Maldita Comédia

Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel presents Maldita Comédia, a solo show by Tiago Carneiro da Cunha at Galpão in São Paulo. The artist’s first show at the gallery since 2019 features five large-scale paintings that transport the public into his universe of images, inhabited by fantastic creatures, relationships and colors. The subject of these paintings deals with cosmic battles between forces of nature and hybrid, monstrous beings. Carneiro da Cunha organizes the action of his compositions at the edges, leaving the center open to the free circulation of nebulae, light beams and energy vortexes. The thick oil paint impasto in which the artist renders his forms carries a sense of accumulated matter and manual making that recalls sculpture, fundamental in the artist’s practice since the beginning of his career.