Departures of note

Rodrigo Cass was a Brazilian visual artist from the city of São Paulo. Before dedicating himself to the visual arts, he was a Carmelite religious, belonging to the Ordem do Carmo between 2000 and 2008. He then graduated in Visual Arts from Faculdade Santa Marcelina in São Paulo and built a career of more than two decades in the art circuit. He held solo exhibitions in galleries in Brazil and abroad, including in Portugal, France, and the United States. His works are part of the collections of important institutions such as the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM), the Museu de Arte da Pampulha in Minas Gerais, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He died at the age of 43 of an apparent drowning at Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro.