FRANCISCO HURTZ

Brazil, São Paulo, 1985. Lives and works in São Paulo. Through the use of lines and empty space in the pictorial surface the artist decontextualizes images and rearranges them in his research. His work approaches collecting images, passing by the Queer Theory and the relations between bodies in space. There is a new man to be discovered in these bodies-territories. A blank space to be explored, questioned and in a constant state of change, ready to be materialized in designs that are almost sculptures. Men who become objects of study, relating to their bodies without artifice, put to the test in the empty space to be observed. The male is mounted, is completed and part - the individual and collective passes, with the possibility of a contemporary masculine. Fragility and lightness facing the strength and the breaking weight standards. A lyrical and raw picture. Empty bodies are filled with complex meanings, delimited by thin strokes about to break and integrate fully the environment. Be accepted and become invisible. Among the bodies arise dream spaces that suppress the environment and expose even more distance - or not distance- relations. Hurtz has participated in exhibitions at Carreau du Temple in Paris, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d'Aix-en-Provence in 2005. Shows 10 +20, Room of Wonders and other by Emma Thomas Gallery; The Relationship Between Bodies and Spaces I, Anti-Bodies his solo exhibitions at Mezanino Gallery in 2011 and 2013; LOCKER-ROOM, his solo show at Cultural Epicenter in 2014; Reflected Mirror - Surrealism and Brazilian Contemporary Art in Hélio Oiticica Arts Centre in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and several other shows and international publications. Francisco Hurtz is part of Gilberto Chateubriand’s art collection at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro since 2013. franciscohurtz@gmail.com Instagram: @franciscohurtz #FranciscoHurtz