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13/4/2007

Three solo shows

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto

Jorge Queiroz

Curated by: Joao Fernandes

Jorge Queiroz's drawings, videos and watercolours use the fantastic and the grotesque as the basis for a singular cosmogony. Figures and situations associate humour and tragedy, recognised references and extraordinary narratives, in a surprising use of drawing as the basis for non-narrative visual fictions. In each drawing, the confrontation between density and dispersion originates a special kaleidoscope that filters reality for a new universe of humorous transgression. A baroque effect is created by the juxtaposition of motifs and references.

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Katharina Grosse

Curated by: Ulrich Loock

Katharina Grosse is one of the German artists who has created the greatest challenge to the architecture of exhibition spaces, invading them pictorially through the use of sprayed colours. Notwithstanding the spectacular, visually stimulating and playful aspects of Grosse's work, it also addresses fundamental questions associated to painting. This exhibition is articulated with presentation of the works by Queiroz and Bächli. The Museum thus offers the possibility to reflect upon contemporary practises associated to the relationship between brush- and line-drawing techniques and drawing techniques that use resources from the world of painting.

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Silvia Bachli

Curated by: Ulrich Loock

To a certain extent, Silvia Bächli's works impose limitations: with the exception of a handful of photographs, she restricts herself to drawing (in different mediums) on paper and in black and white, or rather, without using colour. These restrictions, however, form the basis of a set of works that redefine the boundaries of drawing itself, the placement of marks on a material surface. Bächli addresses a wide variety of themes – people, plants, gestures, lines…always treated with great aesthetic economy. They are iconic signs that address specific and particular aspects rather than the general. Sometimes, certain sheets of drawings are installed in order to serve the space created by the wall that supports them, or large drawings that entirely cover the wall, almost engulfing it. In this manner, Bächli's installations mediate between a communally shared space and personally codified figurations.

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
Rua D. Joao de Castro - Oporto

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