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Ricardo de Oliveira: As The Years Went On… (Woman’s Eye)

Curated by CLEA RSKY

9 Mar. – 5 May 2024

As The Years Went On... (Woman's Eye), 2023, installed at KinoSaito’s outdoor exhibition space, originates from a larger collection of black and white photographs taken by Ricardo de Oliveira, all featuring fragmented and cropped details, taken from the movie posters that line New York City subway stations. This series was compiled and realized as an artist book (As the years went on…), which is available to view and purchase in KinoSaito’s gift shop.

As The Years Went On… echoes the Romantic Brazilian Fotonovelas of the 1960s and 70s -- a long forgotten popular genre format, known for urban narratives of passion, suspense, and greed. Featuring ambitious girls and handsome villains, the fotonovelas were easy entertainment reading, the perfect working-class palliative to help evade the harsh political days that hovered the country through the two decades.

About Ricardo de Oliveira
Ricardo de Oliveira is a Brazilian-born artist living and working in New York. His work has been shown in various New York galleries such as Nicole Klagsbrun, Tanya Bonakdar, American Fine Arts, Pat Hearn Gallery, and Sara Meltzer, as well as in Europe at Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Galerie Air-de-Paris, Paris, and Galerie Phillipe Rizzo, Paris.

In 1995, the artist took part in Campo at the Arsenale, an exhibit curated by Francesco Bonami, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Venice Biennale. Traveling through the Landsmuseum, Innsbruck, Malmoe Konstmuseum, Malmoe, and Fondazione Sandretto Re-Rebaudengo, Turin. His work has also been featured at the Wiener Secession, Vienne, and at Le Magasin-Centre de Art Contemporarie, Grenoble.

Reviews and feature articles have been published in Art in America, Art Forum, Art News, Flash Art, and Camera Austria.