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GALERIA LEME: JUAN IRIBARREN || VISIONES CONTEMPOR�NEAS VENEZOLANAS - 1 Aug 2013 to 24 Aug 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Juan Iribarren, Untitled, 2013
Oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm |
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JUAN IRIBARREN | OBRA RECIENTE Opening: August 1st – 7 pm Until August 24th, 2013 Galeria Leme is has the pleasure to present the exhibition Obra Reciente (recent works) by Venezuelan artist Juan Iribarren. Comprised by a series of recent oil paintings and photographs, the group of works seeks to point out the artist’s abstract vocabulary and, at the same time, to blur the evident distinction between paintings and photograph. In this exhibition Juan Iribarren continues his investigation on the accumulation of geometric structures overlapped on colored fields of gestural execution. They are composed by specific light situations that happen in his studio throughout the day. The artist perceives these light and color variations inside this same space, showing the action of natural environmental aspects on objects previously handled by him. As a result, the work is presented as a juxtaposition that seems impossible and contradictory of the geometry and the atmosphere (space/density) and the luminosity (light/color). In spite of having the painting as central media of his artistic production, his work is also developed through photography, creating works that shifts the matters of painting when confronted with the unmistakable immediacy of the photographic lens. In this digitally manipulated photographs, the geometric structures and the atmospheric qualities in his repertoire appear gathered in a new perceptive abstraction. About the artist: Juan Iribarren (Caracas, 1956). Lives and works in New York, USA. Participant in the 30th São Paulo Biennial, amongst his exhibitions stand out the solo shows: Henrique Faría Fine Art, New York, USA (2011); “Obra Reciente”, Faría + Fábregas, Caracas, Venezuela (2009) and the group shows: “Nuevos Vínculos”, Selection of works from the 30th São Paulo Biennial, Hacienda La Trinidad Parque Cultural, Caracas, Venezuela (2013) and “Then & Now: Abstraction in Latin American Art, 1950-Present”, Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York, USA (2010). VISIONES CONTEMPORÁNEAS VENEZOLANAS Opening: August 1st – 7 pm Until August 24th, 2013 Galeria Leme has the pleasure to present the exhibition Visiones Contemporáneas Venezolanas (Contemporary Venezuelan Visions), a group show with works by Christian Vinck, Daniel Medina and Luis Arroyo. These artists has as commonplace the rereading of Venezuelan art history from the contemporary, as they resort to certain visual, conceptual and ideological references that refer to the plastic Venezuelan imaginary. Christian Vinck is a self-taught artist that currently dedicates entirely to painting. The artist is characterized by being an image collector and creator of works that portray and reinterpret documents and themes inspired by an infinite variety of visual stimulus. The three series of works selected for the exhibition shows some of these impulses. In the series Armitano, based on a group of books by Ernesto Armitano (important Italian cultural editor), Vinck portrays in an almost monochromatic way the cover of these books, developing a peculiar iconography from literary memory. In the same way, from Russian Toys (Juguetes Russos), an article published by Walter Benjamin that theorizes on the popular Russian art and the childish vision of world as a collective figuration, the artist paints fragments of the essay and of the images that are part of it, reflecting on the contemplation and the toy as artesian object. In the work Laminario Portátil de Mapas Tropicales, Vinck presents a selection of paintings on maps of the Pacific and Caribbean coasts that, portrayed in a cartoonish way, constitute a kind of geographic chart made for children. Daniel Medina brings to this exhibition a project entitled Solución Habitacional. The work is composed by a series of modules that when put together become apartment structures, similar to the ones used in the dwelling solutions by Le Corbusier. The artist constructs these modules based on the alteration of the mountable model of the Louvre Museum's frontal façade, disarticulating the systems of representation and propagation of European socio-cultural models inherited by Latin America, specifically in the 1950's. Luis Arroyo has been developing his artistic practice around concepts as anteriority and exteriority of elements as the sonorous, the history, the document and the archive, the ideologies, the painting, the disease, the war, amongst others. These interests are understood as starting points for the creation of works that are in essence residues or traces of something that cannot be done or said. In this exhibition the artist presents three works. Desaceleración Fantásmica is a set of twelve book covers - empty and enlarged - that alludes to the spectral character of fundamental ideological systems in the development of 20th century's history. In the work Restauración del Aura, from the series Libros Exhumados, Arroyo creates, on a set of fifteen books, compositions variations from the graphic signs used by Walter Benjamin in his manuscripts, at the same time they allude to the abstract and geometric Latin-American painting. In Obliteraciones the artist selects different image compilations from art history, anthropology, and hoarding archives to turn his margins visible and reach open cultural landscapes. Some of these visual repertoires have as subliminal base the colonial politics inherent to collecting and museology. Arroyo, through restructuring different kinds of archives, approaches Latin-American art, as Vinck reconfigures, through painting, historical and artistic documents, and Medina disarticulates the architectural representation systems. In this way, the creators generate aspects in common that refer to the socio-political and cultural context in Venezuela and the rest of the continent. Galeria Leme Av. Valdemar Ferreira, 130 São Paulo | Brasil Mon - Fri 10 am – 7 pm Sat 10 am – 5pm+55 11 3093.8184 [email protected] www.galerialeme.com |
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