Between the days 22 and 26 November, DAN Galeria will present works by prominent contemporary artists such as Lygia Clark in the United Arab Emirates, Jesus Soto, Denise Milan, Franz Weismann e Elizabeth Dorazio
From 22 to 26 November, to 15ª Abu Dhabi Art meet 92 local and international galleries and for the first time in the history of fair of the United Arab Emirates will receive institutions from South America.
In his unprecedented participation, to AND Galeria will present a selection of contemporaries composed of Lygia Clark, Jesus Soto, Denise Milan, Franz Weissmann e Elizabeth Dorazio.
One of the most relevant names in contemporary art, Lygia Clark is also recognized as one of the most important artists between the modern and contemporary transition in Brazil. His work is cited whenever people talk about breaking paradigms. He began his career in painting and progressively replaced it with three-dimensional objects, with sensory experiences, creating interactive works.
The curatorship brings artists representing different techniques, like the Venezuelan Jesus Soto, considered one of the precursors of kinetic art and particularly famous for his “penetrables”, sculptures that people can walk around and interact with. Soto's research on topics such as mobility, vibration and dynamics will be at the DAN Galeria stand with works such as “Noir” and “Varios violetas”.
The brazilian art is represented in different and striking dimensions. Denise Milan, pioneer of the Public Art movement in Brazil, uses stone as a creative axis, carrying out works in public art areas, urban performance, sculpture, performing arts, Opera, poetry, print, video art, multimedia art. The “Quartz Codes” series will be on display at the Abu Dhabi Art fair.
One of the main Brazilian references in sculpture, Franz Weissmann works on the composition of massive figures, starting to recreate them in abstract language, as in the series “Neoconcrete Column”. Weissmann was influenced by Rodin's sculptural works, Brancusi by Henry Moore. Participated with the painter Alberto da Veiga Guignard, of the establishment of the first modern art school in the city of Belo Horizonte, the Municipal School of Fine Arts.
DAN Galeria's selection brings diverse visual cultures and popular techniques, such as the productions of Elizabeth Dorazio, artist born in Minas Gerais, who works between Brazil, UAE and Germany. With drawings, collages and installations, she investigates the mysteries of human relationships with nature and the cosmos, being this, the essence of your work.
About Denise Milan
Denise Milan was born in São Paulo, 1954. Sculptor and contemporary artist in different media, also works with experts in science and technology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, music has works and installations exhibited in various national and international institutions and spaces. She uses the stone as her creative axis, performs works in the areas of public art, urban performance, sculpture, performing arts, Opera, poetry, print, video art and multimedia art.
Pioneer of the Public Art movement in Brazil is an activist in its dissemination in her country and internationally. In Brazil, produced works in which he included performance :U Ura Muta Uê em (Bethlehem, Pará), Redemption of Pelourinho (Salvador, Bahia), Sections of the World (São Paulo, Museum
of Modern Art), loved (São Paulo, SESC), not America (Brasilia, CCBB – Cultural Center of the Bank of Brazil). Public sculptures in São Paulo are: Drusa (Anhangabaú); Womb of Life (subway clinics); A Hole in Space (Museum of contemporary art); Pallas Athens (Campus da USP); Healing Times (Hospital Albert Einstein) of Planitude (Instituto Fleury), Brasilis Stone (Nature).
About Elizabeth Dorazio
The artist was born and raised in Araguari, in the interior of Brazil. Works between Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and Germany. His current work explores diverse visual cultures and popular techniques.
Elizabeth Dorazio studied Visual Arts at Fundação Escola Guignard in Belo Horizonte and art history with Rodrigo Naves, one of the main Brazilian art teachers and critics. He specialized in ancient Italian techniques at the Institute of Art and Restoration (Institute for Art and Restoration) in Florence, Italy. Later, studied at the Abendschule,Staedelschule in Germany.
Elizabeth Dorazio's works focus on different media and installations. His long artistic career points to a fascination with instability, by changing surfaces, the cosmic, the organic, cell phone and skin.
While remaining faithful to a certain technical classicism (drawing, engraving, the use of tempering etc.), also uses unconventional materials (x-ray fragments, straw from India and various objects). Your work is created throughout the process; at your reception, they appear interactive. The artist has already exercised her curatorial skills in the Existenzielle Korrespondenzen exhibitions (Frankfurt/São Paulo,2016), Blue Connection (Frankfurt/São Paulo/Sorocaba, 2010-11) e Swiss 9(Frankfurt, 2008).
