“Cut out shape #03”
Cut out shape #03
(SKU. 11204)
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Date
1999 -
Technique
metal engraving -
Dimensions
(H x W) 56 x 50 cm -
Edition
100 -
Comes with certificate of authenticity
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The metal engraving produced by Tomie Ohtake takes on a sculptural form when cut out and mounted on an acrylic sandwich.
*Frame not included in the sales price.
Biography
Tomie Ohtake
Tomie Ohtake's work as a painter, sculptor and engraver positions her as an icon of contemporary Brazilian art. Her extensive resume includes more than fifteen participations in biennials around the world, 26 awards and 31 sculptures in public spaces in Brazil.
Tomie was born in Kyoto, Japan, and came to Brazil at the age of 23. However, she only began her artistic production around the age of forty, when she joined the Seibi Group, which also included Manabu Mabe. She briefly developed figurative paintings and soon began creating large-format abstract canvases that would define her career based on research based on chromatic fields, planes and transparencies. Oriental calligraphy, geometric shapes and the study of spatiality would also permeate her work. In 1957, she had her first solo exhibition at MAM – São Paulo Museum of Modern Art. In the early 1960s, she developed a series of “blind paintings”, in which she painted blindfolded and intended to counter the excessive visuality and rationality of the art produced at that time. Later in that decade, she expanded her technical repertoire when she began working with silkscreen printing, lithography and metal engraving. In 1972, he exhibited his lithographs at the Venice Biennale alongside Robert Rauschenberg. From the 1970s onwards, he began to delve deeper into his pictorial studies, while also embarking on three-dimensional investigations.
Among the sculptures she created in public spaces is the sculpture on Avenida 23 de Maio in São Paulo, in which she makes a connection between the lines of the sculpture and the lanes of the avenue. This was one of the first large-scale sculptures created by Tomie, dated 1988 and measuring 40 meters long. Her important works in public spaces include the "Labareda" at the entrance to the Ibirapuera Auditorium, the "Untitled" sculpture at Guarulhos International Airport, the "Estrela do Mar" which was installed in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, among others.
Representative galleries
Nara Roesler Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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Obra icônica da artista na Avenida 23 de Maio em São Paulo, SP. Cada estrutura representa uma faixa da avenida.
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Escultura de Tomie Ohtake no interior do Auditório do Ibirapuera, em São Paulo, SP. O projeto do edifício é de Oscar Niemeyer.
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Última exposição individual da artista na Galeria Nara Roesler, em 2013.
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Vista da exposição retrospectiva no Instituto Tomie Ohtake, em 2012.
