“Concretion,” the solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Felipe Cohen, marks his second collaboration with Gaep gallery in Bucharest. Bringing together new reliefs and sculptures, the exhibition explores the relationship between time, light, and space through a geometric yet poetic visual language, in which ephemeral phenomena are transformed into tangible forms.
“An exhibition of new reliefs and sculptures, ‘Concretion’ deepens Felipe Cohen’s pursuit of giving tangible form to time, natural light, the atmosphere of a place, and the interplay between them. Using an artistic lexicon grounded in geometric forms, economy of means, and poetic sensibility, Cohen seeks to solidify fluid states, materialize abstract or evanescent phenomena, transform moments into memories.
A series of nine reliefs reveals the artist’s modus operandi: he develops a modular vocabulary of lines and shapes through which he evokes different landscapes, topographies, and objects associated with space and time. The same geometric elements, arranged in varying configurations, may call to mind a mountain landscape, a waterfall, a sunset, a rafter, or an hourglass. Exploring the effects created by light in space—from the dematerialization of the horizon through reflection and the accentuation of certain areas within a landscape to the shaping of our emotional experience of space—the series approaches light as a fluid body.
Other works in the exhibition formalize the passage of time through the materiality and appearance of plywood or function as a metaphor for sculptural making, the result of a reflection on the very meaning of this artistic act.” (curatorial text)
‘Concretion’ will be on view from June 19 to July 25, 2026. This is the Brazilian artist’s second solo show with Gaep.
FELIPE COHEN (b. 1976, lives and works in São Paulo) is the winner of multiple awards – illy SustainArt Award at ARCOmadrid (2016), Atos Visuais Funarte (2007) and Fiat Mostra Brasil (2006) – and a four-time nominee to PIPA Prize in Brazil (2016, 2013, 2012, 2010). His practice develops from the tension between the traditional and contemporary ways of displaying the artistic object and the study of recurrent problems in art history in order to reinterpret and update their meanings in the present. Recent solo exhibitions include: Bordas da Tarde (Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box4, Rio de Janeiro, 2025), Sistemas para o poente (Kubikgallery, Porto, 2022), Eyelids (Gaep, Bucharest, 2022), Sol que abre o céu (Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box4, Rio de Janeiro, 2022), and Pálpebra (Galeria Millan, São Paulo, 2021). His work is part of museum collections such as Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu de Arte do Rio and SMoCA: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
