The first of these, entitled Memories of the Future, in the Millan Gallery Annex, focuses on an essential question in his work: time. The second, at the Tomie Ohtake Institute, displays a panoramic view of the artist's paintings, with large-scale canvases and from different phases, selected by curator Paulo Miyada.

A happy coincidence that allows the public to confirm, in double doses, the solidity and maturity of his work and witness the artist's ability to reinvent himself without losing his identity. Paulo Pasta needs no further introduction when it comes to contemporary painting. The artist brings in the baggage the poetics of the great modernist painters in constant dialogue with Brazilians such as Volpi, Dacosta, and Iberê Camargo.

Among the most striking aspects of his research are his tendency to work with darker colors and his great concern with the exploration of chromatic values. This research into the saturation and intensity of tones derives from his investigation of the function of color as an element central to the creation of optical effects in painting.

Pasta often says that he learned from Matisse the value of discipline and from Volpi the importance of patience. "Intention is not enough; the project must be subjected to daily, persistent, slow action, thus becoming destiny."