Raul Mourão | Alban Galeria

O menor carnaval do mundo and other reductions by Raul Mourão

Clarissa Diniz

The passionate uproar of a carnival that took place in 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, has ignited this exhibition. However, the impact of the few and intense days on Raul Mourão's affective memory has not encouraged him to turn this exhibition into a space-time of nostalgia. Being the sculptor that he is, the carnival experience shared with a small group of friends, at home and almost clandestinely, captivated him by confirming – through friendship, solidarity and passion – one of the aesthetic-political principles of his work: reduction as power.

Open to balance

Frederico Coelho

Since 2010 Raul Mourão has been working with kinetic sculptures. His research on materials and movements brought a new aesthetic route to his work.

Raul Mourão, the gentle art of evading

Paulo Herkenhoff

A heterogeneous collection of Raul Mourão’s works binds the glance with irony. Mourão operates with a subtraction of the rule and gentle forms of his transgression. The artist destabilizes. Everything will be object of irony, from power to fear. Each work seems to want to act as a device for the practice of this wickedness.

From iron to fondness

Felipe Scovino

The first time I had contact with the series Balanços by Raul Mourão was last year, in September during the rehearsals of the Intrépida Trupe for the spectacle Projeto: Coleções (Project: Collections). Mourão was beginning to try the first works of this series (which despite relating them as study or experience of successions, as if each sculpture was a project or a scheme for something “better” or bigger, understood that precisely this challenging, inconstant and molecular character of the sculpture as transitory form has allowed the artist an investigative milestone of high power for his work) specially with the dancers of the Company as laboratory.

Animal Traction

Luiz Camillo Osorio

Animal Traction presents the collection of Raul Mourão’s recent works. Sculpture has always been his craft, but the images and the street pushed the sculptural and the concern with volume and severity to the fluency of life.