Valeska Soares Exhibition
Eleven Rivington
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Eleven Rivington presents a solo exhibition of new work by gallery artist Valeska Soares. The exhibition is concurrently on view with an exhibition of works from the same series at Galeria Fortes Vilaça in Sao Paulo.
Three large-scale works on linen - selected from a larger series titled 'Bindings' - will occupy the three walls of the gallery space. These paintings - constructions of vintage dust jackets and hardcover books applied onto unprimed Belgian linen - behave not only as compositions but also as color and language indexes. The paper jackets and covers - culled and arranged in a constructivist manner in grids - come from the artist's vast collection of antique and first edition books. As used in the paintings they become non-hierarchical and free to interact with one another. As the viewer encounters each canvas, relationships inevitably form between the dozens of disparate titles within each composition; a different narrative emerges depending on how the viewer reads each painting. Though at first sight they appear as an exercise in chromatic and formal synergy, the readymade materials imbue the arrangements with sensuality familiar to Soares¹ larger practice and expand her interest in narrative and fiction.
A second body of work, titled Edits, will accompany the paintings. The artist reproduces pages from Roland Barthes¹ A Lover¹s Discourse and masks
large portions of the text with black volumes, revealing a kind of concrete poetry personal to the artist. Edits is an analytical exploration of text as image meant to complement the more synthetic process of the 'Bindings¹ series.
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Schedule
from February 16, 2012 to March 18, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-02-16 from 18:00 to 20:00