Rolando Anselmi is pleased to present Il Giorno più Lungo, the solo exhibition by Jorge Queiroz that celebrates the end of the residency at Rolando Anselmi Upstairs.
Queiroz’s pictorial and graphic practice unfolds as a mental lexicon, where vision, matter, and dream intertwine in layered images, free from linear narrative. The title of the exhibition, referencing the summer solstice, evokes an atmosphere that runs through both canvas and works on paper, where imaginary scenes emerge and dissolve like mental landscapes inhabited by fleeting presences and unresolved narrative fragments.
The compositions oscillate between abstraction and figuration, automatism and control. On his canvases, chromatic flows suggest lost places or bucolic refuges, alternating moments of emotional openness with instances of solitude. Silhouettes and figures briefly appear before vanishing again, in a fluid movement that turns painting into a site of emotional tension and narrative suggestion.
The works on paper—executed with mixed techniques such as graphite, acrylic, inks, and colored pencil—reveal an immediate, fluid gesture that unfolds without correction. Pauses in the mark-making introduce spaces for suspension and reflection. Across both mediums, Queiroz builds vibrant, organic images that resist rigid structures, unfolding according to an inner logic of thought.
Il Giorno più Lungo thus presents itself as a journey through the artist’s mental landscape: a shifting territory traversed by emotions, visions, and transient memories.
Jorge Queiroz (b. 1966, Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon. Recent solo exhibitions include: Galerie Rolando Anselmi (Roma, 2025), Galeria Bruno Múrias (Lisbon, 2024, 2021), Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Brussels, 2023, 2017; Paris, 2021, 2015, 2009), Jahn und Jahn (Munich, 2023), Serralves Museum (Porto, 2020, 2007), Pinksummer (Genoa, 2019), Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon, 2018), Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (New York, 2014, 2010, 2001), Thomas Dane Gallery (London, 2008, 2006), and Pavilhão Branco (Lisbon, 2015). Selected group exhibitions include: MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon, 2024, 2021), Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren (Germany, 2024), FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA (Bordeaux, 2022), Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room (London, 2021, 2017, 2015), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2017, 2013), Fondation Carmona e Costa (Lisbon, 2012), Fondation Daniel & Florence Guerlain (Amiens, 2008), 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2004), and 50th Venice Biennale (2003). His work is held in numerous public and private collections including MoMA (New York), SFMOMA (San Francisco), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Serralves Museum (Porto), and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon).
