“Shell”
Shell
(SKU. 10862)
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Date
2021 -
Technique
embroidery on photograph printed on satin -
Dimensions
(H x W) 140 x 140 cm -
Edition
5 + 2PA -
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Exploring elements from botany, prints, marine organisms and architectural fragments, Mariana Palma addresses the interpenetration of bodies, highlights alternations between moments of tension and expansion, and composes endless universes resulting from the exploration of light and shadow. In the series of photographs developed exclusively for Carbono, the fabrics commonly used in her paintings become the support for the images. On a surface of dust, flowers, fruits and shells mix together, giving rise to new organisms. Embroidered elements complement these images, sharpening the sensorial aspect of these compositions and encouraging the viewer to get closer and unravel the layers of each work.
Biography
Mariana Palma
Mariana Palma's work is mainly represented by paintings, watercolors and photographs, in which colors and images of nature are explored in different formats and technical solutions. In her paintings, which can reach large dimensions, the entire surface of the canvas is covered with color patterns obtained through the marbling technique, which results in complex chromatic patterns. Compositions are created on these patterns with disparate elements, such as tiles, drains, plants, flowers and fabrics. Combining a precise rhythmic composition with a drama that evokes baroque painting, the images created by Palma sometimes make the creases and veins between petals and planning indistinguishable, and sometimes mix up elementary assumptions of painting, such as figure and background, distinctions between planes and the notions of landscape and portrait. Reflections on temporality and vitality also gain space in the watercolors, photographs and works on fabric, in which the artist exercises the approximation between different organic elements.
He has held several solo exhibitions, such as: "The Vanity of the Caged Bird", Vistamare, Milan, Italy (2024); "Painting as a Verb", Millan, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); "Lago Interior", Teatro Municipal Casa da Ópera, Ouro Preto, Brazil (2022); "Just like the gardens…", Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2021); "Lumina", Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil (2020).
Among his participations in group exhibitions are: "Latinoamerica", La Fundación Canaria para el Desarrollo de la Pintura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (2023); "MON sem paredes" (2023); and "Afinidades II" (2022), Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; "50 duetos", Espaço Cultural Unifor, Fortaleza, Brazil (2021); "Abstración", Galeria El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia (2017); "The Light that Veils the Body is the Same that Reveals the Screen", Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2017); "Piece by Piece: Building a Collection", Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, United States (2015); "Trajectories – Brazilian Art in the Edson Queiroz Foundation Collection", Espaço Cultural Unifor, Fortaleza, Brazil (2013); and "This is Brazil! 1990-2012", Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos, La Coruña, Spain (2012).
His work is in institutional collections such as the Rio Art Museum – MAR, Brazil; Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Brazil; Itaú Cultural Institute, Brazil; Institute of Contemporary Art, United States; Edson Queiroz Foundation, Brazil; Ribeirão Preto Art Museum, Brazil; Campinas Museum of Contemporary Art, Brazil; and Pinacoteca Municipal de Santo André, Brazil.
Representative galleries
Almeida & Dale Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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Lumina | 2020 | Instituto Tomie Ohtake, SP | foto: Filipe Berndt
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Soma | 2017 | Casa Triângulo, SP | foto: Filipe Berndt
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Deságue | 2012 | Casa Triângulo, SP | foto: Edouard Fraipont
