Nara Roesler São Paulo is pleased to present Blue Blood, a solo exhibition by Marcos Chaves (b. 1961, Rio de Janeiro), featuring new tapestry works alongside three objects, two of which date back to the 1990s. The exhibition builds upon an intervention the artist carried out in 2013 at the Eva Klabin Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, where Chaves presented rugs that were photographic replicas of fabric details from the foundation’s collection.

In Blue Blood, Chaves displays the new red-toned tapestries on the walls—works that reproduce photographs taken by the artist of carpeted floors in historic European locations such as Palazzo Doria Pamphilij, built in 16th-century Rome; the staircase leading to Napoleon Bonaparte’s (1769–1821) only surviving throne, at the Château de Fontainebleau in France, which dates back to the early 12th century and served as a residence for French royalty; and the Opéra Garnier, designed during the reign of Napoleon III (1808–1873), the thirteenth palace to house the Paris Opera, founded by Louis XIV. 

exhibition essay by Ginevra Bria

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