Adriana Varejão Exhibition
Lehmann Maupin (536 W 22nd Street)
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For Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão's third exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, she will present a new large-scale painting and works on paper. This will be Varejão's first gallery exhibition in four years and the first to include works on paper.
Using precise geometry and a serene monochrome palette, Varejão elaborates on her sauna series, which portrays the cold, tranquil interiors of these spaces. Previous works in the series have been notable for their emptiness, and while the new works maintain the minimalism and distance of previous works, the paintings and drawings in this exhibition are brought to life by rippling water and rays of sunlight.
Varejão's diversity of disciplines includes painting, sculpture, installation and photography through which she mines the cultural histories of colonial Brazil in conjunction with the histories of painting. Past bodies of work have included large Portuguese tiles that utilize fabrication methods barred from export outside of the country, and her Ruína de Charque series presents modern day architectural ruins comprised of tiles and visceral exposed flesh. Referencing the history of painting, her sauna series utilizes the refined grid structure of Modernism and hints of Cubism.
[Image: Adriana Varejão "O Iluminado" (2009) oil on linen, 90.55 x 220.47 in.]
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Schedule
from May 07, 2009 to July 10, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-05-07 from 18:00 to 20:00