Incollect Magazine - Issue 10

Emporium Brazil Design Gallery Artist: Carlos Cesar Alves “Carlos Alves is a Brazilian-born painter based in Florida interested in visual perception,” says Carolina Dubois Alves from Emporium Brazil Design Gallery. “Though self-taught as a painter he has nonetheless mastered artistic styles as diverse as Surrealism, Cubism, and Pop art and today works exclusively in his own unique abstract geometric style influenced by Brazilian Concrete art of the 1950s and Latin America optical art of the 1960s and 1970s.” His interest in perceptual issues is partly inspired by his own visual limitations — the artist cannot see color, the world for him is only in shades of black, white, and gray. “His paintings oscillate between stark black-and-white works and strikingly color-saturated creations,” says Alves, who recently staged an exhibition of his works at their gallery in Miami. “He invites viewers to explore the boundaries between perception and reality, encouraging a reevaluation of how we interpret visual stimuli,” she says. “His ability to transcend personal limitations and transform them into creative strengths underscores his significance in the global art market.” Peter Blake Gallery Artist: Stephanie Bachiero “Thirty-plus years in the business have taught me that one should collect art that one loves and wants to live with and pass on to the next generation to enjoy. I have always loved Stephanie’s work and live with it,” says Peter Blake, an art and design dealer from Laguna Beach, CA. “It’s a hybrid of minimalist and organic sensibilities conveying sensuality. It’s rare to have all three of those attributes. I also love how all her works start in porcelain and re-emerge in different materials and scales that transcend their origins.” Bachiero’s sleek sculptures balance strength and fragility, geometry, and organicity. “She manipulates the clay to form elegant, seemingly undulating minimalist sculptures,” Blake says. “Twisting and turning, her graceful abstractions have the appearance of weightlessness, grounding themselves through components of negative space and solid architectural structure.” Her works sell well to national and international collectors, he says, and in 2024 one of her large-scale sculptures was acquired for the US Embassy in Sri Lanka. Incollect Magazine 87 ALEGRIMAIA, 2020. Mixed media on wood, 48 inches x 48 inches. Stephanie Bachiero, installation view of her solo exhibition in 2019 at Peter Blake Gallery.