“Thumbs up”
Thumbs up
(SKU. 12145)
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Date
2023 -
Technique
gold-plated brass cast branches, brass pulley with electrostatic varnish and gold-plated brass chain -
Dimensions
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Edition
10 + 3PA -
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"Laura Vinci's work makes the viewer dance. Few artists can do this or even take an interest in it. Laura achieves this effect while at the same time demanding delicacy of gestures, subtlety and care. Two light, thin and flowery branches, bathed in gold, an indicator of purity, are attached to the ends of an equally golden chain. They look like two climbers climbing a steep mountain. One depends on the other, the movement of one results in the movement of the other. And the viewer becomes a tiny demiurge, balancing the two bodies."
Agnaldo Farias
"The 10th anniversary of the Carbono gallery is the culmination of a very harmonious project. Celebrating them concludes a cycle and begins a new one. I took the duality of the number ten, as it is conceived in some cultures, as inspiration for the works presented here. For the Chinese, for example, the number ten is the duplication of the number five, which manifests the universe through the marriage of yin and yang. For Pythagoras, the number five is a symbol of union, at the center of harmony and balance. If the number ten is its duplication, I found in it a way to pay homage to the two creators of the Carbono gallery, Ana Serra and Renata Castro. They are the center, the balance and the harmony manifested in their duplicity."
Laura Vinci
Biography
Laura Vinci
Beginning her work in the 1980s, Laura Vinci focused her attention on space and its configurations. Despite using different materials throughout her work, these materials end up being related by their characteristics of color, materiality and fluidity, or by being different states of the same material, such as marble, dust and glass, or water, ice and steam.
For the exhibition "Arte/Cidade III", in 1997, Laura transformed a building into a kind of hourglass, by letting the dust from the building's decomposition escape through a hole in its slab, causing it to fall from one floor to another.
"Máquina do mundo" (World Machine), from 2005, occupies a room at Inhotim with extremely fine marble dust and a kind of machine that would generate this system. She also uses marble, apples and glass in Ainda viva; and a piano and steam in Choro. All of these works deal with the silent passage of time, a constant theme in her work that, alongside investigations into the nature and states of matter, solidifies the artist's research.
The artist has participated in important group and solo exhibitions, including the 26th São Paulo Biennial, the 2nd, 5th and 7th editions of the Mercosul Biennial and the 10th Cuenca International Biennial. She has recently had important exhibitions: "The Naked Magician", Bonnierskonsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2014); "The Naked Magician", National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark (2015); "H", Prada Foundation (Cisterna), Milan, Italy (2017); "Alfaiataria", Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); "I hope this finds you well", Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA (2019); "Balé Literal", Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019). His work is part of the collections of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Inhotim Institute, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, the Museum of Modern Art MAM-SP and the Palazzo delle Papesse, Italy.
According to critic Paulo Sergio Duarte, “in contact with her works, we experience a lost time, not that of Proustian memory, but that which has been kidnapped by contemporary life. As a sculptor, her time adheres to matter, even if it is water vapor.”
Representative galleries
Nara Roesler Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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Vistas da instalação "Clara-clara", no centro de São Paulo para o Edital Arte na Cidade em 2012. Esta obra também foi apresentada na em Melbourne, na Austrália e no Rio de Janeiro | Foto: Inês Bonduki.
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A instalação A instalação "Mona Lisa", de 2001, é composta de bacias de vidro, água, tubos de cobre e resistências elétricas. A imagem mostra a obra instalada no Paço das Artes, em São Paulo.
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A instalação "Máquina do mundo", de 2004, remete ao poema de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, que se refere à máquina como uma espécie de essência da sabedoria metafísica do mundo. (Coleção Inhotim)
