“Bye Bye Brazil”
Bye Bye Brazil
(SKU. 13745)
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Date
2024 -
Technique
polyactic acid -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 198 x 10 x 3.5 cm -
Edition
20 + 3PA -
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"Bye Bye Brazil" is the name of the new and humorous wall relief proposed by Estela Sokol for Carbono Galeria.
The work consists of a slender set of green and yellow semicircular shapes that, installed side by side, form a long vertical line on the wall.
Made from polylactic acid with photoluminescent properties, the work explores the translucent quality of the material: its interaction with light creates an ephemeral visual dynamic, in which shades of green and yellow alternate, as in a game of hide-and-seek.
The external whitish tone of the material reveals a bluish tone when day passes into night, when the photoluminescent property transforms its accumulated energy into colored light, enhancing the perception of colors over time.
New shades of green and yellow oscillate in intensity and vibration, taking advantage of the contrast between light and shadow and subtly altering the original colors, which reinforces the concept behind the title "Bye Bye Brazil" – a metaphor about the transformation and transience of the country's symbolic colors.
The geometric simplicity and repetition of shapes reflect the artist's search for a minimal essence, where color and materiality play a central role. Throughout the day, variations in light tint the green and yellow, giving shape to a work in constant transformation.
The semicircular and repetitive cap that makes up the work proposes a dialogue with aspects of modernist architecture, such as the tiles and openwork structures of Brasília, inserting the work into the context of modernity and exploring the symbolic role of colors in national identity.
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
