All and Everything

Exposición / Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art / Oslo Plads 1 / Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Dinamarca
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Cuándo:
30 ago de 2019 - 17 nov de 2019

Inauguración:
30 ago de 2019

Organizada por:
Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art

Artistas participantes:
Alexandre Estrela

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Descripción de la Exposición

The exhibition All and Everything presents, side by side for the first time, two pieces by Portuguese artist Alexandre Estrela: Solar Watch (2006) and The Golden Record (All and Everything) (2017). The show examines how concepts such as time and space are understood through an idiosyncratic standpoint. The pieces convey a new decree of laws that disrupt the common order of things, questioning our perception of certainty by suggesting all variables can be possible, as a new symphony of paradoxical properties. In the piece The Golden Record (All and Everything), a solar system cast in bronze moves endlessly to the sound of 16 voices. The forced rotation of this monumental disk reveals an invisible object, a ninth planet that collides in its course with mathematically aligned stars and draws an eccentric orbit at the surface of the screen. While in Solar Watch, a metal sundial bends a video projection to the presence of its gnomon (the stick of a Solar Watch); the course of the sun is determined by a shadow, governed by time, as if time symbolized a gravitational force and the star was attracted by it. Both video installations exhibit recurrent traits of Alexandre Estrela’s practice, exhibiting an experimental redistribution of references: from connotations in the titles, unorthodox readings of scientific phenomena and obscure examples of art history; to the images, often sleeping within SD cards for long periods of time, until Estrela sets them in motion making the subject of the picture once more autonomous and concrete matter. ----------------------------------- The work of Alexandre Estrela (1971, Lisbon, Portugal) is an investigation on the essence of images that expands spatially and temporally through different supports. In his videos and installations Estrela examines the subject’s psychological reactions to images in their interaction with matter. Each piece has several layers to which we are initiated step by step. The works are not just there to be watched, but rather to be unfolded. Each piece convokes synesthetic experiences, visual and sound illusions, aural and chromatic sensations that function as perceptive traps, leading the subject towards conceptual levels. With this strategy Estrela is constantly problematising the elements that constitute the act of perceiving, splitting vision into further sensible dimensions towards the unseen and the unheard. Recent solo exhibitions include Métal Hurlant at Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris; Volta Grande at PIVÔ, São Paulo; Lua Cão (with João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva), a project initiated in 2017 by Galeria Zé Dos Bois in Lisbon, that traveled to the Kunstverein München, and concluded at La Casa Encendida, Madrid in 2018; Knife in the Water, 2018, at Travesía Cuatro, Madrid; Ouro Mouro, 2018, at Quetzal Art Centre, Vidigueira, Portugal; Baklite, 2017, at CAV Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal; Cápsulas de silencio, 2016, within the Fisuras Program, at the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Roda Lume, 2016, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp, M HKA, Belgium; Meio Concreto, 2013, at Museu Serralves in Porto, Portugal; Um homem entre quatro paredes, 2013, at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil; The Sunspot Circle, 2013, at The Flat Time House, London, UK, among others. Some of his future shows, taking place in 2019, are: Um Mês Acordado at Indipendenza, Rome and The Powers of Emotion at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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