Victor Arruda and Carroll Dunham: a conversation between Rio de Janeiro and New York

Opening tomorrow, saturday, July 13th, 11am, the exhibition “Examining Myself and Others: Victor Arruda and Carroll Dunham” brings together paintings and drawings by Brazilian Victor Arruda and North American Carroll Dunham. 

Arruda and Dunham came of age in very different 1970s, as curator Dan Nadel has pointed out. Whilst Arruda critiqued the bourgeoisie in the 1970s and 1980s in Rio de Janeiro while the country was under a military dictatorship, Dunham was immersed in the conceptual art world of New York, trying to find a personal and procedural language. Both were liberated through looking at art, and sometimes ostensibly illicit material. The artists converge in the way they drew avidly on what they saw in museums and marginalized cultural spaces, such as graffiti on the streets and graphic novels. 

The exhibition “Examining Myself and Others: Victor Arruda and Carroll Dunham” is curated by Dan Nadel, general curator of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles.   

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“Examining Myself and Others: Victor Arruda and Carroll Dunham” 
Curated by: Dan Nadel 
Opening: July 13, from 11am to 4pm 
Almeida & Dale 
Rua Caconde, 152 - Jd. Paulista, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
Content Rating: PG-18