“Draw a Line to Make a Landscape” Exhibition

“Draw a Line to Make a Landscape” Exhibition

Alexander and Bonin

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Madragoa will present Draw a Line to Make a Landscape, a group exhibition with works by Adrián Balseca, Sara Chang Yan, and Renato Leotta. Common to the works included in this exhibition is the use of an essential mark-making sign—the line—to depict a natural environment without depriving it of its essence.

Through the practice of drawing, Sara Chang Yan charts energies, sensitive and mental elements conveyed by a landscape, translating them into minimal signs that settle on sheets of paper. Hanged from the ceiling, Chang Yan’s drawings float in the gallery space, acting as dynamic and vibrant entities that respond to the artist’s interventions and gestures.

Renato Leotta’s works recreate a rarefied marine landscape using elements that come from the seascape itself. A strip of crystallized sea salt on a blue canvas, obtained through the partial immersion of a piece of fabric in sea water, traces a line on the horizon. The upper parts of two terracotta sculptures were molded by using the shore itself as a cast. They retain fragments of shells, glass, and sand grains from their making, echoing the soft shape of beach dunes. The sculptures are conceived as containers, each one carrying a portable landscape.

In Adrián Balseca’s film, a line is drawn directly onto the landscape of a rubber plantation in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Workers pierce the bark of trees, from which a white resin slowly drips into small collecting vessels. Conveying the impression of a wounded landscape, Balseca’s work focuses on the values that underlie the exploitation of nature.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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