“Words are transparent bodies looking for a rainbow”
Words are transparent bodies looking for a rainbow
(SKU. 9507)
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Date
2020 -
Technique
resin -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 15 x 250 x 0.8 cm -
Edition
15 + 1PA -
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In “Words are transparent bodies in search of a rainbow”, a translucent object that suggests a solidified state from an initially liquid materiality, the implication of the movement undertaken by the Word in its search for color indicates the enunciation of an act of creation, the moment of birth of the poetics contained in the experience of that instant.
The work, conceived from a solo exhibition at the Vale Museum in 2012, is in line with the idea of flow that permeates the artist's work. At the time, the floor of one of the rooms simulated a reflecting pool on which visitors could walk. The liquid appearance incorporated throughout the space provided the visitor with an immersive and fusional experience. Still in the same space, the artist created drawings with phrases and words that floated like transparent bodies amidst the fluid and diffuse reality of the exhibition.
Biography
Shirley Paes Leme
Shirley Paes Leme's work is made through a memorial charge with the rescue of rural life by using farm objects, mainly from the farm kitchen (fire, soot, smoke, table) and from the countryside (branches, clay, banana tree), places where the artist was born and lived. Shirley's production uses diverse forms of expression and includes installation, video, drawing, sculpture and engraving. Her interest lies in what the artist herself called the “residues of the world” - repetition and singularity, banality and preciousness, familiarity and strangeness - the languages she uses are just a way of dealing with these residues.
Shirley taught and taught literacy to the workers on the farm where she was born at the age of nine, a fact that has influenced her work to this day and justifies her decision to continue teaching. In 1983, the artist received a scholarship and moved to the United States. During this time, she came into contact with materials and concepts that were still unknown in Brazil and became familiar with the appropriation and manipulation of objects in art. The use of everyday objects such as branches, threads and strings was inserted in a three-dimensional way and with little manipulation, an action that was unusual for Brazilian artists at the time.
In the 1990s, the artist held important exhibitions in countries such as Germany, France, Puerto Rico, Israel and Spain, and in several Brazilian states, such as Rio de Janeiro, Pará, Paraná and Paraíba. This enabled Shirley's work to take the first step towards her first participation in international biennials, such as the "VIII Polish Biennial" (as a representative of Brazil), in Warsaw, in 1995; and as the only Brazilian at the "XV International Biennial of Lausanne", in Switzerland, in 1992. In 1996, she had a solo exhibition at the Debret Gallery, in Paris. "Deux Artistes Brasiliense" consisted of several sculptures made of twigs exhibited together with sculptures by Amilcar de Castro, her professor in her undergraduate studies in fine arts at UFMG, in Minas Gerais. The artist reports that Amilcar always encouraged her to work with lines, whether expressed through drawing, sculpture, installation, etc.
Among his most recent solo exhibitions are: "Parênteses : ( )", at the Bolsa de Arte Gallery, Porto Alegre, 2016; "When Attitudes (trans)form", at the Minas Cultural Center Gallery, Belo Horizonte, 2015; "Daily Microhistories", at the Bolsa de Arte Gallery, São Paulo, 2014; "Silent and Uncertain", at Matias Brotas Contemporary Art, Vitória, 2012; "Água Viva", Museu Vale, Vitória, 2012; "Uncertain limit", at the Bolsa de Arte Gallery, Porto Alegre, 2012, among others. And among the group exhibitions, the following stand out: "Natureza Franciscana", MAM-SP, 2016; "X Mercosul Biennial", Porto Alegre, 2015; "InterAktion", Sacrow Kunstausstellung, Potsdam-Sacrow, Germany, 2015; "Elective Affections", Gallery of the Minas Cultural Center, Belo Horizonte, 2014; "Examples to follow!", Capilla del Arte, Puebla, Mexico, 2013; "The Artist as Author / The Artist as Editor", Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo - MAC/USP, 2013,2014; among others.
His work is part of important collections in Brazil and abroad, such as: MAM-SP; National Museum in Aalborg, Denmark; Pinacoteca of the city of São Paulo; Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paulo; Gilberto Chateaubriand, Rio de Janeiro; Bernardo Paz, Inhotim, Minas Gerais; Museum of Art of Brasília, Brasília; among others. His most recent participation was in the exhibition “Natureza Franciscana” (Franciscan Nature) on display until May 6 at MAM-SP.
Representative galleries
Raquel Arnaud Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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"Deux Artistes Brasiliense" | 1996 | Galeria Debret,Paris, França
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"Quando atitudes (trans)formam" | 2014 | Galeria de Arte do Centro Cultural Minas, Belo Horizonte, MG
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"Natureza Franciscana" | 2016 | Museu de arte moderna de São Paulo - MAM SP
