Mazzoleni is pleased to present Tracing Thought. 2002–2025, a solo exhibition by Iran do Espírito Santo.
The exhibition retraces over twenty years of the Brazilian artist’s career and features new site-specific works conceived specifically for the show. It unfolds in the grand rooms of the gallery’s main floor, creating an intimate dialogue with the architecture.
An internationally renowned artist with works held in major collections including MAXXI in Rome, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Espírito Santo conceived the Turin exhibition inspired by the architectural qualities of the gallery space. These characteristics allowed him to reflect on his practice over the past two decades, focusing on two key concepts at the heart of his research: light and scale.
The theme of scale is explored both semantically and physically: the scale of objects, proportion, and also chromatic scale, as in Switch (2025). This new site-specific wall painting belongs to one of the artist’s most iconic and globally recognised series. Composed of 56 shades of grey.
Espírito Santo explains: “The wall pieces (drawings and paintings) play an important role in my production. To me, wall pieces are ‘resistance pieces’, that are there, despite our commodity-obsessed society. All this is to say that the ephemerality of it becomes part of the condition of having it done, and maybe adds another poetic layer, like an art of time as well as space.”
Iran do Espírito Santo Tracing Thought. 2002–2025.
Private view: Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 10am–8pm / mazzoleniart.com.