Musée d'Orsay. Lucas Arruda

"It is an honor to be the first Brazilian artist to have a solo exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay. Above and beyond a personal accomplishment, I see it as a testimony to the importance of Brazilian painting today.

Exploring the Impressionist Gallery and applying myself to hanging my work in dialogue with these paintings has been an overwhelming experience. It is these landscapes that shaped me, that taught me how light could be a subject in itself, how a brushstroke could contain movement and time. There is something profoundly beautiful in this meeting: my imaginary landscapes set alongside those painted by the impressionists, based on their direct observations.

I think that this accumulation of memories, of images superimposed over the course of time, operates as an internal archive of different landscapes, eras and places. And even though our existences are anchored in the present moment, our minds cross other eras and other images; I suppose that painting does not obey the linear passage of time".

Lucas Arruda

LUCAS ARRUDA. QU’IMPORTE LE PAYSAGE

8 APRIL–20 JULY 2025

 MUSÉE D’ORSAY | PARIS, FRANCE

On the cover: Lucas Arruda, Untitled (from the Deserto-Modelo series), 2013

Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm

© Lucas Arruda Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner and Mendes Wood DM Photo: Everton Ballardin

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