Kicking off today the event Gallery Week 2021, which presents a series of free admission activities of the visual arts circuit in the city of São Paulo.
The agenda is promoted by SP-Arte Viewing Room in partnership with ABACT – Brazilian Association of Contemporary Art.
Portas Vilaseca Galeria presents new exhibitions in two different spaces in the city. At Fonte space, in Vila Madalena, we join Sé and Karla Osório galleries in the group show “Diamante-Grafite-Carvão” (“Diamond-Graphite-Charcoal“). Curated by Fernando Mota, the exhibition proposes dialogues that cross disciplines and areas of knowledge, putting human and exact sciences on the same route, through site-specific projects and a selection of works from the collection of the three galleries.
Our represented artists Felipe Seixas, Íris Helena and Raquel Nava participate in the show displaying objects, sculptures, installations and paintings.
Raquel Nava exhibits two paintings, in which the mixture of enamel, polyurethane, acrylic, glitter and collage on canvas results in an organic explosion without clearly defined limits between colors, lines and substances – as if the paintings were still fresh, alive, in formation . The artist also presents the sculpture Lingam Mística, made with turtle and snail shells, styrofoam, biscuit and feathers, elements both familiar and unknown, which in metamorphosis, arouse a kind of fascination and repulsion. Two other sculptures with similar characteristics mixing taxidermy and synthetic materials provoke the same feeling of strangeness: Dystopian landscapes #1 (biscuit, curassow and carcará feather, horse teeth, hedgehog thorn, brass plate, ferret tail, crystals and fool’s gold) and Duo, a black bow with two heads of the same dog at the end in a copper coloration.
Felipe Seixas presents a new installation composed of a sequence of small sculptures with stone bases supported by minerals and objects, originated from 3D printers; in the center of the small totems there is a TV monitor on the wall and immersed in a pile of sand – on the screen the video suggests sand grains making an opposite path to gravity, an evaporating golden powder. The work contrasts natural materials with technological and digital components, a harmony between the material and the immaterial, a sample of a universe worthy of science fiction – or is it a glimpse of a parallel universe?
On the other hand, Íris Helena, exhibits the installation Memorabilia, made up of iron totem poles and picture frames with remains of photographs piled up. The work is about the transformation of the initial status quo, the action of time on ordinary matters of the world and the erasure of our memories and feelings. In the context of the show, Memorabília physically alludes to the transformation of carbon from end to end – the dark and opaque bases refer to charcoal, the photographs dissolve in the middle like graphite, and the stacked glass creates translucent structures, sharp as diamonds.
Click here and download the full digital catalogue of the show, including critical text (in Portuguese only) by curator Fernando Mota.
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INFO
Diamante – Grafite – Carvão ( Diamond-Graphite-Charcoal )
Period: 8 June – 24 July 2021
Visiting times: Mon-Sat, 12h-19h
Where: Espaço Fonte – Rua Mourato Coelho, 751 – Vila Madalena, Sao Paulo SP
Access for wheelchair users and all COVID 19 protocols are followed
Free admission
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PICTURES GALLERY
