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The exhibition "Shady light" curated by Paulo Venancio Filho represents the largest retrospective to date on the carioca artist and renowned engraver Oswaldo Goeldi (b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1895-1961) with close to 200 artworks (original xylograph prints and drawings) created from 1920 to 1961, the year of his death. Goeldi's expressionism production represents a particular language of Brazilian modernism, an obscure and melancholic vision of Rio de Janeiro in contrast with the "shinny" and colorful proposals of his peers. "Goeldi is the artist of the frontier region, the "arrabaldes" or the outlying suburbs of Rio de Janeiro where the landscape is neither that of the city or country, an indefinite region, just as the city at that time was indefinite."--Page 21.