“Through simple gestures and a dialogue between materials, I try to rediscover the poetic dimension hidden in everyday life, a way of seeing the world anew.”
Zé Tepedino (b. 1990, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lives and works) creates a minimalist vocabulary of abstract forms whose meaning, even when displaced and reduced to its simplest expression, still evokes a familiar figuration. His practice unfolds in actions, assemblages, installations, and expanded paintings that navigate between biography and the grammar of materials, offering a poetic rearrangement of the world around us.
Tepedino has held solo exhibitions at Casa Triângulo (São Paulo), Isabelle Gallery (Dubai), OM.ART (Rio de Janeiro), and ABC Gallery (Milan and Genoa). He has participated in artist residencies at Alserkal (Dubai), Zsenne (Brussels), and Residência Fontes (São Paulo). His work has been featured in group exhibitions at major Brazilian and international venues, including Kupfer (London), Anita Schwartz Gallery (Rio de Janeiro), and the Museum of Art of Rio.