Sérgio Sister
The Sister Papers
November 18, 2023 – January 11, 2024
Born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1948, Sérgio Sister lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Sergio Sister's extensive career takes roots in abstraction and permutations of the ready-made. His work can be viewed in the continuity of American Minimalism, European Arte Povera and the Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement. The Caixas (or Caixinas) were born from the artist's fortuitous encounter with a pile of discarded fruit boxes in a corner of his garage, in 1996. The found objects became the precarious supports for an ongoing painting investigation into color, space and light. In 2009, as wooden crates were gradually being replaced in Brazil by plastic ones, Sister started to replicate the structures out of denser wood proceeding to alter their architecture, adding or removing painted and raw planks. The Caixas form a small ecosystem, in which the permutations of colors and shapes create endless visual possibilities. they embody the memories of the multicolored fruits they once housed.
Select exhibitions include: Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil (2020); Instituto Ling, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2019); Emmanuel Hervé, Paris (2016); Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba, Brazil (2013); Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2007); Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo (2006); Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2000); Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (1998); Fundação Nacional de Artes, Rio de Janeiro (1989); Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Sayago & Pardon Collection, Irvine, CA; Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Centro Cultural, São Paulo; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
