José Rufino: Dogma

Rufino (b. 1965, Brazil) occupies all of Central’s exhibition spaces with his new show, which marks his 30 years of artistic production. In the artist’s works, evolutionary theories, mythologies, social-politic ideologies, esthetical movements and artistic manifests are mixed to religious symbols and psychoanalytic quotes, as if all was parte of his private museum of references.

For the show, he presents works connected to political, philosophical and artistic ideals that have been around the artist throughout his life. Aristotle, Lenin, Stalin, Malevich, Rorschach, Darwin, Sartre, Gorbachev, Duchamp and Beuys appear as direct quotes in his monotypes, paintings, objects and sculptures. For instance, a painting that replicates Malevich‘s black square displays very subtly, in its dark field, the hammer and sickle.