{"id":2849,"date":"2014-05-20T17:05:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2018-03-15T00:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:51:54","slug":"venezuelan-artist-mercedes-elena-gonzalez-at-henrique-faria-fine-arts-june-26th-6-9pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/venezuelan-artist-mercedes-elena-gonzalez-at-henrique-faria-fine-arts-june-26th-6-9pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan Artist Mercedes Elena Gonzalez at Henrique Faria Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EDUARDO SANTIERE: Inter-Spaces<\/h3>\n

MERCEDES ELENA GONZ\u00c1LEZ: September 1955<\/h3>\n

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, 6-9 pm
\nExhibition runs through Friday, August 1, 2014
\nGallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11-6 pm
\nSummer Hours: Monday to Friday 11-6 pm, starting the week of June 30<\/p>\n

Henrique Faria Fine Art is pleased to present two concurrent exhibitions: Inter-Spaces and September 1955, featuring works\u00a0by Eduardo Santiere and Mercedes Elena Gonz\u00e1lez, respectively. Gonz\u00e1lez uses drawing as a means to investigate the\u00a0relationship between the hopeful aesthetics of Venezuelan modernism of the 1950s and the resulting disappointments\u00a0delivered by the country\u2019s history and politics. Eduardo Santiere\u2019s drawings use paper as a springboard for imagining a\u00a0distant and uncertain future, where playful, dream-like forms interact with biomorphic constellations and aggregations. The\u00a0techniques employed by these artists are purposefully channeled, and serve to not only portray, but also embody the\u00a0themes infused into the work.<\/p>\n

In envisioning futuristic, science fiction landscapes, Eduardo Santiere, in exacting detail, builds the composition up from the\u00a0paper itself. For some works he applies a technique that he has termed \u201cscratching\u201d: manipulating the surface of the paper\u00a0as if it were a bas-relief sculpture, Santiere creates delicate scratches, stipples, tears and mounds. In Untitled (First Psycho)\u00a0(2013), a variety of markings intermingle with sumptuously colored shapes made by colored pencil and graphite. With such\u00a0heightened detail, the viewer loses sense of scale and becomes lost in a work that could represent a cluster of galaxies or a\u00a0microverse of single-celled organisms. Santiere\u2019s interest in depicting the abstract is further seen in his Symphonies series.\u00a0Utilizing the paper as if it were a sheet of music, Santiere plays with the placement of \u201cnotes\u201d, or dots of color defined by a\u00a0scratched edge, around the paper: he proposes new chords and progressions that suggest a richly textured sound that can\u00a0be heard within the viewer\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

Mercedes Elena Gonz\u00e1lez, in her series of works inspired by the Venezuelan art and architecture magazine Integral from\u00a0September 1955, is also constructing a kind of abstract landscape, but it is composed of what Juan Ledezma calls a\u00a0\u201cmelancholy geometry\u201d of pieces from Venezuela\u2019s past. When modernist art and thought arrived in Venezuela in the mid\u00a020th century, it encouraged the country\u2019s youth to envision a future full of cultural, social and economic progress. When the\u00a0government failed to turn thoughts into practice, the forms that once symbolized revitalization became reminders of empty\u00a0promises. September 1955 (2013) and Studies for September 1955 (2014) are series that reflect Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s coming to\u00a0terms with reality and her shattered dreams for a better Venezuela. In these series, dark, spindly branch forms creep out\u00a0from beyond the image frame, penetrating into interlocking shapes and subtly destroying their delicate harmony.<\/p>\n

While these two shows represent different approaches to drawing, they both use it as the technique with which deeper ideas\u00a0and subjects are explored and represented, and the viewer is transported to different places in time and space.<\/p>\n

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For more information visit Henrique Faria Fine Arts\u00a0<\/a>
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