Carlos Vergara - Sudário
12/15/2013 — 02/23/2014
Museu de Arte Contemporânea – MAC, Niterói, RJ
Using a practice already present in his work, monotype, Carlos Vergara prints on scarves traces of severeal areas where he passed along his career. In the exhibition Shroud at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, are presented works carried out in places like India, Cappadocia, Kazakhstan, London, Pantanal, São Miguel das Missões and Salvador. In addition to the scarves, the exhibition consists of paintings, photographs worked in real and virtual 3D, photographs, monotypes in large format, video and installations. In the courtyard of the museum, are about 30 sculptures of Freedom project carried out with photographs and barred doors cells collected in the wreckage of the Frei Caneca Penitentiary.
The exhibition addresses, therefore, one of the fundamental features in the artist production: an artistic practice primarily accomplished by printing traces that gives the poetics of displacement and appropriation of places visited. “This is possible by my source on condition of transience, without ceasing to considering interpersonal relationships built in the process, which became important in the chain of my poetrya”, says the artist. Throughout this poetics of displacement and for more than five decades of artistic life, Carlos Vergara accumulated experience and intensive research in materials and work techniques. This exhibition is an invitation to travel and imagination.
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