Two solo shows
dal 17/12/2003 al 18/1/2004
Segnalato da
17/12/2003
Two solo shows
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
Vik Muniz's exhibition at CGAC includes a very representative selection of pictures, grouped in series whose title generally refers to the material they are created with. Marcel van Eeden. The drawings can be viewed as nothing less than an obsessive attempt to reconstruct the period prior to his birth and hence to gain access to an era that he himself never witnessed. For this reason, they must be regarded as a single coherent body of work, an encyclopedic corpus embracing every aspect of life prior to 1965.
Vik Muniz and van Eeden at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC)
CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea) is pleased
to announce the forthcoming solo shows of Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and
Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden. The opening will take place at its premises
in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on Thursday December 18th, 2003.
Vik Muniz (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1961) works as a craftsman in his workshop
with different materials, such as chocolate, wire, sugar. He uses them to
make up portraits and architectures; he reproduces well-known images and
pieces done by other artists, which he eventually photographs. The result
is never what it seems at first sight - he deceives the spectator's eye
and forces him/her to look again. Vik Muniz's exhibition at CGAC,
sponsored by Fundacion Telefonica, includes a very representative
selection of pictures, grouped in series whose title generally refers to
the material they are created with: Pictures of Wire; Pictures of Thread;
The Sugar Children; Pictures of chocolate; Pictures of Dust; Pictures of
Ink; Pictures of Color; Prisons; Pictures of Earthwork [The Sarzedo
Drawings]; Pictures of Clouds; Pictures of Magazines; Erotica (Pictures of
Silly Putty); Pillows (After Durer); Monads and Miscellaneous (non serial
works). Within the Series: Images of chocolate we find some works which
Muniz created from the Way of Santiago de Compostela, route that the
artist covered during the Spring of 2003: Catedral de Burgos, Catedral de
Leon and Catedral de Santiago de Compostela are works that Vik Muniz will
present for the first time in the CGAC.
For his drawings, Marcel van Eeden (Den Haag, Holland, 1965) draws
insouciantly on photographs and illustrations from old books and
magazines, ranging from travel books and topographical atlases to books on
art and periodicals like Life, De Wereldkroniek, Paris Match, De Spiegel
and De Katholieke Illustratie. By meticulously copying these images,
always beginning in the top left-hand corner of the paper and ending in
the bottom right-hand corner, this avid bookworm makes them his own
(through a process known in the language of postmodernism as
appropriation). Almost as if he were a machine pre-programmed to draw, he
churns out at least one drawing a day and preferably more. The key to
understanding Van Eeden's endless and apparently chaotic stream of images
lies in the dating of his source materials: the illustrations he uses
usually date from the period between the 1920s and 1965, the year in which
he was born. Accordingly, the drawings can be viewed as nothing less than
an obsessive attempt to reconstruct the period prior to his birth and
hence to gain access to an era that he himself never witnessed. For this
reason, they must be regarded as a single coherent body of work, an
encyclopedic corpus embracing every aspect of life prior to 1965.
image: Vik Muniz: Double Mona Lisa, After Warhol (Peanut Butter + Jelly) [ Mona Lisa dobre, a partir de Warhol (crema de cacahuete + confitura) ], 1999
opening: December 18th,2003, 8 p.m.
For further information please contact CGAC Press Department: ph.: +34 981
564 632
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC)
Valle Inclan s/n 15704
Santiago de Compostela