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Galeria Pedro Cera: Marcius Galan - GEOMETRIA INFORMAL - 30 Oct 2008 to 20 Dec 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Marcius Galan
Isolante (repouso), 2008, Painted metal and nails, 78 x 42 x 5 cm Image � the artist. Courtesy Galeria Pedro Cera |
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Marcius Galan GEOMETRIA INFORMAL, Oct 30 � Dec 20, 2008 The Pedro Cera Gallery takes great pleasure in announcing the solo exhibition by the artist Marcius Galan. In this first solo exhibition in Lisbon, Marcius Galan is presenting a set of eight sculptures in which the dominant presence is that of works belonging to the series with the overall name of �Isolante". In this group of works Marcius Galan starts from an observation of informal occupations in the urban territory in order to then modify those provisional limits of appropriation to the definitive state, using yellow painted iron in order to simulate signalling and demarcation tapes. The areas are presented as somewhat reduced, as if those structures only existed in order to guarantee and signal their own presence in space. In the work "�rea comum", Galan invents the existence of two spaces formed by four concrete blocks bordered on their edges by yellow road signalling paint, the joining together of which will end up producing an area made up of eight blocks. The importance of geometrical and spatial relationships in Galan�s work is particularly evident in the work "Ponto", in which a small square concrete block receives a black circular dot, which is greater than its surface and spreads over to the sides of the work. As a whole, the works presented establish a permanent dialogue with the tradition of Brazilian Concrete and neo-Concrete Art, dealing with issues related to the concepts of function, limit, frontier, and frailty of the defining of space and other such matters, consequently, and in the final analysis dealing with the notion of freedom. Marcius Galan was born in 1972 in Indianapolis, USA, and lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has had solo or group exhibitions in places such as the Luisa Strina Gallery, Sao Paulo, the Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York City, the Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, among others. Marcius Galan GEOMETRIA INFORMAL, Oct 30 � Dec 20, 2008 A Galeria Pedro Cera tem o prazer de anunciar a exposi��o individual do artista Marcius Galan. Nesta sua primeira exposi��o individual em Lisboa, Marcius Galan apresenta um conjunto de oito esculturas onde domina a presen�a de trabalhos pertencentes � serie genericamente denominada "Isolante". Neste grupo de trabalhos, Marcius Galan parte da observa��o de ocupa��es informais no territ�rio urbano, para modificar esses limites de apropria��o provis�rios para o estado definitivo, socorrendo-se do ferro pintado de amarelo para simular fitas de sinaliza��o e demarca��o. As �reas apresentam-se tendencialmente reduzidas, como se essas estruturas apenas existissem para garantir e sinalizar a sua pr�pria presen�a no espa�o. No trabalho "�rea comum", Galan ficciona a exist�ncia de dois espa�os constitu�dos por quatro blocos de bet�o delimitados nas extremidades por tinta amarela de sinaliza��o rodovi�ria, de cuja jun��o resultar� no final uma �nica �rea percept�vel constitu�da por oito blocos. A import�ncia das rela��es geom�tricas e espaciais na obra de Galan s�o particularmente evidentes na obra "Ponto", em que um pequeno bloco quadrado de bet�o recebe a pintura de um ponto circular negro, maior do que a sua superf�cie e que se projecta nas laterais da pe�a. As obras apresentadas estabelecem, no seu conjunto, um di�logo permanente com a tradi��o da arte concreta e neo-concreta Brasileiras, percorrendo quest�es ligadas aos conceitos de funcionalidade, limite, fronteira, fragilidade das defini��es de espa�o e afins, tratando, por consequ�ncia e em ultima an�lise, da no��o de liberdade. Marcius Galan nasceu em 1972, em Indian�polis, EUA, e vive e trabalha em S�o Paulo. Exp�s individual ou colectivamente em locais como, Galeria Luisa Strina, S�o Paulo, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, ou Museu Arte Moderna, S�o Paulo, entre outras. |
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