Thiago Honório (1979) is a visual artist and professor. He holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from Instituto de Artes da UNESP, and a master’s and PhD in visual arts from Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo. Since 2006, he has been a professor in the Visual Arts programs at FAAP. Since 2016, together with curator Ana Paula Cohen, he co-directs the Grupo de Orientação Artística – GOA.

His solo exhibitions include Leituras, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo (2024); roçabarroca, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2020); The Red Studio, International Studio & Curatorial Program – ISCP, New York (2018/2019); and Trabalho, Museu de Arte de São Paulo – MASP (2016).

Among his grants, awards, and residencies are: Gulbenkian | AiR 351 Grant, Lisbon/Cascais (2020); Director’s Circle Award, International Studio & Curatorial Program – ISCP, New York (2018); 6th Bolsa Pampulha, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte (2016); Programa de Residência Artística do Paço das Artes (2015); and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2012). He also received the APCA/2023 Award in Contemporary Art – Visual Arts, and his solo exhibition Oração at Galeria Luisa Strina (2023) was listed among “The Top Ten Shows Around the World in 2023” by Frieze magazine.

Vernissage (2007) is a polyptych composed of ten oil and varnish paintings on beveled canvases. Like a graphic punctuation mark—a kind of dot on the “i —the smaller paintings are placed above the larger ones. The ensemble is freely inspired by the allegory in El Greco’s The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1587), in which two planes can also be distinguished: an earthly plane, formed by solemn and elongated bodies, and a celestial plane, where the figures orbit the upper part of the procession.

The vertical arrangement of the set, as well as the projection of the canvases through the wooden bevels on which the fabric surface is stretched, allows for a direct relationship with the viewer’s own verticality and alignment before the work—seeking to create, even on the wall, a more honest, direct and bodily dialogue with it.