Mario Camargo presents his first unprecedented exhibition at the Ibeu Art Gallery, since its post-pandemic reopening
It was a long wait for Mario Camargo, that had the individual postponed when the pandemic crisis imposed its norms, causing establishments to close their doors to the public. Two years later, the artist will inaugurate the first exhibition unpublished from the Ibeu Art Gallery, the Botanical Garden, since the beginning of the pandemic: “In the Field of Beetroot” opens on the day 9 November, às 17h, curated by Cesar Kiraly. On occasion, the Ibeu choir, will present some songs from their repertoire, at 19h.
The works appear like skins on the walls, supported by needles.
In about ten works presented, the ink will be replaced by industrial sewing. Shrinking and puckering motions will emerge and replace the color, pictorially, showing a multitude of holes and rips, such as plows, represented by industrial seams, where only the seeds need to germinate to reveal, in the future the colors.
“There are so many paths to this germination that we almost lose our breath. Color is not mobilized in the logic of pigments, but of dyeing; the integrity of the sewing is the protagonist until the last moment. In spite of all efforts, coloring does not overlap with the poetics of the sewn accident and abstraction is practiced impure, provoking the imagination to discover alternatives”, reveals artist Mario Camargo.
Like almost all children, Mario Camargo demonstrated, since always, interest in drawing. By invitation of a painter friend, made his first exhibition and never stopped. Esther Emilio Carlos, Ibeu art review, fell in love with his work and opened many doors: he even exhibited in Santiago de Chile and later in Paris. When he participated in the MAC art fair 2000, in Paris, was the only Brazilian present between 100 french artists. His way of painting drew attention at this event., performed directly on the floor, in the sun, using liquid acrylic paint. Mario interrupted the drying with a water jet and, in this quasi-archaeological search process, created his works. On occasion, Pierre Restany, french art critic, prophesied: “you will abandon the chassis and your paint will become the skin of the walls”. For years the artist lived with these words, that came true not long ago.
The exhibition in the curator's words
“They are not screens., there are no frames, nor sculptures, are entomologically attached by needles to the walls, you can see that the parts of which they are made oscillate in origin, more reach the artist's hand than the other way around, the seams have little suture, not always what they sew needs to be sewn, despite the femininity of the thread and needle, it is the non-functional use of industry and work, more than the affection with the cloth of the clothes.
If the world doesn't just become a beet field, ruining the poetics, it is from such an indeterminate address that its beauty is born, because it is necessary to feel, in the work, the topographies being contoured, accepted, to a certain extent, the establishment of harmonic sequences that, After, interrupted, are resumed, as in a sentence full of bets. The tubers sprout, other images germinate together, competitors, but they are not arbitrary, inhabit the context, like weeds. It is a dream, activate, in which the neighboring meanings make the others fascinating, not dodging them”.
Cesar Kiraly has been curator of the Ibeu Art Gallery since 2015, as well as professor of Aesthetics and Political Theory at UFF.
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“No Campo das Beterrabas” – Mario Camargo presents a solo show with unpublished works.
Curated By: Cesar Kiraly
Opening: 9 th November of 2022, the 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Visitation: from 10 November to 22 th December 2022
Operation: Wednesdays and Thursdays, the 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm; Fridays, from 12 pm to 6 pm
Local: Ibeu Art Gallery
Address: Maria Angelica Street, 168 – Botanical Garden – RJ
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