The Filomena Gallery presents Delírios Solares, a solo exhibition by Gabriela Melzer, curated by Marc Pottier and organized by Galatea Gallery. The São Paulo–born artist unveils eight paintings and six new drawings in which she transforms the sun into gesture, color, and vital energy. Opening to the public on September 4, the show invites visitors into a universe where light, matter, and imagination intertwine.
Inspired by figures such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Hilma af Klint, Hieronymus Bosch, and Leda Catunda, Melzer creates work that rejects fixed formulas and embraces aesthetic freedom. For her, chance is not accident but a mirror of the cosmos itself: the origin of planets, the birth of stars, the emergence of life. Within this fertile space between chaos and order, the artist recreates tensions that slip beyond control and reveal themselves in colors, forms, and vibrations.
The sun, chosen as the central symbol, does not appear as a mere star or source of heat, but as a mutating organism—predictable and unstable, cyclical and unexpected. This energy courses through the physicality of oil painting, a practice Melzer has developed for over a decade, where gesture and matter become body and vital necessity. Her canvases invite a pause, establishing territories of contemplation in contrast to the accelerated pace of contemporary life.
The drawings, in turn, unfold as cartographies of a larger universe, spontaneous fragments that probe chromatic and gestural variations in their raw state. Here, the artist approaches the tradition of lyrical abstraction, exploring dense contours and organic forms that evoke a dance between calculation and impulse. In this transit, delirium arises as a suspension of control, an open space where the unexpected may emerge.
Delírios Solares opens a field of sensations where the physical and non-physical converge, revealing a subjective dimension of the sun that is at once intimate and cosmic. As curator Marc Pottier notes, Gabriela Melzer’s works sketch out scenarios that invite us to reflect on contradictory forces—the predictable and the unpredictable, chaos and cosmos. Installed in the intimate setting of Filomena Gallery, the exhibition extends this experience by integrating the former Condessa Filomena Matarazzo Maternity Hospital into the architectural project of Rosewood São Paulo, creating a path between memory, art, and vital energy.
Find out more at: @gabriela.melzer
September 04 to November 03
24H
Galeria Filomena - Rosewood São Paulo
Art & Culture
Be guided through the unique identity of each environment and appreciate the details and culture present in the hotel as an art gallery.
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