Fable Chaser

Nara Roesler Rio de Janeiro is pleased to present Fable Chaser, the first solo exhibition in Brazil of the Venezuelan-born American artist Gerardo Rosales. Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, the show brings together more than 40 works produced throughout 2024, including paintings on canvas, works on paper, and a large mural created especially for this exhibition.

In the words of curator Luis Pérez-Oramas: “[Rosales’s] ultimate goal, perhaps, is to question a certain ideology of innocence with which we, humans of our time, transform childhood into an original fantasy. Against this, Rosales’s works remind us, through the luminous beauty of their ornamental trellises, that there has never truly been an unknown origin or an era of innocence; that humanity has always, forever, been marked and destined by possession and desire, by its exultation and its anxiety, by its daily little death and its instant and provisional paradise.”