Gomide&Co

About the Gallery
For over a decade, Gomide&Co has been present on the national and international art circuit, contributing to the production and insertion of primary and secondary market artists in public and private collections. In its program, while seeking to present works by renowned names in modern and contemporary art, the gallery also works to achieve other perspectives. In the midst these movements of distancing and approximation on diverse artistic productions, dialogues are created, enabling new conceptualizations and narratives.

Interweaving different generations and approaches, Gomide&Co represents both established artists and recent artists who are consolidating their institutional and commercial careers. Among them are Lenora de Barros, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcelo Cipis, Maria Lira Marques, Tiago Mestre, Francisco Brennand, León Ferrari, and Mira Schendel. In the secondary market, artists such as Joseph Beuys, Martin Kippenberger, Antoni Tàpies, and Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato have been shown in anthological exhibitions, reflecting the gallery's curatorial concern for bringing together historic and fundamental works for the understanding and appreciation of their practices.

From the beginning, Gomide&Co believes in the collaboration with galleries and institutions. In these exchanges, the gallery's presence has expanded to new places, in addition to its participation in major art fairs and biennials. At the new address on Avenida Paulista, opened in 2023, Gomide&Co continues its commitment to fostering the art scene through dialogue and plurality.

About the Presentation
Gomide&Co will present work by Akinori Nakatani, Chen Kong Fang, Ismael Nery, Kazuya Sakai, Manabu Mabe, Massao Okinaka , Megumi Yuasa, Shoko Suzuki, and Tomie Ohtake in a group presentation at Independent 20th Century. This presentation explores Asian diasporic narratives in Latin America through the lens of “transit, ” understood both as a subject and as an artistic strategy. Bringing together Akinori Nakatani (Japan, 1945 – Brazil, 2023), Chen Kong Fang (China, 1931 – Brazil, 2012), Ismael Nery (Brazil, 1900 – Brazil, 1934), Kazuya Sakai (Argentina, 1927 – United States, 2001), Manabu Mabe (Japan, 1924 – Brazil, 1997), Massao Okinaka (Japan, 1913 – Brazil, 2000), Megumi Yuasa (Brazil, 1938– ), Shoko Suzuki (Japan, 1929– ), and Tomie Ohtake (Japan, 1913 – Brazil, 2015), it highlights how East Asian cultural references and migration histories shaped artistic languages across painting, sculpture, and ceramics. By foregrounding exchanges between East Asian traditions and Latin American modernisms, a distinctive diasporic “accent” within postwar abstraction and its contemporary unfoldings in the region is revealed. At a moment of renewed attention to global narratives and displacement, it reconsiders diaspora as a collective and generative force in the construction of art histories.