André Pitol Read Bio Collapse
André Pitol is a São Paulo–based art researcher, lecturer, and curator. He studied at the Museu do Sol in Penapolis, the Arts Foundation in São Caetano do Sul, and holds a PhD in Arts from the University of São Paulo. He was adjunct curator of “Parable of Progress” (Sesc Pompeia, 2022) and co-conceptualized “School of Quilombismo” (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2023). In 2024, he curated “Edival Ramosa – Nova Construção Totêmica” (moraes-barbosa collection, 2024) and was part of the International Graphic Arts Center research residency in Ljubljana.
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It is not by chance that Edival Ramosa’s New Totemic Construction sketch was made during a time of intense debate within the arts about what was considered “constructive” in Brazil and abroad. But Ramosa, with his proposition for a “new totemic construction,” was not trying to join that white lineage of geometric abstraction; he was rather thinking about the racial complexity of abstraction and how race’s structural relations could be expressed in a structurally ascendent—totemic—way.