Two exhibitions
dal 7/3/2013 al 19/4/2013
Segnalato da
7/3/2013
Two exhibitions
Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto
The art of travel - solo show by Ana Perez-Quiroga - had as starting point the homonymous book by the philosopher Alain de Botton. Willem Weismann's solo show presents a new series of paintings and includes an ambitious large-scale 6.4 meters long painting.
The art of travel
Ana Pérez-Quiroga
The art of travel had as starting point the homonymous book by the philosopher Alain de Botton, in which the artist found ideas very close to her own work process – the travel, the preparation, landscape, life, chance, art and happiness.
All the journeys (2013). Work composed of 2002 baroque pearls, 1001 silk threads, silk fabric, a waterbed, light and a fan. These are pearls from the China seas, with a naturally irregular surface, which creates differences among them.
Plane-dreaming #1-12 (2012). Twelve drawings in China ink on rice paper, with a shape of airplane windows. In each window, a baroque pearl. The drawings were painted by Lin Qin (林禽) using a traditional Chinese technique, and signed and stamped by Ana Pérez-Quiroga.
Brise soleil #13 (2013). An installation of rice paper on the gallery windows.
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Chaîne Opératoire
Willem Weismann
Willem Weismann's first solo show in Portugal presents a new series of paintings and includes an ambitious large-scale 6.4 meters long painting, the largest one the artist has completed to date.
Chaîne Opératoire is a concept used in archaeology and anthropology coined by the French archaeologist and ethnologist André Leroi-Gourhan. Its basic definition refers to the range of processes by which naturally occurring raw materials are selected, shaped and transformed into usable cultural products. An example of the application of this thinking would be to look at the creation of a simple hand-axe as a method to address the complex social, ecological and cognitive dimensions to these activities.
These colourful works feature rubble, trash and just “stuff” both from times long in the past and the past five minutes being brought to the surface, as if someone has been cleaning out a planet-sized closet. What may go unnoticed at first glance is that the work can be further deconstructed, as the literal painting process has left its own history on the canvas. Weismann uses the canvas surface for the totality of all paint and brush related actions, as this is where his brushes have been wiped clean and the canvas used as a palette. The inclusion of every brush-related action on the canvas forms a complete historic residue and the reverberating noise of leftovers that have fallen by the wayside. The paintings function as mineral deposits, workspace, and trash heap. The combination of which constitutes another chapter in the research of Weismann's examinations in use value, obsolescence, inclusiveness and waste.
Image: Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Plane-dreaming, 2012. Drawing in China ink on rice paper, baroque pearls
Opening March 8, 10pm
Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto
Rua Miguel Bombarda, 578 - 4050-379 Porto, Portugal
opening hours 3–7.30pm (mon to sat)