• O lugar onde a gente morava era uma ilha - Carbono Galeria
  • O lugar onde a gente morava era uma ilha - Carbono Galeria
  • O lugar onde a gente morava era uma ilha - Carbono Galeria
  • O lugar onde a gente morava era uma ilha - Carbono Galeria

Bettina Vaz Guimarães

“The place where we lived was an island”

(SKU. 8728)

  • Date

    2020

  • Technique

    acrylic paint on MDF

  • Dimensions

    (H x W x D) 2 cubes measuring 15.5 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm each

  • Edition

    10 + 2PA

  • Comes with certificate of authenticity

"This project began in mid-2019 while I was in Lisbon. I thought of a diptych because I wanted to convey the idea of ​​a couple. A couple who lived together but were different from each other and had their own particularities. Initially, this edition was going to be produced using silk screen printing, where there was a limited number of colors that could be applied to each side of the cubes.

In my work, I research colors, their interactions with their different shades and combinations. With the period of social isolation caused by Covid-19, I felt like taking care of the production and painting of the work, and so the entire edition was hand-painted, one by one, by me. Although they are based on the same image, there are subtle differences between each of the cubes. By painting, I was able to increase the number of color shades and this gave me much more freedom.

It was very interesting to produce this edition, it had something playful and, mainly, it brought back memories of games when I was a child. I felt like I was in a factory/island producing a set of cubes. I worked as if on an assembly line, which made production easier and I was moved to see all those objects under construction on my workbench being created, being born. Like twins, they are not identical, they have a small difference that makes them similar but unique."

Bettina Vaz Guimarães

Biography

Bettina Vaz Guimarães - Carbono Galeria

Bettina Vaz Guimarães

b. 1961 | Lives and works between São Paulo (SP), Brazil and Lisbon, Portugal.

Graduated in 1982 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of FAAP in Visual Communication. She was mentored by artists Paulo Whitaker and since 2005 has been a member of the Ateliê Fidalga Group with the participation of Sandra Cinto and Albano Afonso. She taught workshops in 2012 and 2015, "Intercambio de Poeticas Contemporâneas” (Interchange of Contemporary Poetics). - Funarte Visual Art Workshops project in Capivari and  “After all, what is contemporary in Art? - An introduction to the visual arts of our time” in Florianópolis. She was a volunteer art teacher at the “O VISCONDE” Child and Adolescent Support Center, where she developed work with children aged 5 to 17 during the years 2000 and 2001. From 2014 to 2017, she lived in New York and developed her painting work on canvas and paper in a collective studio in the Lower East Side. She did a residency in 2016 and 2017 at Hangar Artistic Research Center in Lisbon .

The production is focused on painting, drawing, installations and site specific. The research that has been developing is on color, tones and collage.

Some of the main exhibitions are: "Laboratory of Colors", National Museum of Science and Natural History of Lisbon; "Heterotopic Cartographies or Processes for the Construction of New Diagrams", Curated by Andrés Hernández - Sancovsky Gallery - São Paulo; "About Change", curated by Marina Galvani - Washington, DC. USA; "Virtual Reality and Abstract Reality (after Mondrian)", curated by Maria Fatima Lambert - Porto Portugal; "Abstracion", Fernando Pradilla Gallery - Madrid; Exhibition Program FUNARTE Spaces of Visual Arts São Paulo; International Biennial of La Paz Annual Exhibition Program of the São Paulo Cultural Center; "Atelie Fidalga", Paço das Artes; Cerveira Biennial - Vila Nova de Cerveira - Portugal; 12th Bahia Salon - Museum of Modern Art of Bahia.

Representative galleries

Cistern Gallery , Lisbon

Myrine Vlavianos Contemporary Art , Florianópolis

Roberto Alban Galeria , Salvador

Destaques da carreira

  • 2009 | Funarte, São Paulo, SP
  • 2011| Galeria Zipper, São Paulo, SP
  • "Compartimentos" | 2012 | Galeria Progetti, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
  • "Casúlo" | 2013 | Sala de Projetos Fidalga, São Paulo, SP
  • "Realidade virtual e realidade abstrata (after Mondrian)" | 2014 | Quase Galeria, Porto, Portugal
  • "Cartografias heterotópicas ou processos para a construção de novos diagramas" | 2016 | Galeria Sancovsky, São Paulo, SP