Frieze London 2023
GALERIA VERA CORTÊS
Booth G20
11 – 15 October Carlos Bunga Céline Condorelli Daniel Gustav Cramer Gonçalo Barreiros Joana Escoval John Wood and Paul Harrison
CARLOS BUNGA (b. 1976 Porto)
Carlos Bunga is currently participating in the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible, curated by Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes and Manuel Borja-Villel.
He creates process-oriented works in various formats: sculptures, paintings, drawings, performances, video, and above all in situ installations, that refer to and intervene in their immediate architectural surroundings.
While often using ordinary, unassuming materials such as packing cardboard and adhesive tape, Bunga’s work involves a highly developed degree of aesthetic care and delicacy, as well as a conceptual complexity derived from the inter-relationship between doing and undoing, between unmaking and remaking, between the micro and the macro, between investigation and conclusion. Straddling the divide between sculpture and painting, Bunga’s deceptively delicate works are characterized by an intense study of the combination of color and materiality, while at the same time emphasize the performative aspect of the creative act. Bunga’s works on paper, which are closely related to his sculptures and installations, often involve overlays, whether of compositional elements in the paintings or sheets of translucent paper in the drawings. The analytic/descriptive result, like a photographic double-exposure, mimics the dual experience of memory and imagination underlying the sculpture.
Carlos Bunga has had solo shows at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota (2023); Bombas Gens, Valencia (2023); Palacio de Cristal – Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2022); Secession, Wien (2021); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020); MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2020); Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (2019); MAAT – Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisbon (2019); Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2018); MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2015), among others. More info
Carlos Bunga, Alfombra #1, 2023. Latex, caster and glue on rug. 161 x 230 x 5 cm. Unique
CÉLINE CONDORELLI
(b. 1974)
Céline Condorelli is the National Gallery’s 2023 Artist in Residence at The National Gallery, London.
Condorelli has produced an extensive body of work that develops different possibilities for living and working together, exploring notions like public space, the commons, institutions, fictions and articulation. Condorelli’s practice is committed to a continuous exploration of the less explicit elements that compose the structures through which individuals encounter with the world — be they cultural, economic, material, social or political (the apparatuses of visibility that are often taken for granted, and which the artist describes as “supporting structures”). 2023 National Gallery Artist in Residence – Céline Condorelli: Pentimenti (The Corrections) Online Viewing Room
Céline Condorelli
Pentimenti (2023)
This series reveals and invents the background and framing devices in 15th century European paintings as objects of attention to be foregrounded. Richly coloured or patterned hanging textiles display and obscure, attached to mysterious invisible structures, like theatre curtains giving the rhythm of what is about to start or end.
Céline Condorelli, Pentimenti (NG0687), 2023. Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. 62.1 x 39 cm. Ed. 2 + AP
DANIEL GUSTAV CRAMER (b. 1975, Dusseldorf)
Daniel Gustav Cramer’s new solo exhibition Objects is on view at GALERIA VERA CORTÊS until November 4.
Daniel Gustav Cramer is known best for his sparse aesthetic in multiple mediums. An ambitious ongoing series, simply titled “Works” (begun 2009), is comprised of a variegated range of work including film, sculptures, installations, and photography. In many of these, he seeks out unspectacular scenes, but ones that both have a quality of vastness and intimate or personal experience—in other words, how things can appear distant and close all at once. Subjects have included lone boat journeys, vast and foggy mountain ranges, and dense forests with traces of human presence. He treats individual pieces as series unto themselves by composing a sequence of images illustrating lapses in time. Cramer is also interested in the idea of memory and the infinite, which he explores via books and archives as medium and subject. More info
Daniel Gustav Cramer, LXXXIII, 2022. Found cast iron sphere, metal tripod, wire, burnished. 66 x 66 x 76 cm, ø 14 cm. Unique
Since the beginning of his career, Barreiros has committed himself to sculpture. In his pieces, the dimensions of chance, time, disappointment, imperfection and imponderability shape a conception of sculpture as an unstable, uncertain realm. Sculpture is a possibility, a pause, an accident. Each piece is the outcome of a long process of creation and research, they are about time, they define a condition. Perhaps the most determining feature of his practice is the tendency to take the exhibition space as a stage and to make the pieces agents that are often disturbing, sarcastic, comic or exasperating. Using a wide variety of expedients and technical resources, the artist has produced a very diverse body of works, sometimes presenting extremely simple pieces, using a drawing, a sound, a noise, a word, a hum, or a metallic trill, but also the instability of a balance, a difference in scale or proportion, the absence of colour. Much of the singularity of Gonçalo Barreiros’ work seems to lie in the way in which he prepares the double movement that his works set in motion. Revealing a sophisticated domain of the mechanics of subversion, irony and incongruity, his works confront the spectator with his most intimate and inescapable reactions, and at the same time with the prejudices, censures and violence that govern many of our common values. The work triggers a set of much more discreet reflections that focus on the spectator himself, his convictions and his idiosyncrasies, but also on this space of supposed consensus where the friendly rules and protocols exist and where the processes of identity construction of the communities take place. Inevitably, these are spaces of loss and erosion, places of leveling and compromise where deviation, exception, and free will do not rage. More info
Gonçalo Barreiros, ___, 2023 (detail). Painted iron. 135 x 217 x 0,4 cm. Unique
Her practice circumscribes both visual and aural in the form of sculpture, collective walks, video installations, and printed matter.
A selection of her exhibitions and projects includes: I am Molten Matter (solo show) S.M.A.K. Museum, Ghent (2021); Nothing is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation, curated by Anna Daneri and Lorenzo Giusti, GAMeC Museum, Bergamo (2021); Strange Attractor, curated by Margarida Mendes, Pavilhão Branco, Lisboa (2021); Mutações. The Last Poet (solo show), curated by Pedro Lapa, Museum Colecção Berardo, Lisbon (2020); We do not work alone (solo project), Fiorucci Art Trust, London (2019); 11a Biennal D’Art Leandre Cristòfol, curated by Julia Morandeira, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida (2019); De Collectie (1). Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2019); The sun lovers (solo show), Tenderpixel, London (2018); Transmissions from the Etherspace, curated by João Laia, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2017); I will go where I don’t belong / Volcano Extravaganza, curated by Milovan Farronato and Camille Henrot, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli (2016); I forgot to go to school yesterday (solo show), Kunsthalle Lissabon and Kunsthalle Tropical, Iceland (2016); Lichens Never Lie (solo show), La Criée Centre for Contemporary Art, Rennes (2016); The lynx knows no boundaries, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris (2015); Europe, Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2014).
John Wood (b.1969, Hong Kong) and Paul Harrison (b.1966, Wolverhampton) make things that move and things that don’t, things that are flat and things that are not, things that are mildly amusing and things that are definitely not. They make works that form a kind of reference manual for how to do, make, build, or draw things that you probably never want to do, make, build, or draw. They do it for you. Even though you don’t need them to. This attempt to compile an encyclopaedia of the everyday, started in 1993 after they met at art college.
Current exhibition at the gallery: Objects Daniel Gustav Cramer
21 September – 4 November 2023 Online Viewing Room
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On view in London Céline Condorelli: Pentimenti (The Corrections) 2023 National Gallery Artist in Residence
The National Gallery, London
13 September 2022 – 7 January 2024 Online Viewing Room
Exhibition view: Céline Condorelli: Pentimenti (The Corrections), 2023 National Gallery Artist in Residence, The National Gallery, London, 202
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