FÁBIO MENINO
Everyday
Online presentation
January 20 – February 20, 2023
Mama is pleased to present an online exhibition of four new paintings from Fábio Menino (b. 1989, São Paulo, Brazil).
Menino is attracted to the symbolic load that objects can bring to the painting themselves – generally related to consumption, economic issues, and their social relations. He chooses objects for his paintings primarily based on their quotidian utility and design, usually produced on an industrial scale, questioning how advertising aestheticizes and perhaps even nullifies functionality.
“I am interested in presenting banal objects, which are part of everyday life. In my work, I always try to take a different look at what is so commonplace that it goes almost unnoticed. Generally, we relate to objects only functionally when we can relate to them aesthetically or sensibly.”
Menino is attracted to the symbolic load that objects can bring to the painting themselves – generally related to consumption, economic issues, and their social relations. He chooses objects for his paintings primarily based on their quotidian utility and design, usually produced on an industrial scale, questioning how advertising aestheticizes and perhaps even nullifies functionality.
“I am interested in presenting banal objects, which are part of everyday life. In my work, I always try to take a different look at what is so commonplace that it goes almost unnoticed. Generally, we relate to objects only functionally when we can relate to them aesthetically or sensibly.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
His work has been exhibited at the Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil; and Sesc Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, among others. He received the acquisition award from the 45th Luiz Sacilotto Contemporary Art Salon, São Paulo, Brazil. His work is part of the Museu de Arte do Rio's collection in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.