• Todas em uma - Carbono Galeria
  • Todas em uma - Carbono Galeria
  • Todas em uma - Carbono Galeria

Alexandre Mazza

“All in one”

(SKU. 1329)

  • Date

    2014

  • Technique

    wooden box, led monitor, mirrors and animation

  • Dimensions

    (H x W x D) 41 x 62 x 18 cm

  • Edition

    15

  • Comes with certificate of authenticity

The work originated when, one day, Alexandre Mazza spent more than an hour in a pedestrian crossing in downtown Rio de Janeiro and had the strong perception that all those people, regardless of who they were, had the same expression in their eyes: a kind of numbness or anesthesia. One of the artist's great interests is precisely the construction of experiences that captivate the spectator, that place him in captivity, that hijack his gaze and demand, in exchange for his freedom, the result of his ability to imagine. The work Todas em uma points precisely to the imprisonment of man behind the bars of the daily numb gaze. In some way, the silhouettes we see in the works function as our doubles and present specular power.

Biography

Alexandre Mazza - Carbono Galeria

Alexandre Mazza

b. 1969, Ponta Grossa (RS), Brazil | Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.
Alexandre Mazza's works focus on the study of the gaze. It is mainly through objects that the artist confronts his viewers with visual games: with what is seen and what is believed to be seen, with what is there and what is imagined to be there.
Nominated for the 2012 Pipa Prize, the artist has presented his work in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM RJ), the Hélio Oiticica Arts Center, and the Caixa Cultural of Rio de Janeiro, among others. His works are in several private and public collections, such as the MAM RJ and the Museum of Art of Rio (MAR).
With a musical background, he worked for 18 years as a bassist and composer. He became interested in light and electricity and, in 2008, the artist began to dedicate himself solely to what he calls “the multiplication of light”, using various materials, such as mirrors, glass, metals, lamps, acrylics and wood.
According to curator Bernardo Mosqueira: "One of Alexandre's greatest interests is faith in the image, the courage to believe in what we see, but which is beyond our own physiological capacity to see. The great subject of Mazza's production, therefore, is the exercise of the gaze as one of the body's thoughts. Here, we realize that the spectator is expected to be a creator of images during the experience with Mazza's works, allowing the imaginary to bewitch the image or its absence, generating enchantment through mystery."

Representative galleries

Luciana Caravello Art Gallery , Sao Paulo

Destaques da carreira

  • "Água viva" | obra da coleção do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
  • Detalhe de Detalhe de "Até onde vai a liberdade?" | obra da coleção do Museu de Arte do Rio.
  • "Somos sua luz" | 2019 | Luciana Caravello Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro