In 2024, Galeria Estação celebrates 20 years of activity, a trajectory that has been built alongside the most significant transformations in the Brazilian cultural scene. Changes in our society have led to unprecedented advances also in the visual arts, gradually opening up to the power of previously silenced voices, such as those of our indigenous peoples and of African descent. This context inspired the selection of four Brazilian artists for the upcoming Armory Show: Chico da Silva (1910 - 1985), André Ricardo (1985), Deni Lantz (1993), Santídio Pereira (1996) and Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900-1995). Drawing from the representativity of Chico da Silva's work, our main purpose is to bring forth the essence of Galeria Estação's work, through the communion of different generations and origins' discourses.

Chico da Silva's work is considered one of Brazil's most emblematic, an authentic representative of independent and self-taught art. Of indigenous origin, the artist was born in the Amazon rainforest region, a context that inspired him in constructing narratives of magical realism, which could be joyful and colorful or dark and mystical. His legacy paved the way for the new generation artists, such as Santídio Pereira, also born in the Northern region of Brazil, who reinvented the practice of woodcut printing, and André Ricardo, who incorporates references from his African ancestry into festive paintings. Meanwhile, Deni Lantz, a promising young painter, stands out for a production that sits on the threshold between the figurative and the abstract. Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, known as Lorenzato, was a Brazilian modernist painter. His paintings in a primitivist style depict landscapes and the daily life of the suburbs of Belo Horizonte.