“Swap-swap”
Swap-swap
(SKU. 11241)
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Date
2022 -
Technique
felt on wooden chassis -
Dimensions
(H x W) 18 pieces measuring 16 x 32 x 2.4 cm each -
Edition
20 + 3PA -
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TROCA-TROCA, as the title suggests, is an interactive and experimental work. The work is composed of 18 pictorial modules made from the combination of 18 different colors of felt that, alternating between figure and background, operate as a fun chromatic game.
This is because the work is an offshoot of the artist's research on paintings made without the use of paint, which this time, appropriates the palette of felt colors available by the industry to create a polychromatic play between figure and background. The only rule is that the color of the fabric that covers the wooden frame and acts as the background of the painting in another frame, as well as the one that gives rise to the form that acts as a figure, must not be repeated.
In this way, shapes cut out in felt, suggesting the specter of a cucumber, are simply positioned horizontally on the covered surface of the painting, with the background of the painting remaining on it due to the force of attraction and repulsion that the electric charges exert on each other. The work is activated by the viewer through the manipulation of the figures on the backgrounds.
The repetitive aspect and the juxtaposition of the same form in different color fields gives a certain springiness to the work, in which cucumbers take on an appearance that is sometimes sensual, sometimes flying.
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
