Maria Nepomuceno
dal 22/1/2010 al 5/6/2010
Segnalato da
22/1/2010
Maria Nepomuceno
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
Always in a Spiral. The Brazilian artist allows her sculptures to spread across the exhibition space like vegetation in a mysterious garden. She uses rope and necklaces as raw material for her work, letting them take on their natural spiral form. For Nepomuceno the metaphor for the body and nature is central. She is inspired by ancient traditions and materials giving them new form and content. Curated by Elisabeth Millqvist.
Curated by Elisabeth Millqvist
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall is installing four hammocks and opening the spring season on January 23 with a young Brazilian artist.
Maria Nepomuceno allows her sculptures to spread across the exhibition space like vegetation in a mysterious garden. She uses rope and necklaces as raw material for her work, letting them take on their natural spiral form. For Nepomuceno the metaphor for the body and nature is central. She describes rope as a line, an umbilical cord, and every bead as a fertile point and a possible beginning that can be multiplied infinitely. In one work a giant bead rests in a hammock while another sculpture is filled with thousands of small glittering beads. Every time she exhibits a sculpture she changes it and combines a part of it with another or takes it apart completely. Nepomuceno is inspired by ancient traditions and materials giving them new form and content. In Latin America hammocks are places of sleep, birth and death but the artist is also interested in the movement, the rocking motion. The artist will let her sculptural hammocks suspend across the exhibition space at Magasin 3.
She says of her work, "I want to create a situation that feels like transiting from the beginning of our culture to the present."
Maria Nepomuceno has re-worked existing sculptures and created new ones for the space. The exhibition at Magasin 3 is her second European solo show. She was born in 1976 and lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With a background in industrial design and art she has been actively exhibiting since 1999, most recently in her hometown at A Gentil Carioca (2009).
Image: Untitled, 2009-2010, detail. Photo: Jesper Nordström. Courtesy the artist
Press contact
Tove Schalin Ph +46 8 545 680 40 schalin@magasin3.com
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Frihamnen, 115 56 Stockholm
open Thu 11am – 7pm, Fri – Sun 11am – 5pm
The entrance fee for the exhibitions is 40kr. Pensioners and students pay 30kr and those under 20 get in free.