“Seated figure - Quartzite”
Seated figure - Quartzite
(SKU. 11078)
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Date
2021 -
Technique
quartzite -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 45 x 17 x 20 cm -
Edition
12 + 2PA -
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The sculpture “Seated Figure - Quartzite”, as WMT likes to say, “was petrified when its gaze met Medusa’s”. References to Greek mythology are recurrent in his work, with countless works that dialogue with myths and the tradition of classical sculpture. In his recent production, developed during the first months of quarantine, Wagner Malta Tavares created small tabletop sculptures made with copper tubes on which sheets of fabric rest, and which announce the presence of air in movement when some wind blows over them.
In the same year, 2020, WMT occupied the empty pool at Pacaembu Stadium, where similar pieces - only in this case measuring up to 6 meters in height - were supported on the edges like figures resting and enjoying the space.
The same situation is presented to us in “Sitting Figure – Quartzite”: a schematic human figure rests on the edge of a base, the difference being that here the movement has been frozen, interrupted, and has left traces of the accumulation of slow and constant waves of its geological formation on the stone. It is a cut in time, a section of an event, “it is like taking time away from a body and giving some permanence to something fleeting”, as is the case in much of the sculptural production throughout history.
Biography
Wagner Malta Tavares
Wagner Malta Tavares works with sculpture, photography, objects, videos, performance, urban interventions, and drawing. His work seeks to establish relationships between POP imagery, classical literature, construction principles, and intangible elements such as light, moving air, heat, cold, and aromas, to broaden the field of art in search of a possible metaphysics of bodies.
His solo exhibitions include Instituto Tomie Ohtake, SP (2010), Mac Niterói, RJ (2010), Centro Universitário Maria Antonia (2004), CCSP (2001), and group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, such as “Rider Project” in Chicago and NY (2006), “Accident” at Mnac in Bucharest (2007), “7sp” in Brussels (2012), “Alternative Orders” in Norway (2012), “Hohenrauch – ImOokkulturequartier” in Linz, Austria, and the 34th Panorama of Brazilian Art at MAMSP. In 2006, he was selected by the Iberê Camargo Grant to be an artist in residence at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He was a finalist for the PIPA Prize in 2014. Presented the installation “Perfume de Princesa”, in which 350 meters of zinc tube snake between Casa da Imagem, Beco do Pinto and Solar da Marquesa, in the center of São Paulo, exuding aromas that used to be part of the city in the 19th century (2013/2014).
Destaques da carreira
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Instalação "Herói" | 2010 | MAC Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
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Instalação "Círios" | 2015 | MAM SP
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Vista da exposição individual "METEORO" | 2018 | Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo
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Instalação "Sursum Corda" | 2019 | Mairiporã, São Paulo
