Exhibition Views
contemporary art gallery
Isa Toledo
Casa Commedia
26 JANUARY 24 - 16 MARCH 24
I'm using photography as a way to investigate and try to understand these seas. I attempted to make them more artificial and less natural.
Nuno Cera in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Photographic documentation
Among the one-person exhibitions we can single out: “Drawings”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation; “Body Building”, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon; “Rui Sanches, Retrospective”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation and “Museum”, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Some important group-exhibitions were: the 19th São Paulo Bienal; “PASTFUTURETENSE”, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery; “Tríptico”, Europália 91. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent; “From Silence to Light”, Watari-Um, Tóquio; “Abstract/Real”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Viena; “Dentro y Fuera” Cáceres and “Serralves 2009 – The Collection”, Museu de Serralves, Porto. During the 1980’s his work was based on the deconstruction of paintings and genres of painting.
Isa Toledo was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1990. She studied at Camberwell College of Arts - University of Arts London followed by a master’s degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Isa has also lived in Dubai and Berlin and is now based in Lisbon.
Isa’s video work has been shown at the Photopub festival in Slovenia, HVW8 Gallery in Berlin and in online exhibitions for Pousio - Arte e Cultura, for Transmissions TV as well as a solo digital video series for Smuggler. In 2015 she co-founded ButchCamp with graphic designer Rosen Eveleigh, a research project centred on contemporary camp aesthetics. Butchcamp interviews and articles have been published by Teen Vogue, Another Magazine, Dazed and Girls Like Us. In Portugal, her illustrations have been published by Electra Magazine and Sr. Teste.
Artist Bio
for Transmissions TV as well as a solo digital video series for Smuggler. In 2015 she co-founded ButchCamp with graphic designer Rosen Eveleigh, a research project centred on contemporary camp aesthetics. Butchcamp interviews and articles have been published by Teen Vogue, Another Magazine, Dazed and Girls Like Us. In Portugal, her illustrations have been published by Electra Magazine and Sr. Teste.
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
Isa Toledo was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1990. She studied at Camberwell College of Arts - University of Arts London followed by a master’s degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Isa has also lived in Dubai and Berlin and is now based in Lisbon.
Isa’s video work has been shown at the Photopub festival in Slovenia, HVW8 Gallery in Berlin and in online exhibitions for Pousio - Arte e Cultura,
Artist Bio
Isa Toledo was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1990. She studied at Camberwell College of Arts - University of Arts London followed by a master’s degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Isa has also lived in Dubai and Berlin and is now based in Lisbon.
Isa’s video work has been shown at the Photopub festival in Slovenia, HVW8 Gallery in Berlin and in online exhibitions for Pousio - Arte e Cultura, for Transmissions TV as well as a solo digital video series for Smuggler. In 2015 she co-founded ButchCamp with graphic designer Rosen Eveleigh, a research project centred on contemporary camp aesthetics. Butchcamp interviews and articles have been published by Teen Vogue, Another Magazine, Dazed and Girls Like Us. In Portugal, her illustrations have been published by Electra Magazine and Sr. Teste.
Artist Bio
"That is what a joke is after-all, it's a desire to charm. Comedy is very much about that. Then the oral side of it, both with the words that sound alike as with the 'Abba Iban, Uta', there's a kind of very delicious Dadaism there."
Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Artworks
Among the one-person exhibitions we can single out: “Drawings”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation; “Body Building”, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon; “Rui Sanches, Retrospective”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation and “Museum”, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Some important group-exhibitions were: the 19th São Paulo Bienal; “PASTFUTURETENSE”, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery; “Tríptico”, Europália 91. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent; “From Silence to Light”, Watari-Um, Tóquio; “Abstract/Real”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Viena; “Dentro y Fuera” Cáceres and “Serralves 2009 – The Collection”, Museu de Serralves, Porto. During the 1980’s his work was based on the deconstruction of paintings and genres of painting.
"I started to think a lot about what was downtown, where I live, which I used a lot to make presents for people, to give gifts. Above all, there were the stamps that are made in Franco, the engraving that is done on any type of metal, the embroidery that I do at home with threads from the haberdashery there. And then, for example, there was Casa da Bandeira, in other words, I wanted to use the crafts that still existed around me in the service of what the exhibition would be about. Then it ended up being a puzzle trying to put together the objects I wanted to make, the phrases that interested me, and the process that existed in the neighbourhood. (...)
When I saw 'What is home without a mother? (about Buster Keaton in the film The Scarecrow) I immediately thought 'Home without another', which gave birth to this whole table. This piece, 'We have to stay here', where the idea was to record, in essence, these Freudian slips, which are words that have the same sound but different meanings. Once in therapy, I was talking about time, and the feeling that there was never enough time. And she said 'There is still time'. And I said, 'Steal time?' Or 'Still time'? And actually, this whole table is 'Steel Time'. "
Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
When I saw 'What is home without a mother? (about Buster Keaton in the film The Scarecrow) I immediately thought 'Home without another', which gave birth to this whole table. This piece, 'We have to stay here', where the idea was to record, in essence, these Freudian slips, which are words that have the same sound but different meanings. Once in therapy, I was talking about time, and the feeling that there was never enough time. And she said 'There is still time'. And I said, 'Steal time?' Or 'Still time'? And actually, this whole table is 'Steel Time'. "
Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
"I started to think a lot about what was downtown, where I live, which I used a lot to make presents for people, to give gifts. Above all, there were the stamps that are made in Franco, the engraving that is done on any type of metal, the embroidery that I do at home with threads from the haberdashery there. And then, for example, there was Casa da Bandeira, in other words, I wanted to use the crafts that still existed around me in the service of what the exhibition would be about. Then it ended up being a puzzle trying to put together the objects I wanted to make, the phrases that interested me, and the process that existed in the neighbourhood. (...)
"I started to think a lot about what was downtown, where I live, which I used a lot to make presents for people, to give gifts. Above all, there were the stamps that are made in Franco, the engraving that is done on any type of metal, the embroidery that I do at home with threads from the haberdashery there. And then, for example, there was Casa da Bandeira, in other words, I wanted to use the crafts that still existed around me in the service of what the exhibition would be about. Then it ended up being a puzzle trying to put together the objects I wanted to make, the phrases that interested me, and the process that existed in the neighbourhood. (...)
When I saw 'What is home without a mother? (about Buster Keaton in the film The Scarecrow) I immediately thought 'Home without another', which gave birth to this whole table. This piece, 'We have to stay here', where the idea was to record, in essence, these Freudian slips, which are words that have the same sound but different meanings. Once in therapy, I was talking about time, and the feeling that there was never enough time. And she said 'There is still time'. And I said, 'Steal time?' Or 'Still time'? And actually, this whole table is 'Steel Time'. "
Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho