Anno Domini // the second coming of Art & Design
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Endless Draft
Zezão (São Paulo, Brazil) Solo Exhibition
The exhibition Endless Draft presents a collection of works that emerge from a state in which the notion of completion becomes imprecise. It is not an unfinished work, but an open work. A work that seems to have no end. The drawing remains active, even when the work is already suspended on the wall. The moment when a work is said to be "finished" happens more as a gesture of surrender than as a definitive conclusion a conscious pause in something that could continue. This decision is intimate, silent, and does not need to be perceived by the viewer.
Today, these layers cease to be merely physical and begin to exist as mental structures, as systems of thought, as logic. The subterranean becomes internal.
At this point in my practice, the work increasingly approaches drawing as a central language. More than the support be it canvas, cardboard, or found frames the focus is on the line as a code. The materials are necessary as a field of inscription, but what truly structures the work are the signs: graphic symbols that operate as open systems, capable of being continued, rewritten, and retranscribed.
These drawings function as expanding visual codes. They do not represent specific places or closed narratives. They suggest mental states, flows of thought, a creative mind in constant motion. They are forms that do not seek an end, but the possibility of continuity. Each line carries the idea that another line could still exist.
This series reflects a moment in which the process merges with the work itself. A time when creating does not mean concluding, but sustaining an open field of possibilities. What is seen is only a momentary interruption of the gesture. Drawing remains active like a living, infinite language, in a permanent state of construction.
About the Artist:
Zezão is a Brazilian visual artist with over 30 years of experience, whose practice originated in street art and graffiti and gradually expanded into the field of contemporary art. He began his artistic production in the 1990s, developing an authorial visual language marked by drawing, flow, and the investigation of the city’s invisible spaces.
Throughout his career, Zezão has broadened his scope of practice, exploring multiple languages and mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, site-specific works, and sculpture. His work has been exhibited in Brazil and internationally, establishing a trajectory that moves fluidly between urban space and the institutional circuit of contemporary art.
Rather than representing specific places, his work has consistently focused on revealing layers physical, symbolic, and mental that structure urban and human experience. This research, which began in the streets, has evolved over the years in response to cultural, technological, and linguistic transformations.
In his more recent production, Zezão shifts the focus from physical space to drawing as a central language. Influenced by systems logic, technology, and the idea of continuous processes, he develops series that investigate the concept of endless draft: a mode of creation in a permanent state of construction, in which the act of “finishing” a work represents a conscious pause rather than a definitive conclusion.
Today, Zezão brings together experience and reinvention, maintaining drawing as the core of a living practice open, evolving, and in constant transformation.
Endless Draft marks the return of Zezão to Anno Domini with his second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Artist’s reception: Friday, February 6th 5–9pm
part of the South First Fridays ArtWalk SJ
Exhibition dates: February 6– March 14, 2026
Gallery hours:
Thursdays & *Fridays Noon–7pm, (*First Fridays 5-9pm)
Saturdays Noon–5pm
