Amparo Sard Exhibition

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Spanish artist Amparo Sard uses a very unique form of physical pointillism to build an intricate pixilated image/narrative. By perforating the sheet of paper with thousands of pinholes using techniques borrowed and modified from fresco, the result is a wonderful and subtle white on white image - literally from within and through the sheet of paper. For her new body of work, Sard has added a think black component to some of her works on paper. It is made of rubber and silica. Amparo Sard stated in 2006 that her papers, obsessively pierced with pins, could be regarded from two perspectives; on the one hand, the elements purely shown (water, suitcase, tube, chair, branch, fly or woman) allow everyone to make their own free interpretation, and on the other hand, there is a subliminal language that connects the search for beauty to that which is sinister. She pursues the double, the mirror, the other side, and the mystery of everyday actions as parallel realities that never mix. In this work, we have two realities, the one represented by the voids created from perforating the white paper, and another reality, one represented with black matter. The immateriality of the perforated drawings, juxtaposed with dark paint, gives physicality to the shadows. According to Sard, “The visions of our inner self cast unexplored shadows, that despite invisibility, are essential elements of the human spirit”.

Amparo Sard was born in Mallorca in 1973. She has a Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, where she currently is a Professor. She has been granted amongst others, the Deutsche Bank International Award in 2000. The artist lives and works between Barcelona and Mallorca. Sard’s artworks can be found in numerous notable collections,such as the MoMa,New York; Guggenheim,New York; Deutsche Bank Berlin & New York, amongst many other institutional and private collections. Sard’s recent institutional projects are La Otra (The Other), presented in the ABC Museum, Madrid,2013; Pareidolia at Es Baluard Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Mallorca,2013; In the spring of 2015 Sard will open a major solo show at the Museo d’arte contemporanea (Macro museum) in Rome.

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from February 28, 2015 to April 05, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-02-28 from 18:00 to 20:00

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Amparo Sard

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