Descripción de la Exposición
The show “The Book of the Wind ” by Alan Fontes is the first individual of the Brazilian artist in New York, opening the new headquarter of Emma Thomas Gallery at the “Lower East Side”.
The project is the result of an artist residency, unfolding of his research on tornadoes in TV news, internet and magazines. Since 2013, Fontes does this research from images of areas devastated by natural disasters or not. Specifically for this exhibition, the hurricane Sandy, which in 2012 has reached areas of New York and New Jersey, has been the object of study.
Documentary images from the original context become the poetic narrative of a single event. On the trajectory of the artist, painting and installation are the dominant languages of their creative process. The installations painting in the field expanded, opposed to the other means that highlighted the virtual character of painting through the contrast with a chaotic reality in continuous transformation, propositions that lead us to speculate about representation and presentation.
The installation is a sequence of the individual shows performed by the artist in two Brazilian cultural institutions: the “Pampulha Museum” in Minas Gerais and the “Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil” in Rio de Janeiro, as a result of the CCBB contemporary Award.
About Alan Fontes’ research:
The series “Deconstructed Houses” was the penultimate individual show of the artist in São Paulo, with paintings that proposed a reflection about the unity of the House while the body casing and its dematerialization as symbolic and universal event.
Among the various interests of Alan Fontes, stands out the taste for domestic disasters in individuals, always anchored in the idea of home as a body that turns subtly representation of architectures in portrait mode.
The notions of memory, from the resulting world virtualization, reverberate in the design of self-portrait which shall discuss a repertoire of artistic issues which exceed the representation of the face of the painter. The self-portrait takes itself a deep current art issue and arises as the backdrop for the discussion of issues such as the notion of authorship, the idea of "death of the author" and even to speak of the inconstancy of time and space.
Premio. 27 ene de 2025 - 10 mar de 2025 / Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava, España
Exposición. 06 feb de 2025 - 11 may de 2025 / Sala Recoletos - Fundación MAPFRE / Madrid, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España