“Dry painting”
Dry painting
(SKU. 13746)
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Date
2024 -
Technique
felt on chassis -
Dimensions
(H x W) 7 pieces measuring between 15 x 20 cm and 24 x 18 cm -
Edition
20 + 3PA -
Comes with certificate of authenticity
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"Dry Paintings" or "Dry Painting" is the new multiple proposed by Estela Sokol for Carbono Galeria.
In this series, Estela continues her research into expanded painting, more precisely painting work carried out without the use of paint.
These are two-dimensional works that discuss color through the appropriation of industrial materials. The artist's manipulation shifts the use of such raw materials, bringing them closer to the world of art and the tradition of painting.
Typically, Sokol juxtaposes or superimposes different layers of plastics, vinyls or fabrics, creating new colors and tones, in addition to those offered by the industry.
The ironic title "Dry Painting", in addition to proposing a pun on the term "dry wash", makes explicit the artist's practice of subverting the use of materials and procedures in search of a new status for color in contemporary times.
Dry Paintings or Dry Painting is made up of seven independent "little paintings", made from different combinations of colored felt, stretched over a wooden frame.
The work is accompanied by a certificate and assembly suggestions. However, the idea is that the work be accommodated in the most comfortable way possible in the environment, since the paintings are autonomous, allowing multiple combinations.
Biography
Estela Sokol
With color and light as the central elements of her research, the artist transforms the use of materials to bring the pictorial reasoning of sculptures and objects closer together. In her works, she uses different materials, such as beeswax, resin, foam, pigment, stone, paraffin, concrete, brass, wood, copper, graphite, fabrics and various plastics, ceramics, among others. The artist combines raw materials and painting procedures such as encaustic, dyeing, glazes, spray paints and enamels, insisting on seeking a new status for color.
Different nuances and changes in tone are recurrent in the artist's work and processes, and are most clearly seen in her public art and natural interventions, as well as in her paintings made without the use of paint. In these works, through the manipulation of different sheets of plastic, felt, photoluminescent fabrics and other synthetic materials, the colors and tones are created by superimposing layers of different materials from the industrial palette (translucent and/or opaque), which, stretched over wooden frames, create new hues and propose a dialogue with the tradition of painting and the history of art.
In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at the Taipa Museum (Macau, China), Gallery 32 (London, England), Paço das Artes (São Paulo, Brazil), Maria Antonia University Center (São Paulo, Brazil), Galerie Wuensch (Linz, Austria), Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil), among others. He has participated in group exhibitions, such as: “Gasträume Public Art” (Zurich, Switzerland); “13th Mercosul Biennial” (Porto Alegre, Brazil); “Prometheus Fecit”, at the Soares dos Reis National Museum (Porto, Portugal); “Beyond the Point and the Line”, at Mac Usp (São Paulo, Brazil); “3rd Biennial Del Fin Del Mundo” (Ushuaia, Argentina); “16th Cerveira Biennial” (Cerveira, Portugal); “Light Art Biennale” (Linz, Austria); “Bradesco Artrio Urban Interventions”, at the Museum of the Republic (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); “International Three-Dimensional Biennial”, at the National Historical Museum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and “New Art Nova”, at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil).
Destaques da carreira
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Contraforte | Largo da Batata, São Paulo. Brasil. Mostra 3M | 2018 | Foto André Velozo
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Greta Garbo | Largo da Batata, São Paulo, Brasil. 2018 | foto: Rubens Azevedo
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Polarlicht series | 2011 | Upper Austria Polarlicht series | 2011 | Upper Austria
