Taipei Dangdai
Kutlesa is pleased to participate in the sixth edition of Taipei Dangdai with a solo presentation by Alexandre Wagner. The sixth edition of Taipei Dangdai, presented by UBS, will take place at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, from 9 – 11 May 2025 (VIP Preview 8 May).
The paintings of Alexandre Wagner pulse with a kind of charged disorientation—spaces that unravel as you look, as though pulled from the edges of a fading dream or the architecture of an imagined, unreachable world. Corrupião Vermelho, a striking new work debuting at Taipei Dangdai, captures this sensation with hypnotic intensity.
The scene is engulfed in a fog of ambiguity. Structures flicker in and out of recognition—suggesting stone, water, sky—but never settling into certainty. Instead, at the heart of the composition, a glowing circular form acts like a magnetic core, drawing the eye inward even as the rest of the painting seems to drift, ripple, and dissolve around it in a cascade of aqueous brushstrokes.
Nothing settles in Corrupião Vermelho—it is a space to fall into. It conjures a landscape without ever fully becoming one, hovering in that fertile, electric zone between figuration and abstraction. In Wagner's world, clarity is a trap and vagueness is a language—one that speaks not of what is seen, but how it feels to look, to remember, to imagine.
His works are part of important private and institutional collections, such as MAM – Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de S. Paulo, IFF – Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, and MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro.
