“Brise-Soleil (west facing)”
Brise-Soleil (west facing)
(SKU. 12576)
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Date
2023 -
Technique
painted marble -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 60 x 25 x 7 cm -
Edition
15 + 3PA -
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Brise-Soleil is the new multiple proposed by artist Estela Sokol for Galeria Carbono.
Composed of marble slats painted with different color combinations, the work is designed to activate the space and its surroundings based on the colors that reflect on the marble, the wall and the environment. The brise-soleil comes out of the window and comes to the wall like a kind of expanded painting, mimicking the different situations of hue and sunlight.
In a play on the homonymous architectural element, designed to attenuate the incidence of light on the environments, the artist antagonistically transposes it to the internal space, bringing the light inside and illuminating it with the colors of the world, so that the spectator, when moving through the space, experiences and recognizes something familiar in the tones chosen by the artist.
Biography
Estela Sokol
With color and light as the central elements of her research, the artist transforms the use of materials to bring the pictorial reasoning of sculptures and objects closer together. In her works, she uses different materials, such as beeswax, resin, foam, pigment, stone, paraffin, concrete, brass, wood, copper, graphite, fabrics and various plastics, ceramics, among others. The artist combines raw materials and painting procedures such as encaustic, dyeing, glazes, spray paints and enamels, insisting on seeking a new status for color.
Different nuances and changes in tone are recurrent in the artist's work and processes, and are most clearly seen in her public art and natural interventions, as well as in her paintings made without the use of paint. In these works, through the manipulation of different sheets of plastic, felt, photoluminescent fabrics and other synthetic materials, the colors and tones are created by superimposing layers of different materials from the industrial palette (translucent and/or opaque), which, stretched over wooden frames, create new hues and propose a dialogue with the tradition of painting and the history of art.
In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at the Taipa Museum (Macau, China), Gallery 32 (London, England), Paço das Artes (São Paulo, Brazil), Maria Antonia University Center (São Paulo, Brazil), Galerie Wuensch (Linz, Austria), Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil), among others. He has participated in group exhibitions, such as: “Gasträume Public Art” (Zurich, Switzerland); “13th Mercosul Biennial” (Porto Alegre, Brazil); “Prometheus Fecit”, at the Soares dos Reis National Museum (Porto, Portugal); “Beyond the Point and the Line”, at Mac Usp (São Paulo, Brazil); “3rd Biennial Del Fin Del Mundo” (Ushuaia, Argentina); “16th Cerveira Biennial” (Cerveira, Portugal); “Light Art Biennale” (Linz, Austria); “Bradesco Artrio Urban Interventions”, at the Museum of the Republic (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); “International Three-Dimensional Biennial”, at the National Historical Museum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and “New Art Nova”, at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil).
Destaques da carreira
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Contraforte | Largo da Batata, São Paulo. Brasil. Mostra 3M | 2018 | Foto André Velozo
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Greta Garbo | Largo da Batata, São Paulo, Brasil. 2018 | foto: Rubens Azevedo
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Polarlicht series | 2011 | Upper Austria Polarlicht series | 2011 | Upper Austria
