Manuel Solano

João Mourão and Luís Silva

Pivô, São Paulo

Pivô

An installation view of a large gallery with white oblong columns and windows across the back wall. A turquoise rug covers half of the room and in the foreground is a metal railing with slim vertical support bars. Three white curving chaise lounge chairs face away from the windows.

An installation view of a gallery. The room is long, almost a wide corridor and appears to belong to a curved building. On our left, a curved wall of windows face another building. On our right, the interior wall has works hung too far to be seen in the image. Three white chaise lounge chairs sit midway down the gallery. In the foreground, the floor of the gallery has been painted turquoise ending with a diagonal white line and brown concrete. On our left, in the turquoise area, a free standing wall of glass bricks angles towards the end of the gallery space. On our right, a large oblong column has a white spiral work which emanates light.

An installation view of a gallery. The floor on our right is painted turquoise. The color runs up the far wall and provides the background for two paintings. A white line runs along the edge of the turquoise section of floor and up the wall. The uncovered floor in the remainder of the gallery is brown stone or concrete. A white spiral wall work hangs on an oblong, white column in the center of the gallery. Three white lounge chairs sit on the floor to our left and wall works hang in the distance on both walls.

An installation view of a gallery bisected with a turquoise painted floor and wall. A white stripe runs along the edge of the turquoise, up the wall and blends with the white ceiling. In the center of the room is a white, oblong column. A white line circles the column at its base over the turquoise floor. On the column is hung a spiral wall work emanating light. To our right the wall of the gallery is painted turquoise about a quarter of the way up the wall, with a white stripe demarcating the edge. Behind the column, two large paintings of interior architecture are hung against a turquoise section of wall.

An installation view of a white, curved interior wall of the gallery. Florescent lights snake along the ceiling and the floor is concrete. On our right, the gallery wall has a convex curve and a large unframed painting flexibly follows the curve of the wall. The painting depicts a large, spacious interior department store. Huge rectangular columns are scattered among glass cases with colorful wares. In the back of the space two escalators rise out of sight. The painting is bisected horizontally and the bottom half shows this interior while the whole upper half is a stylized rendering of a yellow and orange sky with white birds flying before a black sun or moon. This upper half seems to be a mural above the store. Other paintings hang further along the gallery wall. To the left is a large painting of three white lounge chairs and a pool.

An installation view of a gallery with a concrete floor, white walls and florescent tubes along the ceiling. Two paintings hang on the wall. On our left is a vertical painting of a plaza. Five sky scrapers sit on a raised white platform surrounded by a street and billboards. One building is red, one is blue, two are white and one is yellow. The painting on our right is larger and horizontally oriented. In the foreground is a deep stripe of choppy blue pool water. Then a stripe of white concrete with three white chaise lounge chairs. Behind the concrete is a stripe of deep green grass.

An angled installation view of a gallery with a concrete floor and white walls and ceiling. On our left a rectangular column supports the ceiling. On the back wall hang three large paintings. The first on our left is a pool scene, the next shows a group of buildings and the third down the wall looks like a diamond shaped glass brick window with planters.

An installation view of a gallery showing three large paintings. The first painting to our left is half out of the frame but in what can be a seen, a child plays in a pool. The next painting depicts a woman facing away from the viewer. She is looking at a painting above a small table. The next painting is also a fragment, because it curves along the wall out of our sight. What can be seen depicts a large department store. Three white chaise lounge chairs sit on the concrete floor towards the end of the gallery with a wall of windows behind.

An installation view of a gallery with concrete floors, white walls and florescent lights along the ceiling. Paintings are hung on the walls at the back and in the foreground is a large sculpture partly cut off by the photograph. The sculpture is purple and yellow. A few purple stairs rise to what looks like a platform and part of an triangular pyramid.

An installation view of a gallery with a concrete floor and round white columns along our left side. The back wall has two paintings, one of a diamond shaped window and the next, on our right, of a pool. In the center of the image is a sculpture. A set of purple stairs leads to a platform and a purple wall with part of a pyramid.

An installation view of a gallery. In the foreground is a pink or tan rounded cylinder or pedestal like sculpture. In the background a large painting is hung on the wall depicting an interior space. In the center of the image is a diamond shaped window of glass bricks set into a light grey wall. Two, yellow, cylindrical planters sit on other side of the window on a gray floor. A small section of tiled ceiling is visible above.

A close up of a painting depicting an interior grey wall with a diamond shaped window of glass bricks. On either side of the window are two, yellow cylindrical planters with mother in law's tongue, or some other spiky, dark green plant. The planters sit on a grey floor and above the window is a section of gridded ceiling, either styrofoam tiles or lights of some kind. The painting appears to be un stretched canvas with a rough edge. The texture of the paint is slightly rough with visible strokes of paint.

An installation view of a curved gallery wall and concrete floor. Three paintings hang on the back wall. The first on our left shows a child in a pool, the second depicts a woman standing with her back to us, the third shows a huge department store and wraps along the curving gallery wall. To our right an area painted with turquoise is almost out of sight.

A close up of a huge painting of a department store. The painting has been photographed on a flat wall, rather than the curved wall where it was installed, in order to be photographed more clearly. The painting is bisected horizontally. The bottom half shows an open, bright department store with columns, glass cases and escalators. An ornate striped floor is in the foreground. The top half of the paintings shows a stylized mural of an orange and yellow sky with white birds flying before a black sun. A strip of gridded ceiling can be seen at the top of the painting. The texture of the paint is rough and the edges of the un stretched canvas are slightly uneven.

A detail of the last painting showing part of the mural. It looks like the mural had been originally tile, since there is the suggestion of a grid underlying the design. The detail shows how roughly and thickly the paint is applied.

Another close up from the last painting depicting a department store and a huge tiled mural overhead. The close up shows part of the mural. The suggestion of tiles is rendered with shadow and the application of a faint grid throughout. The stylized head of a white bird fills the right side of the close up, against a swoosh of maroon and orange and black. The paint is applied thickly.

A large, horizontally oriented painting of a pool. In the foreground is a strip of choppy blue water. Next comes a strip of white concrete with three white lounge chairs. The last third of the painting is dark green grass. The paint is applied roughly and thickly.

A large un stretched canvas hangs on a white gallery wall. The painting is vertically oriented depicting a round interior courtyard of a multilevel building. The perspective of the painting looks down at a circular fountain and white tile floor from three or four stories up. Next to the fountain are two low walls making alcoves for tables and yellow umbrellas. Two floors are visible above the courtyard level. Curved beige walls have glass railings and a hallway that probably leads to interior rooms or stores. On our right is a yellow and white tiled stack which might be part of an elevator.

A large un framed painting on a white gallery wall. The painting depicts the interior courtyard of a round building. This is the same building as the last painting but seen from a different angle. Now we look from below up to a domed glass ceiling with triangular sections of window. A rectangular elevator shaft rises up two stories and ends just below the ceiling. Each story is made of curved beige walls and glass railings. The paint is applied roughly and thickly.

A close up of a large vertically oriented painting showing a cluster of sky scrapers. Each of the five buildings is a different height. They are grouped irregularly like a cluster of crystals on a white plate. The first building is red, two are white, one is dark blue and the shortest building is yellow. The buildings sit on a raised white platform, which might float over a parking area. A street with colorful billboards curves behind. The sky is pale blue above the buildings.

Manuel SolanoHeliplazaPivô, São Paulo

Exhibition Images

Manuel SolanoHeliplaza
Pivô, São Paulo