RESPIRA
Claudia Melli
Opening : Thursday February 13th , 2025
Exhibition : February 13 – March 7, 2025
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Claudia MELLI
Respira
Exhibition : 13 February – 10 March, 2025
Opening : Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Claudia Melli’s pictorial practice, founded on delicacy and enigma, reveals her fascination with the discreet events underpinning our world.
For her second Parisian solo exhibition, Respira, the Brazilian artist unveils a series of softly strange, untrodden landscapes on paper: underwater landscapes, inspired by the ocean depths off her beloved Costa Verde. These works draw our gaze, forcing it into this universe ruled by a gentle, oneiric harmony, and lead us into dense, aquamarine-and-emerald atmospheres inhabited by fantastical plants, whose long, translucent filaments seem to dance slowly to the sound of some inner music – a melody that will echo intimately within the heart of each visitor. For Claudia Melli listens to the world: seeking to catalogue its essential elements, she approaches this peaceful undersea universe with the utmost care and concentration, and returns with good news. Beauty exists. In our world in such dire need of it. Contrasting our hurried and destructive present, her meditative illustrations reveal an entire imaginary universe bathed in silence, inviting contemplation. With this new set of works, Melli teaches us that the practice of calm may well be the fundamental secret to perceiving the intimate link.
Claudia Melli was born in 1966 in São Paulo, Brazil. She lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
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Claudia MELLI
Born in 1966 in São Paulo, Brasil.
Lives and works de Janeiro, Brasil.
COLLECTIONS
Gilberto Chateaubriand, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
José Olympio Pereira
Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, São Paulo, Brasil
Coleção Banco Espírito Santo
Carlos Jereissati
Brazil Golden Art Investimentos
Artur Lescher
Heitor Martins
Coleção do Itamaraty
Luiz Paulo Montenegro
Cleusa Garfinkel
Soraya Milan
EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES – sélection
2025 Respira, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Paris, France
2024 Nós também somos do mato, Galerie Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo, Brasil
2023 Todo estado de alma é upa paisagem, Galerie Virginie Louvet, Paris, France
2021 Respira, Galerie Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo, Brasil
2019 Revoada, Galerie Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil
2018 Sternea Paradisaea, Galerie Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo, Brasil
2016 Lugares onde nunca estive Galerie Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo, Brasil
2015 E aqueles que foram vistos dançando…, Galerie Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Lugares onde nunca estive, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2012 Série Azul, Fondation Walter Wüthrich, Bâle, Switzerland
2011 Entre o Perto e o Distante, Galerie HAP, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2010 Tudo da vida é um país estrangeiro, Galerie Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo, Brasil
2008 Série Azul, Galeria Penteado, Campinas, Brasil
ONDE, Durex Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2005 Série verde, Instituto Arte Clara, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
GROUP SHOWS – selectio
2024 Gokelaere Robinson – 10th Anniversary, Knokke le Zoute, Belgium
2023 XXV, Galeria Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2022 13ème Biennale du Mercosur, commissariat Marcello Dantas
Alegria aqui é mato, Casa Roberto Marinho, commissariat Lauro Cavalcante
2019 O Lugar que nos observa, Galeria Eduardo Fernandes, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Traços Contemporâneos, commissariat Nancy Betts, Picta, Joinvile, Brasil
2013 Coletiva, Centro Cultural Parque das Ruínas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Estética ou poética?, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brasil
2012 Novas aquisições, Collection Gilberto Chateaubriand, MAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2011 Acervo, Galeria HAP, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
3 Atos, 3 Artistas, Galeria Eduardo Fernandes , São Paulo, Brasil
Abril, Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2006 Universidarte XIV, Casa França Brasil, commissariat Marcio Doctors
Art Off the Main, Puck Building, New York , USA
Novíssimos, Galeria de Arte do IBEU, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2005 A Cara do Rio, Centro Cultural dos Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2004 Exposição do Acervo, Galeria Lana Botelho, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2003 Campo Transcendental, Galeria de Arte da UFF, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Exposição do Acervo, Galeria A. Kunsthandel, Oslo, Norway
PUBLICATION
2020 L’Officiel Brasil, Em constante mutação, par Patrícia Favalle
FORMATION
1990s EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
