To celebrate the exhibitions in Brasília and New York, Luiza Gottschalk will release her first book, Accident, She-Wolf, Three Cycles of the Rosa Mango Woman, plus Other Paintings and Short Stories: A Forest-Book, edited by Galciane Neves, former curator of the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture. 

Luiza Gottschalk
Glade: To Touch Painting

at Olfactory Art Keller
25 Henry Street
March 10 to April 30, 2022

One does not see a painting only with the eyes, but with all five senses.

                                                                                  Wassily Kandinsky

Olfactory Art Keller is honored to present Luiza Gottschalk's exhibition of scented paintings Glade: To Touch Painting. This is Gottschalk's first solo exhibition in New York. It is on view concurrently with her exhibition Clareira in Brazil's National Museum of the Republic in Brasília. Unlike her paintings in that exhibition, the ones on display at Olfactory Art Keller are meant to be touched to release the scents embedded in the paint.

The six paintings for Glade: To Touch Painting were created during the artist's latest residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York in 2021 as a result of her investigation of aromas as a means to amplify the viewer's sensorial perception of her paintings. The paintings overflow the canvas and take the viewer with their whole body. Perceiving becomes an active process. To unlock the smell, the viewer has to reach out to   release it into the world.

Nature and its endless landscapes are at the core of Luiza Gottschalk's creative exploration and the use of scents allows her to incorporate the essences from the forest in her work. There are four scents in the paintings of the show: wet night (fresh and damp), dry forest (which evokes the smell of dry, trodden grass), citrus (fruity), and pasture (warm and vivid). The aromas were developed with the help of scent experts.