ARCOlisboa
19 – 22 May 2022
Stand G01 | Cordoaria Nacional, Lisboa

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils
Carlos Bunga
Céline Condorelli
Gabriela Albergaria
Gonçalo Barreiros
João Louro

Portuguese visual artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils (b. 1987) has developed a unique visual language based on the removal of the surface layers of walls and other media with nonconventional tools and techniques, establishing symbolic reflections on identity, the relationship of interdependence between people and the surrounding environment, and life in contemporary urban societies, as well as the impact of development, the passage of time, and material transformation.

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Carlos Bunga’s ephemeral structures question our relation with the space but at the same time awaken the fragile and transitory essence of the urban frameworks.

Through the employment of mass-produced materials, Carlos Bunga establishes a dialogue with the existing architectural spaces resulting in ephemeral structures creating a double effect: to rethink our experience in relation with the space itself, as well as arousing the transient and delicate nature of urban structures.

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Juxtapositions. A game of 576 pages, 12 figures and 9 colours, is a limited edition of an artist’s multiple and a book that becomes unique and different as each copy turns into an original artwork. Carlos Bunga proposes the juxtaposition of die cut, bound, white paper sheets, with loose sheets of different colours within a wooden box. The object-book becomes a game of variable geometry and, at the same time, a work of art that transforms each time the spectator, actor or reader, opens and changes the place of the sheets of 9 colours that can be placed between the changing gaps created by the shapes of the 12 geometric figures that appear successively, shifting as we advance in the process of viewing or reading.

Céline Condorelli investigates the perception of the space, in particular what she defines as “support structures”, that are often taken for granted, thus tend to appear almost invisible.

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Gabriela Albergaria views gardens as elaborated constructs, representational systems and descriptive mechanisms that epitomize a set of fictional beliefs that are employed to represent the natural world.

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Gonçalo Barreiros through his sculptures plays with the viewer, challenging the understanding of what is real and what is not.

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João Louro’s works are activated through the engagement of the one who sees and perceive, using cultural references which are both personal and generational.

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// Current exhibition at the gallery:

Dentro, Susanne S. D. Themlitz

12 May – 25 June 202

ONLINE VIEWING ROOM

// Exhibitions during ARCOlisboa:

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils

– Prisma, MAAT, Lisbon

Carlos Bunga
– Home, 2022. CAM em Movimento, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Estação fluvial do Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon

– 18 Maio 2022. Group exhibition, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon

– Europa Oxalá. Group exhibition, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 

– Interferências. Group exhibition, MAAT, Lisbon

– Meia-Noite. Parte 2. Anozero – Bienal de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra

Gabriela Albergaria
–  A natureza detesta linhas rectas, Museu Municipal de Tavira

Gonçalo Barreiros
– Tisanas. Infusões para tempos próximos. Centro de Arte e Cultura, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora

Susanne S. D. Themlitz
– Transformatório. Themlitz & Companhia, Arquipélago Centro de artes  contemporâneas, São Miguel – Açores

– Retrosaria Bijou, site-specific intervention, Lojas com História, Lisbon