Exhibition of the plastic artist proposes the debate on the natural wealth of Brazil in the year of the bicentennial of Independence
The 23 works will be exhibited at the Mário de Andrade Library in 30 from July to 28 August
In the year that Brazil completes 200 years of independence, the plastic artist Alex Flemming presents its new exhibition in São Paulo: ALEX FLEMMING: The Mine Map.
From 30 July, to Mário de Andrade library receives the series of works made in wooden plates, cropped in Brazil map format, studded with native stones like topaz, amethyst, lemons, opal, rolling stones, peridots, rubility e kunzitas, composing a visual cartography that sustains a profound aesthetic and political power.
The exhibition extols the wealth and beauty generated in our soil and invites reflection on its use.: “My proposal with these works is to discuss the riches of Brazil, the form of extraction and its bad distribution. Since our colonization, extractivism generates fortunes that go into the pockets of a minority, widening the inequality of the population”, explica Flemming.
The exhibition also carries a symbolic load of belonging and displacement that the maps bring out., which undoubtedly dialogues a lot with Alex Flemming – an artist who divides his time between Brazil, country of origin, and Germany, where do you live since 1991.
Flemming is a multimedia artist who moves through painting, engraving, installation, drawing, collage, sculptures, photography and objects, focusing on “painting on non-traditional surfaces” as the artist himself defines.
He was a professor at the Kunstakademie in Oslo, in Norway, between 1993 and 1994 and 1998 produces his most impactful public work, at Sumaré Metro station in São Paulo, with 44 poetry covered glass portraits. In 2016 opens more 16 stained glass portraits at the Mário de Andrade Library, also in São Paulo.
The ALEX FLEMING exhibition: the Mine Map will have a vernissage open to the public on 30 July(Saturday) às 11h, and can be visited until 28 August from 11 am to 6 pm.
About Alex Flemming
Born in São Paulo, the artist resides in Germany since 1991. He studied Architecture at FAU-USP and attended the Open Film Course at Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), in São Paulo, between 1972 and 1974.
In the 1970, made short films and participated in numerous film festivals. In 1981, moves to New York, where he stayed for two years and developed a project at the Pratt Institute, with Fulbright Foundation Scholarship.
From the years 1990, performs installations in exhibition spaces (MASP and XXI São Paulo International Biennial) using stuffed animals painted in strong metallic colors, thus inaugurating a long-lasting series of paintings on non-traditional surfaces. Later, he starts using his own clothes as material., furniture, utility objects and computers. Flemming also creates silhouettes of planes made from Persian carpets in the Flying Carpets series and tackles the dilemmas of war in oversized photographs in the Body-Builders series., just to name a few of his work fronts in 40 years working as an artist.
In 2002, Alex Flemming books are published, by Edusp, organized by Ana Mae Barbosa, with texts by several specialists in visual arts; Alex Flemming, a Poetics…, by Katia Canton, by Editora Metalivros; and, in 2005, the book alex flemming – art and history, by Roseli Ventrella and Valeria de Souza, by Editora Moderna. In 2006 Cosac publisher & Naif publishes Alex Flemming with text and interviews produced by journalist and curator Angélica de Moraes.
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In 2016 has its first retrospective at MAC-USP curated by Mayra Laudanna at Retrospective exhibition and book Alex Flemming edited by Martins Fontes. In 2017 exposes to Anaconda series at the Ema Gordon Klabin Foundation, and from December 2017 to February 2018 has its second retrospective – of CORpo e Alma – at the Palace of Arts in Belo Horizonte, curated by Henrique Luz. When Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope Leo III 2019, exposes to Ecce Homo series na Galeria Kogan Amaro, in São Paulo, and the Apokalypse series in a large solo exhibition at the Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz in Berlin (Germany).
In 2020, with the pandemic, Alex Flemming, in an action with Companhia do Metrô de São Paulo re-signifies its best-known public work, Sumaré Metro station. To raise awareness of the use of masks in public spaces, the artist applies pentagonal shapes in vibrant colors that refer to masks over the well-known portraits of the season..
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Date: from 30 from July to 28 August 2022
Time: from 11:00 to 6:00 pm
Local: Mário de Andrade library
Address: Consolation Street, 94 – Republic – São Paulo – SP – Brazil
Free Entry