Marcos Brêtas

Installed at MAM Rio’s foyer, the exhibition Marcos Brêtas presents works in oil on canvas and oil on paper by the artist that, living in Paris since 1990, has not exhibited in Brazil since 1998.

According to MAM’s curator Luiz Camillo Osorio, the main aim of this exhibition is to recontextualize his work in the Brazilian art scene after the artist left the country in the 1990s. After studying at Parque Lage in the 1980s, his painting demonstrated a very personal tone with a strong influence of German neo-expressionism and the painting of Giacometti and Dubuffet. Since then, Brêtas has taken his commitment to an expressionist poetic ever further. The artists developed an intimate, introspective and dense aesthetics, which is distant from the constructivist temperament of most Brazilian contemporary art, and indirectly draws him closer to Iberê Camargo – who’s also currently having an exhibition at the museum.