Marina Rheingantz: Terra Líquida, 05 Nov 2016 — 22 Dec 2016
Exhibitions

Marina Rheingantz: Terra Líquida

Fortes Vilaça hosts “Terra Líquida” (Liquid Earth), Marina Rheingantz’s fourth solo exhibition. The artist shows new paintings in various formats, from very large to quite small, which operate on the threshold of figuration. They are an abstract reduction of landscapes that allude to sea cliffs, mountain ranges, seas, marshes, fields and rural areas, visited and invented places that are detached from reality and embody the geometry and texture of the painting.

In Terra Líquida (2016), the piece that gives its name to the exhibition, a maze of puddles integrates the canvas and creates paths between recognizable elements that suggest an equestrian club. Measuring over four meters wide, it is the largest painting Marina has ever executed, what required her to constantly move towards and away from the piece while painting it, a movement which is then repeated by the viewer. The composition suggests a process of deconstructing an image with successive layers of paint, resulting in the reconstruction of a memory.

However, a closer look reveals the protagonism of the paint in the artist’s process. Marina does not pursue a narrative idea – instead, she deposits layers of robust strokes on the canvas, working the surface and paying close attention to the painting. While she is listening to the color and the paint, the image insinuates itself and the artist now moves on towards a possible narrative. The image is neither the beginning nor the end, it happens along the way.

In the paintings on linen from the series Bordados (Embroideries), the background colors receive a gridded treatment, similar to those embroidering fabrics, by making use of subtle alterations of hues and controlled strokes. Colored bars gently introduce new colors onto the work, while thick lines produce asymmetric patterns and suggestive expanded landscapes.

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