Angela de la Cruz / Anna Maria Maiolino
dal 31/3/2010 al 29/5/2010
Segnalato da
31/3/2010
Angela de la Cruz / Anna Maria Maiolino
Camden Arts Centre, London
Situated in between painting and sculpture, London-based artist Angela de la Cruz's work stems from a feeling of exhaustion with painting as a medium. The exhibition After includes works especially created for the architecture of the galleries, new paintings and works not previously exhibited in London. Anna Maria Maiolino, presents a new, site-specific installation and a selection of film works made over the last 30 years. The installation refers to everyday tasks, to the individual, society and language; each piece retaining distinctive marks of its manufacture and collectively creating an imposing structure.
Angela de la Cruz: After
Situated in between painting and sculpture, London-based artist Angela de la Cruz’s work stems from a feeling of exhaustion with painting as a medium. “My starting point was deconstructing painting… One day I took the cross bar out and the painting bent. From that moment on, I looked at the painting as an object.”
De la Cruz questions painting’s solemn and authoritative status, tearing, crushing and breaking canvases and stretchers. Titles such as Homeless, Ashamed or Deflated reveal the work’s human qualities and emotions. Cruz’s work is not an outpouring of anxiety, but an expression of an inexhaustible determination in a hostile world, where even the gallery seems unsympathetic; crushing and trapping works in doorways or corners.
Angela de la Cruz was born in La Coruña, Spain and moved to London in 1989. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ College and completed an MA in Sculpture and Critical Theory at the Slade School of Art in 1996. The exhibition at Camden Arts Centre will include works especially created for the architecture of the galleries, new paintings and works not previously exhibited in London. This is her first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery.
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Anna Maria Maiolino: Continuous
One of the most significant artists working in Brazil today, Italian-born Anna Maria Maiolino, presents a new, site-specific installation and a selection of film works made over the last 30 years.
Anna Maria Maiolino was born in Italy in 1942 and moved to Brazil at the age of eighteen. Studying painting in Rio de Janeiro her artistic career took shape in the 1960s and 1970s, a key period in Brazilian art when artistic experimentation clashed with a repressive political regime.
Employing diverse disciplines and mediums including clay, ink, film and performance, Anna Maria Maiolino’s work retains a fundamental concern with creative and destructive processes and with identity; from the subjective to the universal.
For her exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, Maiolino will create an installation using several hundred kilograms of clay. Created by manually rolling and shaping the clay into hundreds of rolls or balls, the basic shapes used in ceramics, the installation refers to everyday tasks, to the individual, society and language; each piece retaining distinctive marks of its manufacture and collectively creating an imposing structure.
The exhibition will also include selected films made by Maiolino over the last 30 years, including Y, (1974) and +&- (1999).
The exhibition is supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and the Embassy of Brazil in London.
Image: Installation view: Among Many (retrospective exhibition), 2005
Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil Photographer: Isabella Matheus
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Opening on 1 April 2010
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