Mindy Solomon is pleased to present a collaborative exhibition with AppArt Paris to showcase Uruguayan artist and 2025 Venice Biennale representative Eduardo Cardozo. For his first solo show in Miami, Cardozo will feature seminal works from 2009-2024.

Crafting works that speak to art history, materiality and time, Cardozo brings a warmth and subtlety to his surfaces. Whether it is a large-scale canvas that breathes through an unprimed surface of warm tones and soft saturated colors, or a textile work remade from scraps of canvas, each piece is a fragment of time. In works such as Péndulo, 2009 Cardozo creates a sense of delicately floating objects leaving a distinct slick or residue as they move through space. Gentle wisps of line tether form and leave the viewer entranced with the nebulous nature of the image. Íntimo, 2021 is a small work but extremely impactful. Utilizing his signature style of oil on layered canvas, he creates a work that is reminiscent of his studio walls and the plaster surfaces of historic old master paintings. In his magnificent presentation at the Venice Biennale, Cardozo created a space of contemplation in a sea of deeply political and challenging pavilions. Drawing reference to Old Master Tintoretto, he created a project called Latent, an immersive installation that seeks to create a relational act between two painters at a distance: the Uruguayan Cardozo and the Venetian Tintoretto. This dialogue consists of three moments: the nude, the wall of Cardozo’s studio, transferred to Venice using the stacco technique; the vestment, an interpretation that the Uruguayan artist makes of one of the sketches of Tintoretto’s Paradise; and the veil, a cloth sewn from the scraps of gauze used to move the walls of the studio. This generates a counterpoint between Uruguay and Italy, south and north, between Cardozo’s work and his reinterpretation of Tintoretto’s painting.

Cardozo is focused on the notion of “meticulous reflection” regarding material resources and the challenges of creating a painting that reflects a representation of “mental space”. His imagery is informed by the modernist works of Paul Klee, Francis Picabia, Wassily Kandinsky, and Hans Arp.

The series of works selected correspond to this research. Throughout the exhibition, the pictorial space is marked by the tempo of manual techniques to which the slow and shaky gesture of the brushstroke and the frequent voids and interruptions of the visual discourse can be seen and experienced. In this space Cardozo shares the process of creation with all of us.