte Brasil, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2016).[21]

Arruda's work is featured in several publications such as Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (2019) by Phaidon Press,[22] Landscape Painting Now (2019) by D.A.P/ Distributed Art Publishers[23] and Hans Ulrich Obrist: Brazilian Interviews Vol. 2 (2021) by Cobogó.[24]

Publications
  • Lucas Arruda. Deserto-Modelo (2022, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, ISBN 978-3-7533-0252-2)[25]
  • Lucas Arruda: Deserto-Modelo (2020, David Zwirner Books, ISBN 9781644230411)[26]
  • Lucas Arruda (2018, Cahiers d'Art & Editora Cobogó, ISBN 9786556910314)

References
  1. "Mendes Wood DM | Lucas Arruda". Mendes Wood DM. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  2. CUTÒ, NGERIA RIGAMONTI di. "Lucas Arruda: 'The only reason to call my works landscapes is cultural'". www.studiointernational.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. Neuendorf, Henri (1 December 2014). "artnet Asks: Lucas Arruda". Artnet News. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  4. "Lucas Arruda - Biography". David Zwirner. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  5. "Lucas Arruda's imaginary landscapes". Numéro Magazine (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  6. Martí, Silas. "Mendes Wood DM". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  7. "Lucas Arruda "Assum Preto" by Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Madrid at Biblioteca del Ateneo de Madrid — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. 24 February 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  8. Johnson, Ken (23 June 2011). "LUCAS ARRUDA: 'Deserto-Modelo'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  9. Vicente, Álex (11 February 2023). "Lucas Arruda, la naturaleza como ficción". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  10. "Instituto Tomie Ohtake". www.institutotomieohtake.org.br. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  11. "Fridericianum | Lucas Arruda Deserto-Modelo". Fridericianum. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  12. "Cahiers d'Art | Artist Editions – By Artists – Lucas Arruda". www.cahiersdart.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  13. admin_indi (27 June 2020). "Deserto Modelo". INDIPENDENZA (in Italian). Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  14. "Dhaka Art Summit". Dhaka Art Summit. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  15. "" Avant l'Orage " | Bourse de Commerce". www.pinaultcollection.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  16. "[Translate to Französisch:] Fondation Beyeler | Künstler und Künstlerinnen". www.fondationbeyeler.ch (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  17. "MASP". MASP (in Portuguese). Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  18. "Instituto Tomie Ohtake". www.institutotomieohtake.org.br. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  19. "Volcano Extravaganza 2019 – DEATH | Fiorucci Art Trust". fiorucciartrust.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  20. "Lucas Arruda « Anozero 2017". 2017.anozero-bienaldecoimbra.pt. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  21. "Soft Power Arte Brasil". Soft Power Arte Brasil — Kunsthal KAdE. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  22. Tom Melick; Rebecca Morrill; Kathryn Rattee, eds. (2019). Vitamin P3 : new perspectives in painting. London. ISBN 0-7148-7995-9. OCLC 1099684819.
  23. Todd Bradway, ed. (2019). Landscape painting now : from pop abstraction to new romanticism. Barry Schwabsky, Robert R. Shane, Louise Sorensen, Susan A. Van Scoy. London. ISBN 0-500-23994-0. OCLC 1061817094.
  24. Obrist, Hans Ulrich (2018). Márcia Fortes; Isabel Diegues (eds.). Hans Ulrich Obrist : entrevistas brasileiras. Rio de Janeiro. ISBN 978-85-5591-067-8. OCLC 1120784290.
  25. "Lucas Arruda: Deserto-Modelo - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  26. Arruda, Lucas (2020). Lucas Arruda. David Zwirner, David Zwirner LTD. New York. ISBN 978-1-64423-041-1. OCLC 1198094017.
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