O amor no éter

Exposición / Xippas Arte Contemporáneo Punta del Este [ESPACIO CERRADO] / Ruta 10 km 164, Manantiales / Punta del Este, Maldonado, Uruguay
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Cuándo:
24 feb de 2017 - 15 mar de 2017

Inauguración:
24 feb de 2017 / 18:00

Precio:
Entrada gratuita

Organizada por:
Xippas

Artistas participantes:
Janaina Tschäpe

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Etiquetas
Dibujo  Dibujo en Maldonado  Lienzo  Lienzo en Maldonado  Pintura  Pintura en Maldonado 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Xippas Galleries announces "Love in the Ether", a solo show of the mayor german-brasilian artist Janaina Tschäpe at the gallery space in Manantailes, Punta del Este. To her first exhibition in Punta del Este, the artist presents a selection of new paintings on canvas, together with a series of recent drawings. Love in the Ether There’s a landscape inside me Between noon and two PM Long-legged birds, their beaks slicing the water, enter and don’t enter this memory-place, a shallow lagoon with slender reeds along the shore. I live there, when the desires of the body, Those metaphysicians, exclaim: How Lovely you are! I want to excavate you until I find where you keep so much feeling. You think of me, and your secret half-smile crosses sea and mountain, gives me goose bumps, love beyond the natural. The body is as light as the soul, minerals soar like butterflies. All of it from this place between noon and two PM. Adelia Prado Exploring all kinds of landscapes, Tschäpe’s work is an invitation to an extraordinary world, a sensual place full of malleable creatures and amorphous beings. Through various forms of expression, the artist constantly reinvents perceptions of the natural world, making use of a dynamic combination of photography, drawings, paintings and sculptures. Together these mediums work to bring the observer into Tschäpe’s watery, organic universe, one of curiosity, astonishment and wonder. Water has a big weight on her work; one can observe its contribution and manifestation throughout most of her medias, its presence found in most of her work. Not only its fluidity, but also the layered aspects it builds, extensively investigated in her paintings and drawings, or as the field for sundry creatures and entities performed on her photographs and videos Water also works to render the sensual feminine world she embraces: the fertile universe of her fantastic subjective science. Jellyfish, mermaids, octopi, seahorses... The references are endless, creating a chart of extraordinary organisms inspired by memories, myths and dreams. Curiously, Tschäpe shares her name—Janaina—with a Brazilian sea goddess of the Candomblé religion. The multifaceted structure of Tschäpe’s creative process functions as an attempt to organize and “categorize” her creatures, invents based on memories, myths and dreams, opening up a dialogue that subverts our usual perceptions of landscapes and beings, realigning our vision of the landscape and nature in general. Thriving for an endlessly prolific universe, Janaina is also somehow measuring time. As she writes, “You look at something and try to find out where it ends. So the contemplation of a landscape is always a search, the search of something new, the search of time.” While in her earlier works Tschäpe often placed herself within the landscape, she now explores her memories, her inner after-images, conjuring her travels and expeditions to a deeply-layered remembrance. Whether through her paintings and drawings or photography and film, Tschäpe reacts to her life experiences in an intense meditative contemplation of the landscape. BIO Janaina Tschäpe was born on 1973 in Munich, Germany and was raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Hochschule fur Bilende Kuenste, Hamburg and her Master in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New. The artist lives and works in New York. Recent projects include Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2016), Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (2015), Galerie Xippas, Paris, France (2015), Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2014), Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona (2014), Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium (2013), Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, (2012). Janaina Tschäpe is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Harvard Art Museum, Boston, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary of Art, Japan, Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand, MAM Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Images au Centre Collection, France, Moderna Museet, Sweden, Stedelijk Museum voor actuele kunst, Belgium, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Austria, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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