Rodrigo Cass

Rodrigo Cass’s work engages in dialogue with the constructive tradition of Brazilian art, structuring his pieces through a formal repertoire that recalls the Concretist and Neoconcretist experiments of the 1960s and 1970s. His fascination with ruptures and intersections within the pictorial plane manifests in surfaces that transcend two-dimensionality, expanding into reliefs and volumetric canvases.
Cass frequently projects videos onto sculptural objects, integrating performative physicality with pictorial reasoning, allowing texture and color to emerge as fundamental structuring elements of space. For the 14th Mercosul Biennial, the artist presents a project that examines art through the lens of painting and sculpture, exploring the concepts of abstraction, synthesis, and renunciation. His work engages in a dialogue with architectural space and reflections on human existence, the body, and individual and collective histories.

Fernanda Soares da Rosa