SP-Arte
2025Original publication
Talles Lopes, 27 years old, trained as an architect, has completed several artist residencies, including at the Delfina Foundation in London, and has worked as an assistant to Dalton Paula. His research is closely connected to architecture and aims to represent the Brazilian interior, always with a critique of the persistence of colonial legacies in the country. Alongside artists Joardo Filho and Valdson Ramos, he founded Barranco Ateliê in Anápolis, which also promotes exhibitions, artist residencies, and discussions. Barranco Ateliê serves as another space for exchange, audience development, and support for the local art scene.
Barranco Ateliê, like other studios, residencies, fairs, and cultural spaces, is yet another place to discover new artists and explore different perspectives on contemporary art."- Beatriz Almeida
SP-Arte
2025Original publication
Curator Lucas Albuquerque highlights six emerging movements in the global art scene: textile art takes center stage, non-figurative art expands, queer ecologies reshape narratives, digital art breaks boundaries, performance makes a comeback, and site-specific projects redefine the relationship between artwork and space.
The Brazilian scene, increasingly central to this discussion, strengthens its position with curators like Adriano Pedrosa and Denilson Baniwa, who bring new perspectives to this transformation.
ARTSLIFE
2024Original publication
"At the Cerrado Gallery, under the artistic direction of Divino Sobral, probably the most attentive critical eye in the region, we were able to discover the work of Talles Lopes and his “Paisagem Aclimatada”: a pictorial journey through the tropes of the Brazilian landscape – Talles is trained in architecture – that mixes the semantics of the urban rationalism of this area, which saw many “planned” cities during the last century, simultaneously including the aspect of exploitation, impossible to ignore, that this land has experienced and continues to experience in terms of agriculture and intensive livestock farming, in dimensions of devastating proportions that have clearly affected the ecosystem, the environment, as well as the exploitation of labor."
Matteo Bergamini
FOUNDWORK
2023Original publication
"Through sculpture, artist books, and installation, Talles Lopes' practice investigates the ways in which socio-political systems and Modernist architecture in Brazil echo the country’s colonialist past and inform its complicated present. The columns of Brasilia’s Alvorada Palace are a recurring motif in Lopes' work—commonly understood as a proud, yet kitsch symbol of Brazilian progress, Lopes satirically personifies the columns by setting one into a hammock or leaning several against a wall as a suggestion of municipal surplus. Through replication and appropriation, Lopez retroactively questions the political agendas behind historical events of the Global South."
Moira Sims
SP-Arte
2023Original publication
“What kind of artistic practices are inspiring young artists? What are the themes that are emerging in these fresher productions and how can these poetics guide us in 2023? Although lists are somewhat reductionist, here are some names that set the tone of the current art scene and what we can expect for the next year.
SP–Arte invited the curators Ana Roman, Deri Andrade, Guilherme Teixeira, Thierry Freitas and Victor Gorgulho to indicate and present the work of artists that, in their opinion, we should follow closely.”
“Talles Lopes (Guarujá, 1997) has shown himself to be an important thinker of space and architecture through art. Graduated in architecture and born in the Midwest, a region where modernist architecture was widely disseminated in the second half of the 20th century, the artist has shown his interest, through installations and sculptures, in investigating the issues involved in the Brazilian modernist program and its consequences for life in big cities.” Thierry Freitas
EL PAÍS
19.11.2022Original publication
SeLect Magazine n.56
2022Original publication
The works "Monumental Surplus" and "Acclimatation Garden" presented in the 56th edition of SeLect Magazine, composing the editorial curator PANORAMA DO CERRADO, thought by Juliana Monachesi, Luana Rosiello, Eloisa Almeida and Mateus Nunes.
Cronos. RTVC (Radio Televisión Canaria)
2022Report on the exhibition “Concretos”, curated by Gilberto González and Pablo León de la Barra at TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (Spain).
Escola da Cidade
04.05.2021Open class in the discipline "Ordinary Architecture: learning with what exists", a course taught by Helena Cavalheiro and Gabriella Gonçalles at Escola da Cidade university.
Brazil Builds: Architecture New and Old (Construção brasileira: arquitetura moderna e antiga)
The elective course “Ordinary Architecture: learning with what exists” offers an open class with the visual artist Talles Lopes. An investigation into the appropriation of modern elements by unofficial constructive cultures in Brazil, starting from a set of projected examples that incorporate the shape of the column of the Palácio da Alvorada (project by Oscar Niemeyer in Brasília, 1958) in their facades, among other projects .
PISEAGRAMA
2017Nº11: "INTOLERÂNCIA".
Works published in dialogue with the text "Penas Perdidas" by Louk Hulsman.
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7th EDP Foundation Award
2020Interview for the 7th EDP Foundation Award, held at the Tomie Ohtake institute. São Paulo, Brazil.
FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO
09.09.2019(Original publication)
“Brazil Builds: Architecture New and Old” at the 12th São Paulo Architecture Biennial.
Dia a Dia Magazine #05
11.03.2019(original publication)
Dia a Dia Magazine was specially curated and designed by 614 for ‘Todo Dia’ 12a Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo. From October 30 to November 17 2020, we settled in CCSP to edit, print and broadcast everyday the 15 issues of the magazine.
Team 614: Fabien Goutelle; Zoé Sans-Arcidet Lajus; Clémentin Rachet; Mélanie Yvon; Hippolyte Roullier;
Jornal da BAND
05.2019Work done for the exhibition VAIVÉM (To-and-fro) shown on the Band TV Journal
In Image: "Hammocks: History and culture on display"
Globo News - Estúdio I
2020Original publication
Project for the exhibition VAIVÉM (To-and-fro) shown on Globo News.
“The ‘hammock‘ resists time and appears throughout the history of Brazil”
CGTN Español
2020Project for the exhibition VAIVÉM (To-and-fro) shown on CGTN.
AXIS Web Magazine - Japan
14.11.2019Original publication
“Report on the 12th São Paulo Architecture Biennial: "Everyday" as the theme of the exhibition.
The work “Brazil Builds: Architecture New and Old” by Brazilian artist Talles Lopes traces the impact of modern architecture by Oscar Niemeyer in Brasília, the capital of the 1950s, on the construction of popular houses. It is typological fieldwork.
One of the hallmarks of Niemeyer's architecture is the placement of multiple columns on the facade, woven by repeated curves, which were later incorporated into the design of residences throughout Brazil. Front views and photos of 40 houses spread across 15 states in Brazil were displayed on the site's panel.“
O Popular
21.06.2019Original publication
