Vargas-Suarez Universal
dal 14/4/2006 al 3/8/2006
Segnalato da
14/4/2006
Vargas-Suarez Universal
Karpio + Facchini Gallery, Miami
A New Kind of Science. The artist creates jagged abstractions in an aesthetic exploration of various sciences and mathematics by drawing from technical information that ordinarily wouldn’t lend itself to artistic expression.
A New Kind of Science
On Saturday, April 15th, Karpio + Facchini Gallery will present new work by New York
based artist Vargas-Suarez Universal. This will be the artist’s first individual
exhibition at the gallery, and in Miami. In 2005 his work was the subject of “A La
Pared: Space Station: Tenochtitlan" a solo exhibition at Museo de Arte Carrillo
Gil in Mexico City, and “Barrocos & Neobarrocos (El Infierno de la Belleza)"a
group exhibition at Domus Artium 2002 (DA2), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura,
Salamanca, Spain.
His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern
Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Queens Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of
Art Library, El Museo de Barrio (all in NY), Jersey City Museum, NJ, Rhode Island
School of Design Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Domus Artium 2002 (DA2),
Salamanca, and the Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea in Siena, Italy
among other institutions.
Vargas-Suarez creates jagged abstractions in an aesthetic exploration of various
sciences and mathematics by drawing from technical information that ordinarily
wouldn’t lend itself to artistic expression. Source materials often incorporated
into the works include space related architectural references, like the schematics
of satellites, and scientific data, such as wind currents on Mars and the
instruments that detect such information, into complex installations as big as 20 by
80 foot acrylic frescoes to small 11 by 8.5 inch ballpoint pen drawings. One of the
installations in A New Kind of Science “Virus Americanus XV" is a “painting
intervention" of wall drawings on an actual 18tth century French tapestry. Another
installation, “Event Horizon", consists of oil enamel paintings made onto old
satellite TV dish antennas.
Joining Vargas-Suarez will be Gerry Stecca whose exhibit “See-thru the End" in
Gallery 2 will seek to define temporary spaces by creating flowing, patch-like
curtains of shimmering, metallic leaflets. David Rosenbloom’s outdoor project
“Conversations in the New City" will feature large, banner-like photographs that
will make the gallery parking area look like a construction lot. The photos,
influenced by Italo Calvino’s Invisble Cities, will offer an imaginative
exploration of the limitless potential of buildings realized in our own minds.
In attendance at Saturday’s opening will be Eduardo Kac, a Brazilian artist who
has achieved worldwide acclaim and controversy with his genetically engineered to
glow-in-the-dark rabbit named Alba. Kac is now represented by Karpio + Facchini and
will be having a show of his own that will coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach.
Opening: Saturday, April 15, 2006, 7:00 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Karpio + Facchini Gallery
1929 NW 1st Ave - Miami