Frank Walter: The Philosophy of Color

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia presents Frank Walter: The Philosophy of Color, the first museum exhibition of the artist in Brazil.

Curated by Daniel Rangel and Barbara Paca, the presentation of Frank Walter’s work in Salvador, Brazil relates to the prominent role of African culture and the African diaspora in the formation of Bahia’s capital, as well as to its landscape, which resonates with the spaces observed and imagined throughout the artist’s work. The exhibition brings together a broad selection of works, encompassing different paths developed by Walter throughout his practice: landscapes, which reveal his close attention to the natural world; figurative works featuring fantastic beings, self-portraits, scenes of Caribbean social life, representations of different indigenous peoples that inhabited the region, such as the Arawak and Carib; as well as mythological scenes and abstract geometric paintings that articulate a deeply particular cosmology. Together, these works reveal the voracious manner in which Walter absorbed his surroundings, connecting people and places through history, as though traveling through time.