“Koinonia”
Koinonia
(SKU. 10023)
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Date
2020 -
Technique
marble and wood -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 16.5 x 110.5 x 11 cm -
Edition
15 + 3PA -
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"Koinonía" is composed of 13 pieces of white marble whose inclinations are taken from the figures of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper".
The studies that were done showed that, three-dimensionally, the pieces would not be supported on their own axis of balance, which caused some of them to rotate, creating mutual support between the pieces. This support made me think of help and support, hence the Greek title koinonia, which in Portuguese means communion. Sharing the effort of each one to build for all. An ideal, certainly impossible, but which can exist as a goal to be pursued.
Walter Malta Tavares
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
