Brazilian design exhibition Aberto is internet hosting its fifth version in Casa Bola, architect Eduardo Longo’s globular self-built Nineteen Seventies São Paulo residence.
Aberto/05 is the fifth iteration of the platform’s artwork and design present, which has been staged in a variety of modernist buildings, together with Le Corbusier’s Maison La Roche in Paris.
This yr, the exhibition options installations, sculpture and portray by 50 creatives housed inside the 1979 Casa Bola, which demonstrated Longo‘s utopian architectural imaginative and prescient for an city neighborhood, the place residents would stay in pods suspended above the road.
The constructing stands out on São Paulo’s bustling Faria Lima for its spherical ferrocement facade, positioned above three flooring of separate gallery-style subterranean areas that also function Longo’s residence and workplace in the present day. A bright-yellow slide snakes across the sphere as an alternative choice to the winding staircase.
Among the many items is a placing aluminium curtain by Spanish artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, positioned on the entrance of one of many flooring.
Characterised by a playfully cut-out coated-steel body, the curtain was considered one of many works created particularly for Casa Bola.
“The items developed for the exhibition set up a direct dialogue not solely with the spherical type of the home, but in addition with its materiality, its lightness of tone and the sense of humour that’s so attribute of Eduardo’s structure,” Aberto founder and curator Filipe Assis advised Dezeen.
Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto painted two works for the house, which Assis described as completely complementary to Casa Bola’s “spaceship vibes”, whereas German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschape additionally produced a large-scale mural for the exhibition.
Whereas a lot of the items are displayed under the constructing’s spherical quantity, works are additionally on present on this area.
Multimedia work by artists Laís Amaral, Paloma Bosquê, and Tatiana Chalhoub had been hung to “have interaction within the constructing’s curves and angles”.
“These works, amongst others, reveal how the artists engaged thoughtfully with each the bodily and symbolic dimensions of Casa Bola, creating items that really feel intrinsically related to its id,” mentioned Assis.
Apart from final yr’s present at Maison La Roche, the primary three editions of Aberto had been held at different Brazilian architectural landmarks, together with Oscar Niemeyer‘s Casa Oscar – the architect’s solely residential mission in São Paulo.
“Having explored a number of landmarks of modernist structure, I felt it was the perfect second to innovate as soon as once more and to current the singular, disruptive universe of Eduardo Longo,” mirrored Assis. “He is an architect I take into account a real genius.”
Aberto/05 is the primary of the Aberto exhibits the place the curatorial group and the collaborating designers had the chance to work with a residing architect, which Assis mentioned proved “invaluable”.
“It has allowed us to delve far deeper into the conceptual foundations of the constructing, to listen to first-hand accounts of its creation, and to know the intentions behind every determination,” he mentioned.
São Paulo options many examples of Brazilian modernism, with architects working adaptively with the constructions.
Final yr, Brazilian design observe Estúdio BRA reconfigured an house within the metropolis’s Niemeyer-designed Copan constructing to profit from its iconic facade.
The pictures is by Ruy Teixeira.
Aberto/05 takes place from 7 March to 31 Could 2026 at Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 2889, Itaim Bibi, São Paulo, 01452-000, Brazil. See Dezeen Occasions Information for an up-to-date record of structure and design occasions going down around the globe.
