“Untitled”
Untitled
(SKU. 7285)
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Date
2018 -
Technique
digital printing on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth 305g -
Dimensions
(H x W) 112 x 100 cm -
Edition
10 + 3PA -
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Berliner's works portray a state of uncertainty, in which the connections between elements on the same canvas portray the way information is absorbed over the years and how memory reorganizes, connects and transforms them.
Residues of culture and human relationships are reconfigured through personal narratives, where the artist cites “A geriatric diaper rug with an animal head inside out once inhabited my workplace. A photograph of a still life constructed as a starting point for a painting that didn’t work. A wasp taken from a video ripping the head off a green caterpillar. Parts of a sculpture built and destroyed. Bodies in pieces. Fragments of paint and drawings. The mapping of the things I found and lost over the last decade.”
Biography
Eduardo Berliner
With a degree in industrial design from PUC-Rio and a master's degree in typographic design from the University of Reading (UK), Eduardo Berliner began his artistic training in 1998, with courses taught by Charles Watson.
In his work process, Eduardo Berliner sees drawing as an independent work, and often also as an initial step towards painting, as the materialization and mapping of his original ideas. When
Presented in the same space, they function as a guide to the group of paintings, not explaining but strengthening the complex associations between the works, or in the words of the artist himself: “the group of drawings can be thought of as a subconscious of the paintings; they are entry points, but they do not indicate where the exit is”. The accumulation of this material opens up a broad and nebulous area of interest, which will pave the way for the paintings.
The starting point for his paintings varies; sometimes Berliner starts with a simple line drawing based on memories, while at other times the artist feels the need to work for longer before reaching the canvas, evolving through photographs, short videos, his own relationship with the materials in the studio, drawings, watercolors, and constructing objects and scenes. Berliner’s paintings portray a state of uncertainty and doubt, in which the connection between elements on the same canvas as well as between the works themselves echoes the way information is absorbed over the years and how memory reorganizes, connects, and transforms things, even creating new relationships that were not initially present. Berliner states that his intention is not to determine a specific meaning for each work or even for the whole, but to create a space to analyze the complexity of the relationships and the distortions produced in our memories.
He participated in the 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012) and had solo exhibitions at the CCBB (RJ/2013) and in 2014 he exhibited at Casa Daros, RJ during the semester dedicated to painting. In 2015 he presented the solo exhibition A presença da Ausência, at the Eva Klabin Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and participated in the exhibitions "E se quebram as lentes empoeiradas?", at the Tomie Ohtake Institute; "Pangaea II", at the Saatchi Gallery in London; "Dark Mirror - Latin American Art since 1968", Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, Germany; and "Projeto Respiração", Eva Klabin Foundation, Rio de Janeiro. In 2016, he had his second solo exhibition at Casa Triângulo and participated in the exhibition "The Color of Brazil", MAR-Museu de Arte do Rio. In December 2017, he exhibited the collective work, "Projeto Cavalo: Quadrivium 8 patas" (Jacarandá, Rio de Janeiro). Recently, he had a solo exhibition, "A Forma dos restos", at Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
He won the Marcantonio Vilaça award in 2010 and was a finalist for the PIPA award in 2011.
Representative galleries
Triangle House , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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2012 | 30a Bienal de São Paulo
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Mostra individual | 2013 | Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
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"Pinturas" | 2014 | Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro | Foto: Edouard Fraipont
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"E se quebrarem as lentes empoeiradas?" | 2015 | Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, SP
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"Corpo em Muda" | 2016 | Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, SP
