Sebastian Bremer na Galeria Leme

Mas Notre Dame de Vie, 2013                                     SEBASTIAAN BREMER | WHO'S AFRAID OF RED, YELLOW AND BLUE Abertura: 8 de maio A Galeria Leme apresenta a exposição individual "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue" do artista Sebastiaan Bremer. A exposição, caprichosamente intitulada, traz colagens fotográficas de pequena escala nas quais Bremer interfere com diferentes tipos de mídia. O título da exposição faz referência à pintura homônima de Barnett Newman, ícone da Arte Moderna que, em 1986, foi cortada com um estilete e irreparavelmente destruída durante o período no qual esteve exposta no Stedelijk Museum, em Amsterdã. Os novos trabalhos de Bremer, que literalmente arranham a superfície de mestres modernistas, dialogam com este legado de destruição, porém utilizando sua técnica de corte como um meio de adentrar e se engajar com as pinturas e fotografias originais. Ao invés de se estabelecerem como crítica, os trabalhos herdam as linhas e pinceladas de artistas de épocas anteriores com a intenção de criar algo novo, ultrapassando os limites de estilo e tempo. Neste novo corpo de trabalhos Bremer utiliza sua técnica característica de pintar e arranhar sobre fotografias de sua autoria, mas também agrega novos processos, tanto na imagem como em sua maneira de interferir. Colagens em sentido amplo, com o empenho de uma maior variedade de ferramentas, mídias e referências artísticas, são agora objetos de seu olhar artístico. Nestes trabalhos o artista montou, digitalmente, em camadas, imagens de nús e interiores de estúdios feitos por Bill Brandt e Brassaï, partes de pinturas de Picasso e Matisse, e suas próprias fotografias. Nestas colagens Bremer utilizou caneta, tinta, nanquim e faca, cortando através da emulsão enquanto as marcas de desenho e pintura pareciam se espremer para dentro das obras. Um nu de Brandt, por exemplo, se integra com as faces de duas mulheres pintadas por Picasso; sobreposta com nanquim e cortes de faca, a nova mulher configurada exala poder, reminiscente da Deusa Ísis e da Vênus de Willendorf. As marcas feitas por Bremer diminuem as fronteiras entre suas diversas fontes de referência, a união de múltiplas camadas, estilos e formas de expressão. Sobre o artista: Sebastiaan Bremer (Amsterdam, 1970). Lives and works in New York, USA. Suas exposições recentes incluem: "Eyes", Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurique, Suíça (2012); "Egmont Revisited", Hales Gallery, Londres, Reino Unido (2012); "Nudes and Revolutions", Edwynn Houk Gallery, Nova York, EUA (2011) e 'Invasões Holandesas", Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brasil (2010). Seu trabalho está nas coleções do Museum of Modern Art (Nova York), Victoria & Albert Museum (Londres) a Los Angeles County Museum of Art, entre outras, e já foi exibido em exposições coletivas que incluem "Photography is Magic!", Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Coreia (2012); "Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project", Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, EUA (20011); "Re-Acession: For Sale by Owner", FLAG Art Foundation, Nova York, EUA (2009); "The Photograph as Canvas", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporar y Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, EUA (2007)"; “Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing”, Tate Modern, Londres, Reino Unido (2004); e“Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity”, MoMA PS1, Nova York, EUA (2004). Abertura: 8 de maio – 19h Até 8 de junho, 2013 Av. Valdemar Ferreira, 130 São Paulo | Brasil Seg - Sex 10h – 19h Sab 10h – 17h +55 11 3093.8184 info@galerialeme.com www.galerialeme.com SEBASTIAAN BREMER | WHO'S AFRAID OF RED, YELLOW AND BLUE Opening: May 8th Galeria Leme is pleased to announce an individual exhibition of recent works by Sebastiaan Bremer. The exhibition, whimsically titled “Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue”, features small-scale photographic collages on which Bremer has interfered with different media. The exhibition title references Barnett Newman’s painting of the same name, a high point of Modernist art, which in 1986 was slashed with a box-cutter and irreparably destroyed while it hung in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. Bremer’s new works, literally scratching into the surfaces of Modernist masters, engages with this legacy of destruction, yet the artist uses his cutting technique as a means of entering into and engaging with the original paintings and photographs. Rather than functioning as critique, the works inhabit the lines and brushstrokes of past artists in order to make something new, bridging the boundaries of style and time. In this new body of work, Bremer uses his signature technique of painting on his own photographs of his own, but he also experiments with newapproaches, both in the images in which he interferes and in the methods he employs. Collages in the broadest sense, the new works feature a broader variety of tools, media and artistic references. Bremer has digitally layered and blended images of nudes and studio interiors by Bill Brandt and Brassaï, bits of paintings by Picasso and Matisse, and his own personal photographs. On these collages, Bremer has employed pen, paint, ink and knife, slicing through the emulsion while the drawn and painted marks squeeze themselves into the works. A Brandt nude, for instance, merges with the faces of two women painted by Picasso; overlaid with ink and knife cuts, the composite woman exudes power, reminiscent of the goddess Isis and the Venus of Willendorf. Bremer’s mark-making collapses the borders between his various source images, suturing together multiple layers, styles, and modes of expression. About the artist: Sebastiaan Bremer (Amsterdam, 1970). Lives and works in New York, USA. His recent solo exhibitions include: “Eyes”, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (2012); “Egmont Revisited”, Hales Gallery, London, UK (2012); “Nudes and Revolutions”, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York (2011); and “Invasões Holandesas”, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil (2010). Bremer’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Victoria & Albert (London), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others, and has been exhibited in group shows including “Photography is Magic!”, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea (2012); “Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project”, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (2011); “Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner”, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (2009); “The Photograph as Canvas”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA (2007); “Pin-U p: Contemporary Collage and Drawing”, Tate Modern, London, UK (2004); and “Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity”, MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2004). Opening: May 8th – 7 pm Until June 8th, 2013 Av. Valdemar Ferreira, 130 São Paulo | Brasil Mon - Fri 10 am – 7 pm Sat 10 am – 5pm +55 11 3093.8184 info@galerialeme.com www.galerialeme.com