CARLOS CARVALHO ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA (Lisbon, Portugal) Booth: A12
19 < 22 Set 2013 Matadero, Madrid, Spain
ARTISTS AT Summa Catarina Leitão
José Batista Marques José Bechara José Lourenço Luís Nobre Mónica de Miranda Manuel Vilariño
THE GALLERY CARLOS CARVALHO ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA
GALLERY ARTISTS Ricardo Angélico (1973, Angola) José Bechara (1957, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Daniel Blaufuks (1963, Lisbon, Portugal) Isabel Brison (1963, Lisbon, Portugal) Carla Cabanas (1979, Lisbon,Portugal) Manuel Caeiro (1975, Évora, Portugal) Catarina Campino (1975, Lisbon, Portugal) Mónica Capucho (1971, Lisbon, Portugal) Alexandra do Carmo (1966, Lisbon, Portugal) Paulo Catrica (1965, Lisbon, Portugal) Sandra Cinto (1968, Santo André, SP, Brazil) Roland Fischer (1957, Saarbrücken, Alemanha) Javier Núñez Gasco(1952, A Coruña, Spain) Susana Gaudêncio (1977, Lisbon, Portugal) Catarina Leitão (1970, Sttutgart, Germany) José Lourenço (1975,Lisbon, Portugal) José Batista Marques (1975, Lisbon, Portugal) Antía Moure (1981, Lugo, Espanha) Mónica de Miranda (1976, Porto, Portugal) Álvaro Negro (1973, Lalín, Espanha) Luís Nobre(1971,Lisbon, Portugal) Ana Luísa Ribeiro(1962, Lisbon, Portugal) Richard Schur(1971, Munich, Germany) Eurico Lino do Vale (1966, Porto, Portugal)
STAFF Director Carlos Carvalho tel. +(351)919 728 575 Deputy Director Manuela Oliveira Assistants Graça Santos PatrĂcia Barreira Marketeer Isabel Amaral Technical support Fernando Pereira
SCHEDULES The gallery is open from January the 2nd to December 31st with the following schedule: Septembre // July Monday - Friday: 10:00am - 7:30pm Saturday: 12:00am - 7:30pm August Monday - Friday: 10:00am - 7:30pm The gallery closes on holidays and summer break
CATARINA LEITÃO Cabinet, 2013 Mixed media, wood, aluminum, Velcro, fabric and paper 80x30x20 cm (closed)
Within Catarina Leitão’s body of work it is possible to observe a formal and conceptual coherence that we could say to be self-similar. Every single piece produced by the artist is somehow able to contain the totality of a research that traces the problematic border between natural and artificial and revolves around the concepts of hybridism, adaptability, survival strategies, body and landscape. With installation and drawing as her favored medias, Catarina Leitão’s work is firmly rooted in the specific language of sculpture. Investigations on the spatial possibilities of the page, Leitão’s drawings trigger a permanent tension between the two-dimensional and the tridimensional. This tension is unfolded in pieces such as Uplift (2008) or Invasive Species (2010), artworks fashioned as books that when opened occupy and transform the surrounding space. The idea of portability, pivotal within her body of work, is especially relevant as it is self-referential element to an artist who worked between Lisbon and New York for many years. Paper being one of her favorite media, operations like folding, packing, and closing acquire growing importance as other materials are coerced by the author’s skillful hand to emulate the first. As projected objects, image and color are usually represented in the page’s center or eluding its limits, but always defying the surface’s two-dimensionality – they are projects that puncture the thin membrane that separates fiction from reality. In Cabinet (2013) we can imagine that happening: a drawing that somehow managed to project itself into the third dimension, freeing itself from the paper’s limitations. Free, it is a contingent object: a sculpture undecided between a multiplicity of forms and shapes, of which the closed box represents its maximum potency. In its smaller volume (inert) it is a portable case, reminiscent
of works such as Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte en Valise or Robert Filliou’s Galerie Légitime. Here, portability entails the possibility of a bidirectional movement between the tri and two-dimensional (or real and fictional) spaces. Thus, Cabinet not only represents the embodiment of a drawing, but also the construction of a path between the two dimensions, one that is always open and bidirectional. Unique, Cabinet is the first piece of a series started in 2013 and signals a new research by Catarina Leitão, one centered in the concept of Portable Museum and its ambiguous relation with the institutional spaces of Contemporary Art. Nevertheless, it also appears as the continuation of the artist’s general research and in sequence with her previous series, Systema Naturæ, in which Leitão represents a fictitious botanical universe, hybrid species constructed by recombining vegetable and mechanical, natural and artificial elements. Cabinet is a hybrid body that reveals itself in space as an independent organism: adaptable and dynamic.
José Roseira, 2013
CATARINA LEITﾃグ, Cabinet, 2013, Mixed media, wood, aluminum, Velcro, fabric and paper, 80x30x20 cm (closed)
JOSÉ BATISTA MARQUES, O Chapéu de Chuva, Óleo s/ pasta de modelar, 89 x 13 x 6 cm
JOSÉ BECHARA, Particular, Oxidação de aço carbono s/ lona de camião, 80 x 120 cm
JOSÉ LOURENÇO, Happy Crowd / Just having fun, Impressão digital, 90 x 90 cm
LUĂ?S NOBRE, Quando um capricho se torna um desejo #1, Aguarela, grafite e tinta s/ papel, 93 x 80 cm
MANUEL VILARIﾃ前, Black Mountain, 2008, Hahnemﾃｼhle sobre aluminio, 60 x 80 cm
MANUEL VILARIﾃ前, Black Mountain, 2008, Hahnemﾃｼhle sobre aluminio, 60 x 80 cm
MÓNICA DE MIRANDA, Sem título (da série Erosion), Impressão digital com tintas de pigmento em papel semi-mate, 80 x 372 cm
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STAFF AT SUMMA Director: Carlos Carvalho tel. +(351)919 728 575