14/2/2007
Two exhibitions
Art&Idea, New York
Fernando Garcia Correa and Ramuntcho Matta
Fernando Garcia Correa and Ramuntcho Matta
New York City's Art&Idea is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions,
Fernando Garcia Correa: 2927 Works on Paper and Ramuntcho Matta:
PressArt. Mexico City- and Madrid-based artist Fernando Garcia
Correa presents a series of abstract drawings that portray the patterns
and rhythms found in nature. In the small gallery, Paris-based American
Chilean artist Ramuntcho Matta presents his latest series of fantastical
collages and hypnotic videos.
The work of Fernando Garcia Correa evokes a wide range of
references including Op Art, topographical features, and woven textiles.
The delicate repeating lines found in his new drawings'which are
often presented as diptychs and polyptychs'create a sensation of
physical movement. Correa's working process is essential to the
final art object. The site-specific wall drawing that he created for the
exhibition, 298265, illustrates the complexity of his layered compositions
in which geometric abstractions reveal a utopian and subjective approach to
art-making.
Through his collages Ramuntcho Matta questions the authority of The
Press'an establishment that society accepts as purveyors of truth
and objectivity. He removes press photographs them from their original
context, tapes them to notebook pages, and draws over them to manipulate
them in the way that the media manipulates the public. In addition to his
seemingly random patterns of newspaper print and bombardment of
journalistic imagery, Matta will also show new video works.
Fernando Garcia Correa has participated in major international
solo and group exhibitions at prestigious institutions including Museo de
Arte Moderno and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alvar y Carmen T. de
Carrillo Gil in Mexico City; Centro Cultural de México in Paris;
and the Drawing Center in New York. Ramuntcho Matta currently lives in
Paris. He has worked as a musician, sound artist, and video artist and has
shown his art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid;
and Royal Academy of Art, London.
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