Roberto Alban Art Gallery presents from December 11th, for guests, and from the following day to the public the exhibit Maria Lynch – Roda Viva, with new works of the artist, born in Rio in 1981, one of the greatest names of her generation. The exhibit reunites 12 paintings in large format made by Lynch between 2013 and 2014, and a wall sculpture, in paint and fabrics, produced in 2014. She has lived in New York since 2013 for an artist-in-residence program at Residence Unlimited. She also has an exhibition scheduled at the Store Front for Art and Architecture.
The works presented at Roberto Alban Art Gallery are developments of a series started last year, with “absent women, or projections of idealized women amid or in contradiction to a dreamlike and playful world”, explains Lynch. She says that a part of her works was produced in New York, the paintings with black background, in which “she also looked for these ambiguities of the representation through colors, and a complete absence of human traces, as if the scene had been abandoned by someone”. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, with a critical text by Mario Gioia, an independent curator, graduated by ‘Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo’.
He observes that "Maria Lynch’s production is a foreign body in the complex weaving of the Brazilian contemporary art at the beginning of the 21st century, and this is a good thing. For the solo exhibit that is on at Roberto Alban Art Gallery, in Salvador, the Rio-born artist seems to unfold issues already drafted in the country’s history of art. In this line, we may elect the one perceived in ‘Baile à Fantasia’ (1913), by Rodolfo Chambelland (1879-1967), key work of our modernity, when form and content unite in an intricate way and highlight this spirit of time (at the time, the turn of the 1890’s to the 20th century) that carries, in a more latent or explicit way, melancholy and pessimism. These are feelings that, yes, will indicate that the carnival festivity portrayed has a date to end. It’s more the weight of an Ash Wednesday than the intoxication of the commemorative days. It’s as if the emptied figures in white of Lynch’s new paintings were contemporary re-editions of these old characters, only now staring a rhythmless dance, in fragmented, incomplete and non- fillable environments, even if involved in an alluring colorfulness."
The feminine universe is the central theme of the artist’s research, who comments: "from the excess that surrounds the feminine and the playful universe, I eliminate any trace of the masculine world, which is a way to highlight its presence in face of such absence”. “The angst and anxiety are never solved, these are the areas where my work is inserted, there’s an aversion to reality. I recreate a fiction, an allegory, an excess with fragments of the imaginary. The obliteration of the feminine identity is more than the desire of not being present in the world, but the wish to hide it. Thus I restitute a certain world, sublimating the reality in a particular logic. Abstract and erotic, between pleasure and guilt, in these paradoxes, I find freedom for the immanence, for the celebration of the delirium, of the dreamlike catharsis and the visual difference.""
MARIA LYNCH – SHORT BIO
Maria Lynch was born in 1981, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she lives and works. She graduated by the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, where she concluded her post-graduation and master’s degree in 2008. Among her main exhibitions are The Jerwood Drawing Prize which travelled through London and other cities in England. In the same year, she participated in Nova Arte Nova at CCBB, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In 2010, she was awarded the Marcantônio Vilaça Plastic Arts Funarte Award, participated in the 6th Curitiba Biennial, VentoSul, and in 2012 was invited to exhibit at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro and for an artist residency at Bordalo Pinheiro, Portugal. She was also invited to exhibit at Barbican Center during London Olympics, 2012. In 2013, she carried out a solo exhibition at Galeria Anita Schwartz and received an Itamaraty scholarship for an artist residency in Lima.
Maria Lynch’s works are part of important collections, such as Museu de Arte Contemporânea Niterói, Brazil, Centro Cultural Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection, Brazil/MAM-RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ministério das Relações Exteriores – Itamaraty Palace, and Committee for Olympic Fine Arts, in London.
ROBERTO ALBAN GALERIA
Founded in 1989 in the district of Graça in Salvador, the Roberto Alban Art Gallery opened its new headquarters in April 2013 in Ondina, an area of 1500²m especially designed by the Foguel, Reis e Sá Architecture Office to host contemporary art exhibitions, with a main room with a 8m headroom and an outdoor terrace for large sculptures and installations. Roberto Alban Art Gallery represents great names of the Brazilian contemporary art such as Alexandre Mury, Almandrade, Álvaro Seixas, Angelo Venosa, Betina Vaz Guimarães, Elizabeth Jobim, Gabriela Machado, Guilherme Dable, Gustavo Speridião, Josilton Tonm, Lara Viana, Liliane Dardot, Luiz Hermano, Marcelo Gandhi, Marcius Kaoru, Maria Lynch, Paulo Whitaker, Pedro David, Raul Mourão, Rodrigo Sassi, Rosa Bunchaft, Vinicius S.A and Willyams Martins.
Exhibition Maria Lynch – Roda viva
Opening: December 11th, 2014, at 8:00pm
Exhibition: December 12th, 2014 to January 12th, 2015
Free admission
From Monday to Friday, from 10:00am to 1:00pm and from 2:00pm to 7:00pm. Saturday, from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Roberto Alban Art Gallery
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