Naturalítica e Hierbabuenas
Ana Maria Tavares
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It is with great pleasure that we present Ana Maria Tavares’ fourth solo exhibition at Galeria Silvia Cintra + Box 4. Naturalítica e Hierbabuenas opens to the public on November 29th, from 7pm to 10pm. In this show specially designed for the gallery, the artist invents an artificial landscape through the microscopic magnification of granite. She expands the vocabulary of her interventions even further, bringing a curious opposition to the exhibition. On the one hand, the nature of the stones transformed into a phenomenon related to fire, typical of magmas, takes shape to speak of a vision of the future that is approaching, of the calamities of global warming, without giving way to pessimism. In his visions, nature – made of granite, acrylic, polished or colored stainless steel, and digital photomontages – is regenerated and marked by an even more radical palette, which transforms the original granite into horizontal fields with a fiery, liquid appearance.
On the other hand, the Hierbabuenas – a kind of light vegetation, made of crystal acrylic and multicolored stainless steel – present the freshness and power of a nature that is still alive and self-regulating, spreading out and disorderly occupying the wall space. Tavares draws on digital processes, industrial production and craftsmanship, even with industrial materials, creating perceptive fields from the transformation of solid granite matter into a liquid flow similar to magmatic movements. The combination of colored stainless steel and acrylic cris
The group of works on display also includes new pieces from the “Prismatic Disjunction” series, begun in 2018, in which the materials are formed into regular modules arranged side by side to build a context of analogies and contrasts between elements from nature and those benefited by industry. The artist designs the meeting of different materials in a rhythmic composition of works that make up a horizontal path, at eye level, reminding us that every view is just a fragment and temporal cut-out of an invented world. As always, Ana Maria Tavares’ works demand a lot from the subject and, in this case, the movement of the eyes and the observer’s body is put on alert: you have to get very close to the works in order to perceive the subtleties of a microscopic and unknown universe that presents itself and hides in the works.
Useful information
Opening
November 29, 2023
Exhibition period
November 29, 2023 a
January 26, 2024,
Monday to Friday: 10-19h
Saturday: 12-16h
Closed on Sundays.