Luisa Strina is pleased to present One and a few chairs / Camouflages, an unprecedented exhibition that brings together works by the artist Cildo Meireles, revisiting a series of projects conceived by the artist in the 1980s and 1990s. Scheduled to open on October 3, the exhibition will remain on display until November 23, 2024.
First performed at the Lelong Gallery in New York, the installation One and Seven Chairs (1997) pays homage to the artist Joseph Kosuth. Composed of eight elements made from different materials and techniques – in addition to a solid wood chair – the installation includes 110 sheets of glass that form a tower, the interior of which, in turn, reflects the image of another chair, created from 1.100 canvases painted with acrylic paint.
The chair reappears in the Camouflage series, this time accompanied by a bench, a parasol, an umbrella, a stretcher and tents. “This part of the exhibition, which I call Camouflage, would have another name: Ground Painting. Because all the works are placed on it,” explains Cildo Meirelles.
Also resting on the floor of the exhibition space is a set of hyper-realistic paintings created by the artist using only white brushstrokes on a blue background. Épuras, the mathematical concept that gives the series its title, are geometric and two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional forms. Two Épuras accompanied by two studies on chairs ultimately convey Cildo Meireles' artistic thought, connecting painting to mathematical rationality, where the artist uses descriptive geometry as a constitutive tool for the work, using two perpendicular planes where two views of the object are represented, one frontal and the other from above.
One and a few chairs/camouflages began to be produced in 2020, totaling 13 works in which Cildo resumes the practice of painting, in reverence to his great masters, among them the Brazilian Alfredo Volpi.
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Exhibitions | One and a few chairs / Camouflages
From October 03rd to November 23st
Monday to Friday from 10:19 to 10:17, Saturday from XNUMX:XNUMX to XNUMX:XNUMX
