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In focus: Maria Nepomuceno

Órbita cabeça nua exemplifies Maria Nepomuceno’s techniques of beading, weaving, straw braiding, and incorporating playful ceramic forms. The spiral motif reflects the form’s ubiquity in nature while evoking the perpetual flow of time and energy. Each of the artist’s works can be seen as a small ecosystem whose parts integrate and disintegrate in an infinite cycle.

On view in the group exhibition Wild Metaphysics | Artists: Thiago Barbalho, Maria Nepomuceno, Mariana Rocha, Guga Szabzon, Marina Woisky, Michel Zózimo | Curator: Sylvia Monasterios

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Featured artwork: Maria Nepomuceno, Órbita cabeça nua, 2026, beads, ceramics, pigment and braided straw, 127 x 80 x 36 cm; courtesy of the artist and A Gentil Carioca

📷 Alexandru Paul

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Vlad Nancǎ’s work I don't know what Union I want to belong to anymore (2003) is currently on view at the IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

The landmark exhibition Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989–2026) draws parallels between Ireland’s political history with those of European counterparts that have had similar trajectories in transitioning from post-conflict into democratic states of peace and stability.

Nancă’s work, made in the context of Romania’s post-socialist transition, reflects on the way different systems of power, belief, and aspiration overlap within the same social reality.

The exhibition is on view through 9 May 2027.

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📷 Installation view from Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989–2026), Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2026–2027. Photo: Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of IMMA

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In focus: Thiago Barbalho

For the group exhibition Wild Metaphysics, Barbalho conceived of an installation that spans across an entire gallery wall. An in-situ drawing consisting of small shapes akin to small poems envelops four works on canvas and is complemented by three-dimensional elements: four fingers, made of paper and resin with pencil shavings, that position the entire installation as an intricately constructed image system.

Come by the gallery to take a close look!

On view through October 24 | Artists: Thiago Barbalho, Maria Nepomuceno, Mariana Rocha, Guga Szabzon, Marina Woisky, Michel Zózimo | Curator: Sylvia Monasterios

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Featured artworks, from left: Thiago Barbalho, Solenoid, 2026, oil paint, acrylic paint, crystal resin, colored pencil, permanent marker and graphite on canvas; Wounded Beast, 2026, oil paint, acrylic paint, crystal resin, colored pencil, permanent marker and graphite on canvas; Magnetic Cradle, 2026, oil paint, acrylic paint, crystal resin, colored pencil, permanent marker and graphite on canvas; Floating In*******se, 2026, oil paint, acrylic paint, watercolor, crystal resin, colored pencil, graphite and permanent marker on canvas, 40 x 30 cm each; courtesy of the artist and Nara Roesler

📷 Alexandru Paul

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This Friday, October 2, we’ll be open till midnight on the occasion of Noaptea Albă a Galeriilor - NAG / White Night of the Art Galleries 2026.

🔜 Our schedule for NAG:
Friday, October 2: 6:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Saturday, October 3: 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Plan a visit to discover Wild Metaphysics, a group exhibition bringing together six Brazilian artists whose works speak of the transformative potential of imagination.

Artists: Thiago Barbalho, Maria Nepomuceno, Mariana Rocha, Guga Szabzon, Marina Woisky, Michel Zózimo

Curator: Sylvia Monasterios

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📷 Claudiu Obreja

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Art meets literature: because Wild Metaphysics is permeated by literature, drawing from magical realism and fantastic fiction, we’re asking the artists and the curator of the exhibition to reveal one book they always recommend to friends.

THIAGO BARBALHO, artist

Pick: ‘The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman’ by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert

“This book directs the foundations of philosophy and writing toward a transformative and reparative path. The Indigenous Yanomami cosmology is recounted here in the voice of their people’s own shaman, who also tells of his journey in contact with non-Indigenous society (the ‘people of merchandise’) and its violent stupidities. It is a transcription of Davi Kopenawa’s oral accounts, for whom the very notion of a book holds no interest except as a colossal diplomatic effort to be heard by the West.” — Thiago Barbalho

🗓 Wild Metaphysics is on view through October 24.

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Portrait photo: Claudiu Obreja

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In the spotlight: Gaep’s cofounder Andrei Breahnă sat down with Filtru Cultural București to talk about cultural entrepreneurship, tastemaking, the gallery’s activity over the past 12 years, and its current location, seen in the historical context of Floreasca.

📍This Saturday, October 3, 11:00 am, a guided tour of the Floreasca neighborhood organized by Filtru Cultural will start at Gaep, with a walkthrough of the exhibition Wild Metaphysics.

🔗 Read the story written by Raluca Bujor at the link in comments.

Illustration: Maria Mălcică for Filtru Cultural

Meet us through Sunday at The Armory Show in New York to explore our solo presentation of Razvan Anton.

The works on view reveal glimpses of landscapes, scenes, bodies, and faces – the ‘ordinary business of living’ (Siegfried Kracauer) presented without any explicit link to specific people or places.

📍 Booth P53
Javits Center
Saturday, September 26, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm�Sunday, September 27, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

How the exhibition Wild Metaphysics came into being: from Andrei Breahnă’s research trip to São Paulo and Sylvia Monasterios’s curatorial process of bringing together six Brazilian artists whose works explore the boundary between reality and imagination, to the site-specific wall drawing that Thiago Barbalho made after reading Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid and the digital images that inspire Marina Woisky to create tactile objects.

For RFI Romania, Mihaela Dedeoglu walked through the exhibition together with Gaep’s cofounder, the curator and two of the artists to uncover the stories behind it.

🔗 Listen in full at the link in comments.

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📷 Alexandru Paul

Making our debut at The Armory Show today with a spotlight on Razvan Anton. The artist’s new body of work is based on his long-term engagement with archival images and a distinctive heliographic process that situates his practice at the intersection of drawing and photography.

📌 Find us at booth P53.
Javits Center, New York
VIP Preview: 24 September
General Admission: 25–27 September

Roberta Curcă’s work Menstrual Pavement (2015) is part of the exhibition Images of History, Histories of Images, now on view at MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă, in Bucharest.

Curated by Ruxandra Demetrescu, the exhibition traces one hundred years of Romanian art – from the historical avant-garde and post-War experiments in abstraction to contemporary painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and video. “History alters images, but images also alter the way we can see history. The trajectory of the exhibition lies between these two movements.” – excerpt from the curatorial text

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📷 Alexandru Paul, courtesy of the artist and MARe