For its first participation in Este Arte, Millan presents a selection of Túlio Pinto’s recent sculptures. Building on the debates initiated by minimalism and Brazilian constructive art, Pinto engages with the concepts of harmony, balance, and ephemerality in a unique way.

The works in the Cumplicidade series, created with steel bars and blown glass, are organized into precise arrangements of balance, exercising an interplay of forces that sustain themselves autonomously. These pieces challenge assumptions and oppositions between frailty and resistance, lightness and weight, acting as catalysts for reflections on ephemerality and transformation.

According to architect and curator Guilherme Wisnik¹, “Túlio Pinto blends something of Fred Sandback’s constructivist and surrealist lightness with the empty, anodyne volumes of Sol LeWitt, forging his own path between abstraction and figuration, pendulating in the air as if it were a seesaw of stones.”

These operations, understood by the artist as a “performance of materials,” result in a precise organization of the components that make up the works — considering the properties and antagonisms of the materials, which allow the pieces to remain static.

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1. Critical essay by Guilherme Wisnik, Ballasts and tensions. Deformation and receptivity, Millan, 2022