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21/9/2005

Two solo exhibitions

Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto

To inaugurate the 2005/06 season, the Galeria Pedro Oliveira is simultaneously presenting two solo exhibitions, the first ones at the gallery by these two young artists: Carlos Correia and Marco Pires. Two different approaches to painting that show the vitality of this medium in contemporary artistic production.

Carlos Correia
Painting
With this present exhibition, Carlos Correia (Lisbon, 1975), who studied at the ESAD, in Caldas da Rainha, and at the Ar.Co School, is proposing an interrogation on the meaning of the existence of painting in relation to the concerns that are ravaging the contemporary world. What meaning might a painting about terrorist attacks have when we are submerged by countless images of such events? What functions might painting take on nowadays? Might it only be the fruit and expression of a painter’s disquiet, or should it go beyond this? In this questioning of painting, Carlos Correia looks at the contemporary condition, revealing his concerns as an artist and as a human being. His understanding of the function and content of a painting may perhaps be shown in his portrait of Tony (the main character in the TV series The Sopranos). For Carlos Correia painting is situated, like Tony, on the fine line between truth and fiction, mostly not going beyond stagings that carry as much of truth as they do of fiction. However, in the contemplation of these images (as takes place with the character Tony), while we are attracted by a refined aesthetic sense we cannot help associating them to the recent events that have frightened and disturbed the world.

Marco Pires
Horizon
Marco Pires (Alcobaça 1977), with a degree in painting from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, has been carrying out a work around a graphic and chromatic research centred on the search for solutions for the central meditation of his work: how to paint nowadays. In order to answer this question, Pires bases his work on a search for the perfect support on which to locate his artistic project. The paintings he is presenting here, with the title Horizon, arise following on from the series White Landscapes, formed on the one hand as his first approach to landscape depiction marking out a transition between a more abstract phase to a more figurative one, and on the other hand as an intense exploration into glass as a support. The major innovation of Horizon is not the subject matter but the change in support. In this new series Pires abandons glass in order to experiment with aluminium as a new support capable or allowing new possibilities of painting. If his painting is meticulous, rigid and contained, in which the colour work stands as a central moment, the drawings that accompany the series are characterised by a freer and even expressionistic hand, in which it is the line that has the outstanding role.

Image:
Marco Pires | MP 029
Lustro | 2004
Enamel on glass plate
100 x 100 cm

Opening: September 22nd (Thursday) at 10 pm

Until November 5th
Galeria Pedro Oliveira
Calçada de Monchique, 3 - Porto
Tuesday to Saturday 3 pm to 8 pm

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