About Lygia Clark
Painter and sculptor, At a young age, the artist already showed his talent 1947 and began an artistic apprenticeship with Burle Marx. In 1952 traveled to Paris, where he studied with Léger, Arpad Szenes and Dobrinsky. He exhibited at the Institut Endoplastique de Paris and at the Ministry of Education and Health, in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1954 joined the Front Group. Between 1954 and 1958 produced the Modulated Surfaces and Counter-Reliefs series, being one of the founders of Neoconcretism, in 1959. Progressively replaced painting with three-dimensional objects and sensory experiences, creating interactive works such as those in the Animals series, from 1960.
About Jesus Soto
Jesus Rafael Soto was born in 1923 in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela and died in 2005, Paris. Sculptor and painter. In your adolescence, worked as a commercial artist, painting posters for local theaters. In 1942, won a scholarship to study at the Caracas School of Plastic Arts, where he met Carlos Cruz-Díez and Alejandro Otero. Due to contact with a cubist painting by Georges Braque, became interested in geometric forms of expression.
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Around 1951, the Venezuelan began exhibiting works that involved an element of vibration, through the repetition of formal elements. For him, the use of repetition was a way to free oneself from the formal concepts of traditional art, which was linked to figurative art. He thought that true abstract art could only be transfigured through the performance of movement. In optical repeats, developed high-relief works, which earned him the status of painter and sculptor.
About Franz Weissmann
Diverging from the teaching methods of the National School of Fine Arts, Franz Weissmann, exchanges the academy for the studio of Polish sculptor August Zamoyski, where remained between 1942
and 1944. In 1945, living in Belo Horizonte and influenced by Rodin's sculptural works, Brancusi by Henry Moore, Weissmann explores the composition of massive figures, starting to recreate them in abstract language.
The power of such incursions into essential volume and form are updated in the work Cubo Vazado (1951), that Weissmann submits to the selection of the 1st São Paulo Biennial. Already circumscribed in Concretism, structural rigor and subtle volumetric suggestions, but well-defined hollow cubes reveal what Franz Weissmann calls “active void”, which can be understood as the presentification of space by the vibration between matter and void that, in a dialectical relationship, affirm each other in harmonious opposition.
About Dan Gallery
The And Gallery It was founded in 1972, in São Paulo, by Gláucia and Peter Cohn. In the first years of activity, the gallery focused on Brazilian modern art, featuring works by important artists from the modernist movement of 1920, such as Di Cavalcanti, Antonio Gomide, Ismael Nery, Tarsila do Amaral among others.
Even in the first years of operation, artists like Alfredo Volpi, Cícero Dias, Antonio Bandeira and Yolanda Mohalyi were incorporated into the group represented by the gallery that, over the last few decades, also expanded to international production and contemporary art.
The contemporary art department was created in 1985 by Flavio Cohn, son of the founding couple. Later, his brother Ulisses Cohn also joined the board of directors of And. Combining historical research and tuning with the international market, over the past twenty years the gallery has exhibited works by Lygia Clark, Lothar Charoux, Luiz Sacilotto, Goncalo Ivo, Ascânio MMM, Macaparana, Sérgio Fingermann and international artists like Sol LeWitt, Anthony Tapias, Jesus Soto, Cesar Paternosto, Eduardo Stupia, Adolfo Estrada, Knob Ferro, Ian Davenport, Max Bill, Joseph Albers, besides the British Tony Cragg, Kenneth Martin e Mary Martin.
The and Galeria most recently added to your selection, important concrete artists: Francis Nephew, François Morellet and Getúlio Alviani, as well as the historic abstract geometric artists: Sandu Darie, Salvador Corratge, Wilfredo Arcay and Dolores Soldevilla, just to mention some of the Cubans from the group Los Once (The Eleven).
Brazilian photographer Cristiano Mascaro; the artists José Spaniol and Teodoro Dias (Brasil); the international ones, Tony Cragg (G. Brittany), Lab [AU] (Belgium) e Young Oh (Korea), joined the gallery's Contemporary Art department. The and Galeria has always had the purpose of highlighting Brazilian artists and movements since the beginning of the 1990s. 1920 until today. At the same time, maintains a close relationship with international artists, since artistic movements historically intertwine and dialogue with each other without borders.
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Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2023
Date: 22 to 26 November
Local: Manarat Al Saadiyat, United Arab Emirates
www.dangaleria.com.br
